Tracy Denean Sharpley-Whiting is a feminist scholar, comparative Europeanist, and Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Distinguished Professor of Humanities in the Departments of African American and Diaspora Studies and French and Italian at Vanderbilt University where she served as the inaugural Vice Provost of Arts, Libraries, and Global Engagement as well as Director of the Callie House Research Center for the Study of Global Black Cultures and Politics. She served as Associate Provost for Academic Advancement from October 2021-June 2022. She was also the Chair of African American and Diaspora Studies until August 2022. She is editor of ''The Speech: Race and Barack Obama's "A More Perfect Union"'', and editor of the academic journal ''Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International''. She is also series co-editor of "Philosophy and Race" (SUNY Press) with philosopher Robert Bernasconi.
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