Tracy Denean Sharpley-Whiting

Tracy Denean Sharpley-Whiting is a feminist scholar and Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Distinguished Professor of French in the Department of French and Italian at Vanderbilt University where she serves as Vice Provost of Arts and Libraries as well as Director of the Callie House Research Center for the Study of Global Black Cultures and Politics. She served as Associate Provost for Academic Advancement from October 2021-June 2022. She was also the Chair of African American and Diaspora Studies until August 2022. She is editor of ''The Speech: Race and Barack Obama's "A More Perfect Union"'', and editor of the academic journal ''Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International''. She is also series co-editor of "Philosophy and Race" (SUNY Press) with philosopher Robert Bernasconi. Provided by Wikipedia