Katherine McKittrick

Geographer Katherine McKittrick is a leader in black feminist thought and Black geographies, focusing on the creative, embodied, and intellectual spaces of the African diaspora. Her first book explored how social justice emerges in Black creative texts, especially music, fiction, poetry, and visual art. Later work explores Black geographies and the politics of place—significantly, her reading of “blackness” in colonial archives uncovers instances of black freedom. By conceptualizing Black diasporic practices as spatialized acts of survival, she introduces novel methodological approaches to Atlantic history. McKittrick was elected to the Royal Society of Canada College of New Scholars in 2017.