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Suzie Telep is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Illinois University, specializing in linguistic and cultural anthropology as well as Afro-feminist studies. She holds a PhD in Linguistics from Paris Cité University and has been a Marie Sklodowska-Curie postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pennsylvania. Her primary research explores the intersection of race and the Black body as constructed through language and fashion, focusing on the Cameroonian diaspora in Paris. Suzie is particularly interested in Black women's cultural productions and the aesthetics of resistance that emerge within African fashion and beauty discourses in digital media. She has served on the editorial board of the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology and has undertaken various collaborative projects aimed at decolonizing images and enhancing the self-fashioning beauty practices of Black women in digital spaces. Suzie's artistic endeavors include jazz singing and songwriting, blending her research with performance to explore Afro-diasporic identities in contemporary Europe, Africa, and the Americas. She also coaches PhD students and welcomes collaborations on themes of language, race, and intersectionality in education and media.
University of Pennsylvania • Philadelphia, PA
Conducting research focusing on language and race as they pertain to Afro-diasporic communities.
Angers University, France • Angers, France
Taught courses in French linguistics.
Stanford University • Stanford, CA
Taught French language courses.
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