Treva B. Lindsey

Treva B. Lindsey is an award-winning author, speaker, and Professor at The Ohio State University. She is the co-founder of Black Feminist Night School at Zora’s House and the founder of the Transformative Black Feminisms Initiative at OSU. Her most recent book, America Goddam: Violence, Black Women, and The Struggle for Justice (University of California Press) received a starred review from Kirkus Books, landed on several “Best of 2022” lists, has been a finalist and honorable mention for prestigious national awards, and was described as “required reading for all Americans.&rqduo; Her first book, Colored No More: Reinventing Black Womanhood in Washington D.C was a Choice 2017 “Outstanding Academic Title.” She has published in Feminist Scholar Online, Biography, The Journal of Pan-African Studies, Souls, African and Black Diaspora, the Journal of African American Studies, African American Review, the Journal of African American History, Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism, Urban Education, The Black Scholar, Feminist Studies, and Signs.

She is the recipient of several awards and fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. She was a 2020–2021 ACLS/Mellon Scholars and Society Fellow. She was the inaugural Equity for Women and Girls of Color Fellow at Harvard University (2016–2017). In 2022, she received the Ohio State University College of Arts and Sciences Mid-Career Faculty Excellence Award. Professor Lindsey also writes for and contributes to outlets such as Time, CNN, Al Jazeera, NBC, BET, Complex, Vox, The Root, Huffington Post, PopSugar, Billboard, Bustle, Teen Vogue, Grazia UK, The Grio, The Washington Post, Women’s Media Center, Zora, and Cosmopolitan.