I am a scholar and educator who is interested in queering the archive

Candice Lyons is the Black Star Assistant Professor of Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she previously served as a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow in History and Black Studies Dissertation Scholar. Her research stages queer investigations into the types of stories it becomes possible to tell when the archive is approached without the base assumption of cishetero-normativity.

Research Interests

African American History

Black Queer Theory

Black Feminist Theory

Women’s History

Slave Narratives

Archival Materials

Gender and Sexuality

Slavery Studies