GAYE'S CV
University of California at Los Angeles
Associate Professor, Department of Chicana, Chicano, and Central American Studies
Affiliate, Department of African American Studies
Anacapa Consulting Group
Co-Founder and Partner, 2021- Present
• Provide Executive Coaching for Senior Leaders, Athletic Directors, Faculty, Coaches, Youth Sports Clubs and Boards in Higher Education and Secondary Schools.
• Consult with Senior Leaders, Athletic Directors, Faculty, Coaches, Youth Sports Clubs and Boards in Higher Education and Secondary Schools with a focus on performance, cultural competency, and human sustainability to reimagine their organization, programs, hiring, staffing, and retention to align with their current demographics and institutional mission.
• Execute Professional Development around cultural competency, organizational performance, and human sustainability.
• Support leadership teams in developing DEI plans for their institution.
• Life Coaching for pre-professionals, such as college students and early career professionals
Areas of interest and expertise
Cultural Politics, Theory, and Expression | Black and Chicanx Radical History and Culture | Spatial Theory and Spatial Resistance | Political Economy | US History 1800-Present |Anti-Racist Pedagogy and Practice
Publications - Books and Edited Volumes
In Progress - Johnson, Gaye Theresa, These Walls Will Fall: Redefining Freedom in the 21st Century (Under Contract with University of North Carolina Press)
In Progress - Johnson, Gaye Theresa, Mondragon, Rudy, and Leonard, David J. (eds) Rings of Dissent: Boxing and the Performance of Rebellion (Under Preliminary Contract, Raleigh-Durham: University of North Carolina Press).
2017 - Johnson, Gaye Theresa and Lubin, Alexander (eds). The Futures of Black Radicalism (New York: Verso Press). - Second Edition 2020 (U.S.) - Third Edition 2021 (Translated into German, acquired by Zambon Press)
2013 - Johnson, Gaye Theresa. Spaces of Conflict, Sounds of Solidarity: Music, Race, and Spatial Entitlement in Los Angeles (Berkeley: University of California Press).
2013 - Co-Editor, Black California Dreamin’: Social Vision and the Crisis of California’s African American Communities. (Special Issue of the Journal of the Center for Black Studies Research).
Recent Administrative Appointments
2021-Present
Associate Director, Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies, UCLA
2020-2021
Chair, Faculty Advisory Committee, Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies, UCLA
2017-2020
Vice-Chair, Department of African American Studies, UCLA
Fellowships, Grants, and Residencies (selected List)
2020-2021 - UCLA Chancellor’s Award for Community-Engaged Scholars. $10K
2019-2021 - Mellon Sawyer Seminar Grant, co-Principle Investigator with Ananya Roy (PI), Leisy Ábrego, and Maite Zubuairre. “Sanctuary Spaces: Reworlding Humanism” $225K.
2019-2021 - Social Justice Research Group, with David Yoo and Lorrie Frasure. Research Projects on Designing Ethnic Studies Curriculum in Los Angeles and Ventura County Secondary Schools.
2016 - Collège d’études mondiales, Paris. University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI) and the Maison des sciences de l’homme, “Race after the ‘Post-Racial’: Thinking Through the Proliferation of Racisms” 6 and 7 December.
2014 - PI, University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI) Engaging Humanities Public Humanities Grant. “Afro-Mexican and Afro-American Encounters: Creating a Space of Convivencia in a Hollowed-Out World”
2010 - co-PI (with Clyde Woods and George Lipsitz) Interdisciplinary Humanities Center Faculty Collaborative Research Grant “Black California Dreamin’: Social Vision and the Crisis of California’s African American Communities.”
2010 - Expert-in-Residence, African Leadership Academy, Johannesburg, South Africa. 2008-2009 - Research Fellow, Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity, Stanford University.
2008-2009 - (with Clyde Woods) Research Grant, University of California Humanities Research Institute. “African American Traditions in California: Establishing a University of California System-wide Network to Address Research, Curricular, Public Policy, and Archival Needs.”
Awards and Honors
2020 - Named a “Master Educator” by Course Hero. An accompanying short Documentary Film Project produced about anti-racist and abolitionist teaching.
2018 - Research Excellence Award, Center for the Study of Women and the Institute of American Cultures, UC Los Angeles (postponed).
2013 - Freedom Now! Award. Los Angeles Community Action Network
2013 - Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award, UC Santa Barbara
Recent Consultancies [Selected List}
2022 - California State University Channel Islands; Consultation on Curriculum Design for Ethnic Studies Requirement, Consultation on Program in Africana Studies
2022 - California State University Fullerton; Alignment of Departmental Faculty with Mission of Department and School
2020-21 - The Thacher School. History and English Curriculum Redesign. Anti-Racist and Abolitionist Pedagogies
2019-20 - Ventura Unified School District: Creation of Ethnic Studies Course, Professional Development for Teachers, and School Board Consultancy