Dayo F. Gore, Ph.D.

Dr. Dayo F. Gore is an associate professor of Black Studies at Georgetown University. Prior to joining the department, she was an Associate Professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies and the Critical Gender Studies program at the University of California, San Diego and Chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies and founding Director of the Black Studies Project at UCSD. Her research interests include black women’s intellectual history; 20th-century U.S. political and cultural activism; African American and African Diasporic politics, and gender and sexuality studies. She earned a Ph.D. in History from New York University and has previously taught at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Dr. Gore is the author of Radicalism at the Crossroads: African American Women Activists in the Cold War which charts the political commitments and strategic leadership of a network of black women radicals operating within the U.S. left from the 1930s through the 1960s. She is also the editor (with Jeanne Theoharis and Komozi Woodard) of “Want to Start A Revolution?” Radical Women in the Black Freedom Struggle; co-editor with Sarah Haley and Prudence Cumberbatch of a special issue of Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society, titled “Black Women Labor: Economics, Culture and Politics” (January–March 2016) and most recently contributed an article to the collection We Could Turn this Whole World Over: Black Women’s Internationalism in the Twentieth Century from University of Illinois Press (2018). Her work has been supported by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard University and the Tamiment Library and Robert Wagner Labor Archives at New York University. Dr. Gore is currently working on a book-length study of black women’s transnational travels and activism in the long twentieth century, forthcoming from Princeton University Press as part of its America in the World series.