Tina Campt is Associate Professor Women's Studies

Women's studies

Women's studies, also known as feminist studies, is an interdisciplinary academic field which explores politics, society and history from an intersectional, multicultural women's perspective...

 at Barnard University.

Campt was educated at Vassar College

Vassar College

Vassar College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college in the town of Poughkeepsie, New York, in the United States. The Vassar campus comprises over and more than 100 buildings, including four National Historic Landmarks, ranging in style from Collegiate Gothic to International,...

, gaining a BA in 1986. She then attended Cornell University

Cornell University

Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...

 in 1990 gaining her MA in 1990 and her PhD in 1996.

Campt has gained recognition for her approach to the history of Afro-Germans which uses a postcolonial, feminist, and diasporic

Diaspora

A diaspora is "the movement, migration, or scattering of people away from an established or ancestral homeland" or "people dispersed by whatever cause to more than one location", or "people settled far from their ancestral homelands".The word has come to refer to historical mass-dispersions of...

 outlook which combines the methodology of an oral historian with that of an ethnographer. In her book Other Germans she uses the oral testimonies of two black Germans, Hans Hauck

Hans Hauck

Hans Hauck was an Afro-German survivor of the Nazi regime in Germany.Hans was born in Frankfurt in 1920. He was the son of an Algerian soldier serving in the French Army. In 1933 he joined the Hitler Youth while living in Saarland . An SS officer helped get him work on the railway...

 and Fasia Jansen. This is regarded as a significant contribution to German Studies and Holocaust scholarship.

Writing

• Diasporic Hegemonies: Feminists Theorizing the African Diaspora, edited with Deborah Thomas, Feminist Review (2008)
• 'Black Folks Here and There: Diasporic Specificity and Relationality in Jacqueline Nassy Brown's Dropping Anchor, Setting Sail', Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, vol. 39 no. 2 (March, 2007) .
• 'Diasporic Hegemonies - Slavery, Memory, and Genealogies of Diaspora: A Dialogue with Jacqueline Nassy Brown and Bayo Holsey', Transforming Anthropology, vol. 1 no. 2 (October, 2006), pp. 163-177 .
• 'Capturing the Black German Subject: Race, Photography, Archive', in Black Germany: New Perspectives on Afro-German History, Politics and Culture, edited by Sarah Lennox and Tobias Nagl (Submitted, 2006).
• '"Be Real Black for Me" - Diaspora, Difference and a Politics of Imagination', in Crossovers: African Americans in Germany, edited by Maria Diedrich, Larry Greene and Juergen Heinrichs (Submitted, 2006).
• Other Germans: Black Germans and the Politics of Race, Gender and memory in the Third Reich, University of Michigan
  University of Michigan
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  Press, 2005