Chinyere Oparah
Professor
Full-Time Faculty
Expertise
- Ethnic studies
- Sociology of race and ethnicity
- Black feminist theory and praxis
- Intersectionality
Research Areas
- Black maternal health
- BIPOC women's and trans activism
- Race, gender and leadership
- Prison industrial complex abolition
- Research justice
Appointments
- Canada Research Chair in Social Justice, University of Toronto
- Fellow, National Equity Project
Education
- University of Warwick, PhD in Sociology, 1997
- University of Warwick, MA, Race and Ethnic Relations, 1994
- University of Cambridge, MA, Modern and Medieval Languages, 1994
- Cambridge University, BA, Modern and Medieval Languages, 1989
Prior Experience
- Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs, University of San Francisco
- Provost and Dean of the Faculty, Mills College
- Associate Provost, Mills College
- Professor, Ethnic Studies, Mills College
Awards & Distinctions
- Visionary of the Year Award, Maternal-Child Health Champion Awards, 2017
- Faculty Member of the Year, Mills College of Color Awards, 2012
- Sarlo Award for Excellence in Teaching, Mills College, 2009
- Eugene E. Trefethen Professorship for Excellence and Innovation in Scholarship, 2008
- Mary S. Metz Professorship for Excellence and Creativity in Teaching, 2007
Selected Publications
- Alicia D. Bonaparte and Oparah, Julia Chinyere. 2023. Birthing Justice: Black Women, Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2nd edition. New York: Routledge.
- Trenka, Jane Jeong, Julia Chinyere Oparah and Sun Yung Shin. 2021. Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption, 2nd edition. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
- Oparah, Julia Chinyere et al, 2018. Battling Over Birth: Black Women and the Crisis in Maternal Health Care. Amarillo, TX: Praeclarus Press.
- Sudbury, Julia and Margo Okazawa-Rey, 2009 (eds). Activist Scholarship: Antiracism, Feminism and Social Change. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers.
- Sudbury, Julia, 2005 (ed). Global Lockdown: Race, Gender and the Prison-Industrial Complex. New York: Routledge.