AAAS Faculty Member Ashley Smith-Purviance has recently co-authored and published a research article in the International Journal of Qualitative Research. Titled Where We Live and Be: (Re)Turning to Black Girlhood for Project-Praxes of Otherworld-Making in Educational Research, Dr. Smith-Purviance argues that the humanity and mattering of Black people have always lived in Black girlhood, but the potentiality of Black girlhood as a creative space for designing Black approaches in educational research has yet to be fully realized. The full article is open-access and available at the Journal's website. 

Ashley L. Smith-Purviance is an assistant Professor in the Departments of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and African American and African Studies at The Ohio State University. Dr. Smith-Purviance’s scholarship critically analyzes how social structures, educational policies, and institutions shape and reproduce harmful inequalities for Black women and girls.