Assistant Professor education: PhD, Duke University phone: 573-884-9694 email: lindseytr@missouri.edu
Treva Lindsey received her Ph.D. in History and a Graduate Certificate in African and African American Studies from Duke University in 2010. Her research and teaching interests include U.S. women's history, black popular culture, black feminism, critical race and gender theory, and African diaspora studies.
Research Interests
Currently Treva is focusing on African American women's efforts to reshape prevailing gender and racial ideologies throughout the New Negro era. She builds upon recent scholarship that explores the interplay between black women's culture and political activism during the early twentieth century. Treva explores how black women contested white cultural hegemony, patriarchy, and racial and gender inequalities in urban spaces. New Negro women fashioned identities that recognized the complexity of their experiences in higher education, political engagement, beauty culture, and leisure pursuits. Central to her framing of New Negro women's culture are questions about how black women negotiated, challenged, and performed a culture of "respectability."
Treva's interest in the role of "respectability" in the lives of African American women extends to her research on black popular culture. In one forthcoming project "Push It Good, Push It Real Good: Precious and the Possibilities of Moving Towards a Hip Hop Feminist Visual Aesthetic," Treva uses film and fiction to examine the relationship between "respectability" and hip hop feminism. For another forthcoming project, Treva uses music videos of African American female entertainers such as Beyonce to critically consider the complexities of representing the black female erotic body. Ultimately, she looks forward to chronicling the history of hip hop soul and its role in the (de)construction of contemporary African American politics of respectability.
Treva Lindsey 
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