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Aria S. Halliday, Ph.D. is Associate Professor in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies and program in African American and Africana Studies at the University of Kentucky.
Dr. Halliday specializes in cultural constructions of black girlhood and womanhood in material, visual, and digital culture in the 20th and 21st centuries. Her interdisciplinary interests include in sexuality, Black feminism, and radicalism in Black popular culture in the United States and the Caribbean. She is the editor of The Black Girlhood Studies Collection (Women’s Press, 2019) and co-editor of volume 7, a special issue on hip-hop feminism, in Journal of Hip Hop Studies (2020). Her articles and chapters have been published in Cultural Studies, Departures in Critical Qualitative Research, Girlhood Studies, Palimpsest, and SOULS, as well as in edited volumes such as Against A Sharp White Background: Infrastructures of African American Print, Bloomsbury Handbook of Theories in Childhood Studies, and The Routledge Companion to Girls' Studies. Her most recent book, Buy Black: How Black Women Transformed US Pop Culture was published in 2022 by the University of Illinois Press.
Dr. Halliday has won numerous awards and fellowships, including the Institute for Citizens and Scholars Career Enhancement Fellowship for Junior Faculty (2020-2021), the University of Kentucky CURATE award (2022), and the University of Texas Austin Donald D. Harrington Faculty Fellowship (2022-2023). Her article, "Twerk Sumn!: Theorizing Black Girl Epistemology in the Body," won the 2021 Stuart Hall Foundation x Cultural Studies Award.
Dr. Halliday served as co-chair and chair of the Girls’ and Girls Studies Caucus at the National Women’s Studies Association 2016-2022. She is co-founder of Digital Black Girls, a digital humanities archive celebrating Black girls' cultural production and innovation. She regularly engages in public scholarship through editorials and podcast interviews, as well as service as a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated.
Research Interests
20th & 21st Century Black Visual and Material Culture
Black Feminist and Womanist Theories
Black Girlhood Studies
New Media Studies & Digital Humanities
Autobiography and Performance of Identity
Black Radicalism & Resistance
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Education/Academic qualification
Doctor of Philosophy, Purdue University
2017
External positions
Assistant Professor, University of New Hampshire Durham
Aug 2017 → May 2020
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Projects & Grants
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Digital Black Girls (DBG)- OVPR CURATE Program
Halliday, A. (PI)
Office of the Vice President for Research
5/1/21 → 4/30/22
Project: Research project
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Career Enhancement Fellowships for Junior Faculty
Halliday, A. (PI)
Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
8/1/20 → 8/1/21
Project: Research project
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Black Girls and How We Fail Them
Halliday, A., Feb 2025, (Accepted/In press) Chapel Hill. 200 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
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Editors’ introduction: remembering blackly
Halliday, A. & Greene Wade, A., 2024, In: Cultural Studies. 38, 3, p. 357-363 7 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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For the love of black girls: Building black girlhood studies as a lifejacket
Halliday, A. S., Apr 30 2024, The Routledge Companion to Girls' Studies. p. 44-51 8 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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From #HotGirlSummer to #HotNerdFall: Megan Thee Stallion, ratchet-respectability, and the Socioeducational identities of Black girls/women
Payne, A. N. & Halliday, A. S., 2023, In: Gender and Education. 35, 6-7, p. 521-536 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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MID-TWERK AND MID-LAUGH
Brown, R. N. & Halliday, A. S., Jan 1 2023, Investing in the Educational Success of Black Women and Girls. p. 11-22 12 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Prizes
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Career Enhancement Fellowship/Junior Faculty Fellowship
Halliday, A. (Recipient), 2020
Prize: Honorary award
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