Nikol G. Alexander-Floyd

Nikol G. Alexander-Floyd is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work and teaching integrates the study of politics, law, women's studies, and Black studies. Trained as a lawyer and political scientist, she is currently an Assistant Professor of Women's Studies at Virginia Tech in the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, where she teaches courses on race, gender, and the law, Black women in the U.S., and feminist theory. Her current research explores the gender politics of contemporary Black nationalism, and has appeared in such journals as Frontiers, the International Journal of Africana Studies, and Meridians. She is Co-Founder, along with Rose Harris, of the Association for the Study of Black Women in Politics, and her first book, Gender, Race, and Nationalism in Contemporary Black Politics, will be published with Palgrave Macmillan.