Nneka D. Dennie is a Black feminist scholar with specializations in nineteenth- and twentieth-century African American History. Her research examines Black intellectual thought with an emphasis on nineteenth-century African American women. She is assistant professor of history at Washington and Lee University. Dennie also co-founded the Black Women’s Studies Association.
Her first book, Mary Ann Shadd Cary: Essential Writings of a Nineteenth-Century Black Radical Feminist, was published by Oxford University Press in 2023. Her monograph, Redefining Radicalism: Black Women Intellectuals in the Nineteenth Century, is a study of early Black radical thought. In 2024, Dennie was one of ten recipients nationwide of the Mellon Emerging Faculty Leaders Award from the Institute of Citizens and Scholars. Her work has been supported by the Center for Black Digital Research at Pennsylvania State University, as well as a Consortium for Faculty Diversity postdoctoral fellowship at Davidson College and the MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences Diversity Predoctoral Fellowship. Dennie’s work has been published in Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International; Feminist Studies; Atlantic Studies: Global Currents; Slate; and more.
