Dr. Libby Lewis

Libby Lewis earned a Ph.D. in African Diaspora Studies with a Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies from the University of California, Berkeley. Her research on the news media includes the U.S., United Kingdom, and South Africa. As a Fulbright-Hayes Scholar, she studied Zulu, to facilitate research on the television news media in South Africa. Dr. Lewis was awarded the 2018-2019 Bailey Fellowship through the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) American Communities Program. She was also awarded the 2018 Center for the Study of Genders and Sexualities (CSGS) Faculty Research Fellowship in support of her current project in the area of genders and sexualities at the intersections of race, ethnicity, class, and nation entitled, “Legitimizing Hate.”