Bio

Dr. Paula Ioanide is assistant professor at the Center for the Study of Culture, Race and Ethnicity, Ithaca College. She teaches courses in comparative race and ethnicity studies, race and sexual politics, immigration, prisons, and social justice movements.

Ioanide received her Ph.D. in History of Consciousness from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2008. Her research focuses on the ways cultural representations, policies, and practices cultivate public fantasies and feelings that support gendered racism in the post-civil rights era. Ioanide also investigates histories and epistemologies that generate cultures of ethical witnessing, dignity and self-determination while encouraging affective alignments with social justice.

Ioanide's publications include, "The Story of Abner Louima: Cultural Fantasies, Gendered Racial Violence, and the Ethical Witness" in The Journal of Haitian Studies Vol. 13, No. 1 (Spring 2007): 4-26; "A Response to Ben Pitcher's 'Obama and the Politics of Blackness: Antiracism in the 'post-black' Conjuncture'" in Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society (Vol. 12:4, Fall 2010); and "The Alchemy of Race & Affect: 'White Innocence' and Public Secrecy in the Post-Civil Rights Era" in Kalfou: A Journal of Comparative and Relational Ethnic Studies (forthcoming Fall 2011). Ioanide is currently working on her book manuscript titled, Racial Fantasies and Feelings: Affective Economies in the Post-Civil Rights Era.