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Joshua Crutchfield - Fall 2024

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests:

  • Black Studies
  • 20th Century Black Freedom Movements
  • African American Women’s History
  • Carceral State Abolition
  • Black Digital Humanities

About:

Joshua L. Crutchfield is a scholar of 20th century black freedom movements, African American women’s history, black intellectual history, and abolition studies. He is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Black Studies at Northwestern University. His forthcoming project, Imprisoned Black Women Intellectuals, explores how Black Power-era black women political prisoners shaped contemporary forms of carceral state abolition.

Crutchfield’s writings have appeared in The Black Scholar, The Journal of African American History, Black Perspectives, Reviews in Digital Humanities, The Black Power Encyclopedia, and The Austin Chronicle.

His scholarship has been generously supported by the Harry Random Center and the Carrie Chapman Catt Prize for Women and Politics.