Trica Keaton earned her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 2001 in the interdisciplinary field of Education, specializing in African Diaspora Studies and Sociology. Professor Keaton also pursued graduate study in Sociology at the Université de Paris V and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris where she was also a visiting scholar. Additionally, she is a long-term Non-Resident Fellow of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University (2001-2007) and was a recipient of the highly competitive Chateaubriand Fellowship (1999-2000), offered by the Embassy of France. Her first book, Muslim Girls and the Other France: Race, Identity Politics, and Social Exclusion with a foreword by Manthia Diawara ( New York University), was published in 2006 by Indiana University Press. She is currently working on an anthology with Darlene Clark Hine ( Northwestern University) and Stephen Small ( University of California, Berkeley), titled Black Europe and the African Diaspora, which derives from an international symposium, similarly titled, that she co-convened with Darlene Clark Hine in 2006 at Northwestern University. Her research focuses on impact and politics of African and African origin (im)migration to the U.S.A. and parts of Western Europe as a means to foster a broader understanding of the complex and cosmopolitan positions that Blacks occupy, especially African Americans, in the grand narratives of international migration.

Education:

Ph.D. - University of California, Berkeley - Education (Interdisciplinary)

M.A.- Middlebury College -- French

B.A. - University of California, Los Angeles -- Linguistics and French

Doctoral Study - Université de la Sorbonne Paris V (René Descartes) École des Hautes Études en Science Sociales -- Sociology

Scholarly Works:

Muslim Girls and the Other France: Race, Identity Politics, and Social Exclusion Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2006

Black Europe and the African Diaspora , co-editor (Forthcoming)

“Interpellating “Black American Paris:” Migration Narratives of Inclusion and Social Race in the Other France” (Forthcoming)

2005. “Arrogant Assimilationism: National Identity Politics and African Origin, Muslim Girls in Other France.” Anthropology and Education Quarterly. 36(4):405-423.

2003. “Un Regard Afro-américain sur une 'Cité' de la Banlieue Parisienne: Les Courtillières.’ Agone: Sociologie, Histoire &Politique 29/30:121-133

Awards:

Chateaubriand Fellow, Embassy of France

Non-resident Fellow, The W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research Harvard University

The Project on African Expressive Traditions (POAET) Research Grant

Overseas Study Development Grant – “Black Paris” College of Arts & Sciences - Indiana University, Bloomington

Recent Courses:

AmSt 8920 Race the Power of an Illusion?: An (Inter)National and Comparative Exploration

AmSt 3920(Afro 3910 and Glos 3900) Black Paris-Paris Noir: The African Diaspora in Paris, France

Forthcoming Study Abroad: “Black Paris – Paris Noir”: The Black Presence in the City of Light