We are thrilled to announce that Keila Taylor has been awarded the prestigious Graduate School Presidential Dissertation Fellowship in Social Sciences for her dissertation, “‘Errybody Gotta Eat’: Mapping Black Queer Food Geographies.” Keila's work explores the power of food as an expression of Black being through the lens of Black queer life, employing interdisciplinary approaches from Black Feminist Studies, Black Geography, and Critical Food Studies.
Keila describes her dissertation as one that "transcends conventional ideas of the archive, considers the influence of racial and sexual spatial politics on local food geographies in Seattle, and questions sociopolitical conceptions of public dining spaces to reveal how Black Feminist geographic knowledge signals alternative patterns in our surroundings." Congratulations to Keila Taylor on this well-deserved recognition!