Renee Scott

M.A., American Studies (2019), George Washington University; B.A., (2013) English, African and African American Studies, Dartmouth College

Renee Scott (she/her) is a third generation Washingtonian with six years of education experience working in DC Public and Charter Schools. While at DCPS, Renee co-authored the curriculum for the first high school elective African American History course. She also contributed to the DCPS Race and Equity in Education Series, where she co-developed lessons titled “Gentrification and Neighborhood Change in Washington DC” and “African American GIrls, Women, and Intersectionality.” Now as a PhD Student, Renee is a graduate fellow with the African American Digital Humanities Initiative (AADHum) at the University of Maryland and was a RaceB4Race Social Media Fellow at the University of Arizona. Her research aims to analyze the ways in which Black girls find joy and thrive (or, develop racial health) through play in the full arc of African American history in the United States. She has published about this phenomenon focusing on methodologies of survival through Black Girl Play on TikTok in Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal. For her dissertation, she focuses on Black dollmaking and play as ongoing racial health projects, highlighting threads of continuity between historic analog dolls and contemporary digital dolls.

Publications

Academic

Taking on the Light: Ontological Black Girlhood in the Twenty-First Century (Girlhood Studies, https://doi.org/10.3167/ghs.2022.150102)

Non-Academic

The Movement for Black Lives Must Include Black Women (Zora, https://zora.medium.com/where-is-the-outrage-for-breonna-taylor-f2f7ed762e79)

Juneteenth is Not for Everyone (Zora, https://zora.medium.com/juneteenth-is-not-for-everyone-f4bc07b2b7b4)