Resources by and about Historically Excluded Authors & Researchers
Note: This is by no means an exhaustive list. Just a brief resource guide to get you thinking about how to include scholars with different backgrounds and identities within your syllabi.
Disabled Writers & Researchers:
Dr. Alice Wong, Disability Studies
Dr. Rebekah Taussig, Disability Studies
Haben Girma, JD, Disability Rights Advocate
Melissa Blake, Writer, Disability Rights Advocate
Dr. Frances Ryan, Writer, Disability Rights Advocate
Dr. Eva Kittay, Feminist Philosophy & Disability Studies
Black Writers & Researchers:
Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson, Theoretical Physics
Dr. Kwame Anthony Appiah, Philosophy
Dr. Mary Frances Berry, History
Dr. Angela Davis, Philosophy, Critical Theory
Kimberlé W. Crenshaw, Jurisprudence, Critical Theory
Dr. Cornel West, Religion
Ta-Nehisi Coates, Cultural Criticism
Bell Hooks, Feminist Theory
Indigenous Writers & Researchers:
Dr. Jeremy A. Sablof, Anthropology
Dr. Adrienne J Keene, American Studies
Dr. Ruth Green, Social Work
Dr. Sheila Cote-Meek, Education
Dr. Kim Tallbear, Indigenous Studies
Dr. Cana uluak itchuaqiyaq, Technical Communication
Asian, Pacific Islander/ Asian American Writers & Researchers:
Erika Lee, American History
Sun Yung Shin, Literature
Junko Tabei, Environmental Studies
Chicano/Hispanic/Latinu Writers and Researchers:
Jason De León, Anthropology
Rudolfo Anaya, Literature
Nicole Hernandez Hammer, Environmental Science
Scarlin Hernandez, Aerospace Engineer
Susana Lopez Charreton, Virologist
Ynes Mexia, Botanist
Mario J. Molina, Chemist
Ellen Ochoa, Astronaut and Engineer
Adriana Ocampo, Geologist
Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski, Physicist
Lydia Villa-Komaroff, Biologist
LGBTQ+ Writers & Researchers:
Ruth Gates, marine biologist, and conservationist
Lauren Esposito, arachnologist
Judith Butler, Gender Studies
Jack J. Halberstam, Philosophy
Audre Lorde, Black, and Lesbian Feminism
Gloria Anzaldúa, Queer and Chicana Cultural Theory
Sandy Stone, Gender Studies
Writers and Researchers in White Studies & Race:
Jennifer Roth Gordon, Anthropology
Karen E. Fields, History & Political Science
Barbara J. Fields, History & Political Science
Loring Brace, Anthropology