Paula J. Giddings

Elizabeth A. Woodson 1922 Professor, Emerita, Africana Studies

Smith College

Paula J. Giddings, the Elizabeth A. Woodson 1922 Professor, Emerita, of Africana Studies at Smith College, is the author of four books: When and Where I Enter: The Impact on Black Women on Race and Sex in America; In Search of Sisterhood, Delta Sigma Theta and the Challenge of the Black Sorority Movement; Burning All Illusions, (editor) an anthology of articles on race published by the Nation magazine; and Ida, A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching. Ms. Giddings is a journalist, and former magazine and book editor. She is the editor emerita of Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism, a peer-reviewed journal that is housed at Smith and published by Duke University Press. Giddings has been a book editor at Random House and Howard University Press; a magazine editor and Paris Bureau Chief for Encore American and Worldwide News; and a journalist who has written on national and international issues for the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Jeune Afrique (Paris), The International Herald Tribute, and The Nation among other publications.