The Dept. of Marine Affairs welcomes our new Visiting Assistant Professor in Social Movements, U.S. Global Relations, and Race and Gender. Prof. Jessica Frazier is interested in researching and teaching about connections between social justice concerns and the history of coastal communities and coastal management.

 

Prof. Frazier’s current research interests include studying the development of coastal management projects over the course of twentieth century and asks how these projects have shaped racial and class compositions of coasts. She’s also interested in researching how gendered, racial, and class dynamics of coastal societies, including in surf culture and fishing communities, has changed over time.

 

Prof. Frazier earned a PhD in history from SUNY Binghamton. She is currently completing a book manuscript, “Cold War Social Movements: Gender, Race, and Peace during the Viet Nam War Era,” which takes a U.S. in the world approach to studying 1960s social movements. This project began as her dissertation, which was a finalist for a national prize in U.S. women’s history. While working on this project, she has also received two highly competitive writing fellowships as well as a number of research grants.

 

At URI, she looks forward to teaching on social movements and coastal societies in courses that consider gender, race, and class central categories of analysis.