Academic Editor, Third World Quarterly
Associate Professor and Chair of Africana Studies, Davidson College
Research interests:
International political economy, African politics, race, gender, Third World Feminism, international development
About
T.D. Harper-Shipman is an Associate Professor and Chair of Africana Studies at Davidson College. She received her B.A. in political science from Howard University and her PhD in political science from the University of Connecticut, where she also received Graduate Certificates in Human Rights and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. She is a Third World Feminist who studies the political economy of race and gender, with a focus on Africa. Her first book, Rethinking Ownership of Development in Africa (2019) was published by Routledge Press and examined the concept of ownership of development in Burkina Faso and Kenya. She has published in Third World Quarterly, Journal of Asian and African Studies, International Studies Review, and Philosophy and Global Affairs. She has also published in public-facing forums including, Africa is a country, The Global African Worker, and Pambazuka. Harper-Shipman has also spoken on podcasts including Guerilla History and New Dawn. Her second book, Unruly Fertility: Race, Development, and Decolonial Reproductive Politics (forthcoming with Stanford University Press), uses Senegal and North Carolina to demonstrate how reproductive health policies are essential to understanding international regimes for regulating resource distribution and recreating future stores of gendered and racially differentiated labor. Unruly Fertility attends to the innovative and unconventional forms of resistance that poor Black women use to decouple their productive and reproductive labor from state efforts to manage their fertility. She argues that these discreet forms of resistance establish new reproductive possibilities that scaffold a decolonial reproductive politic.
Contact: taharpershipman@davidson.edu
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