Ashley L. Smith-Purviance, PhD
@alsmith_01
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Assistant Professor at The Ohio State University| 2022 NAEd/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow| Black Girlhood Scholar| Black Feminist| Chicagoan| DST 🔺| Loves to 🛼
Columbus, OH
Joined September 2014
I’m extremely happy to share that I signed a contract for my first book tentatively titled, (Un)Schooling Black Girls: Navigating Suburbia, Anti-Black-Girl Violence, and Mechanisms of School Survival with @UNC_Press & I get to work with the incredible @dawnd ! #BlackGirlhood
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Our 150th episode! A fantastic listen, Ashley talks with Patrice Douglass about gender, slavery, and the long horizon of racial violence. Thoughtful and compelling conversation, here or at your preferred stream: https://t.co/HlstS3gNsr
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Podcast Episode · The Black Studies Podcast · 07/30/2025 · 1h 1m
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New publication alert! Loved dreaming this work up alongside my sistas!! #BlackGirlhoodStudies
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So extremely happy for you Dr. Lesure!!! Congratulations!!! 🎉🎉🎉 So honored to know you friend & to witness this moment!! 💜
I officially defended my dissertation, Making Extraordinary Men: Race Leadership Education in a Nonprofit Collegiate Black Male Initiative. I am grateful to my committee for their support. Next stop: Visiting Assistant Professor of Education at Brown University!
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Students launched an encampment for Gaza at Ohio State University — the third largest university in the country. After police swept the camp this morning, students and community have returned to protest in full force.
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this is how the cops are preparing to engage with peaceful #OhioState protesters on South Oval.
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new announcement from cops on South Oval: disperse immediately or get arrested. Protesters have tightened their circle and are chanting, “long live Palestine” and “we are the revolution” loudly. #OhioState @SJPOSU
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I hope she saved her own life with the resignation.
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Yesterday was such a beautiful day! The love & support from Black women keeps me going & grounded. So grateful! Love yall!! 🥰💜💜💜
@alsmith_01 what a brilliant day experiencing you and Amy Meredith Cox! Just beautiful. Your book is going to help so many ppl. My heart and mind r still reverberating. I look way up to you both❤️❤️🌺 #BlackWomenScholars #Blackgirlhood #Unschooling
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NOW: Thousands call for a ceasefire in Gaza at a rally in Washington, DC 🎥 @BenjAlvarez1
https://t.co/hk3tMbLDwd
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70 killed by Israeli rockets while fleeing Gaza AS INSTRUCTED... reports CNN. Rafah crossing (1 of 2 ways out) w/ Egypt supposed to be open & is not. Israel has cut off fuel, water and food. This is murder. Who could justify this?!!
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Marc Lamont Hill puts every interviewer to shame by forcing Israels former Foreign Minister to admit that Israel is deliberately starving and bombing a captive civilian population to get what they want. A War Crime. Not one British journalist has done this
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Looking into PhD programs and interested in research in Black Feminisms and Black Girlhoods in Education? Come study with me! I am recruiting a PhD student beginning Fall 2024! Reach out for more information -
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Excited to share that I'll be continuing to create meaningful literacy spaces for our youth! Very grateful to @humanitiesny for their support and recognition of the value in this work. #BlackGirlSpaces #YouthEmpowerment #makerspaces #HumanitiesNewYork
Prof. @DrCourt_Mauldin has received a grant from @humanitiesny for a "new project centering Black girls’ stories by creating space for intracommunal dialogue, guided artmaking, and the opportunity for girls to curate an exhibition that showcases their lived experiences."
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Checkout @Keara_Williams_ @TyroneCHoward and I’s new article in Urban Ed!We outline how anti-blackness inflicts racial trauma on Black youth and make recommendations for how teachers and teacher educators can mitigate/disrupt these deleterious consequences https://t.co/JbWdqvBB76
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