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Michelle Boyd is a scholar, writer, and audio producer who makes text and audio pieces about race, class, immigration, and cities. She is the author of the ethnography Jim Crow Nostalgia: Reconstructing Race in Bronzeville (2008), winner of the 2009 American Political Science Association's Race & Ethnicity Section Best Book Award. Her scholarship has also appeared in Urban Affairs Review, City & Society, and Journal of Urban Affairs and has received Best Paper awards from the Urban Affairs Association and the National Conference of Black Political Scientists.
Michelle’s audio and multimedia work have appeared at the Sullivan Galleries at Chicago's School of the Art Institute, on WAMC's The 51%, in Lux/Lumina, and several community organizations in Portland, OR. She is a member of Groundswell, a network of artists and activists using narrative to support movement building and social change. Her most recent Groundswell project, “Como un mapa en mi piel,” is a 6-minute audio collage produced in collaboration with the Amamantar y Migrar Oral History Project. |
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When she's not writing, she's helping scholars discover who they are as writers. In 2011 she cofounded and began coaching WriteOut! A Dissertation Writing Retreat at the University of Illinois, Chicago. Three years later she followed her heart out of academia and founded InkWell Academic Writing Retreats where she helps scholars become the writer they already are. For someone who dislikes social media, Michelle has developed an uncharacteristic fondness for Instagram. Find her there or on her blog, offering inspiration and practical advice about the writing life.
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