Dr. Paula Ioanide's research focuses on political-economic, social and cultural practices that reproduce and disrupt gendered racism in the post-civil rights era. Particularly, Ioanide investigates the "affective economies" of gendered racism--public fantasies and feelings about race and sexuality that help justify exploitation, exclusion and elimination.  Demonstrating that there is nothing inevitable or natural about affective economies that support gendered racism, Ioanide examines forms of "ethical witnessing:" acts and visions that secure dignity, self-determination and freedom. She is currently working on completing her book, Racial Fantasies and Feelings: Affective Economies in the Post-Civil Rights Era.

Prof. Ioanide teaches courses in comparative race & ethnicity studies at the Center for the Study of Culture, Race & Ethnicity.