Nicole Gipson

I am a Franco African American historian specializing in poverty in America in the 20th century and Black Studies. My interests are in the intersectionality of race, gender, class, social policy, housing precarity and homelessness, transnational feminisms, and postcolonial and decolonial theory. I completed my PhD in American Studies at the University of Manchester in 2020. I was an Emerging Scholar (2021-2022) in the Global Urban History Project (GUHP) mentorship program. I am currently an associate editor for the Journal of American Studies and a Teaching Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. I am currently collaborating with INOSAAR to write a roundtable for JAS entitled ‘A Roundtable on Transnational Approaches to Repair: The Case for Reparations’.

I draw on multidisciplinary methods and theoretical frameworks in the social sciences, particularly in the fields of sociology and political science. My goals are to obtain a macro-picture of the transformation of poverty in America over time to make larger claims which incorporate these macrostructures to create field-shaping paradigms such as my signature theory, the third ghetto.