Blu Buchanan
University FellowContact Information
- bbuchan5@unca.edu
Office Hours
By appointment only.
Blu Buchanan is both a qualitative and historical scholar, employing methods ranging from archival analysis to oral history and interviews. Their research focuses broadly on the role of violence in everyday life, which informs their twin research trajectories: 1) studying whiteness and masculinity as projects shaping intracommunal violence in the LGBT community and 2) the practices and habits Black trans folks develop to resist and decenter violence in their everyday lives.
Teaching & Research Interests
Violence, Race and Ethnicity; Sexuality; Gender; Nationalism and State Formation; Social Movements; Political Sociology; Feminist Theory and Methods; Historical and Field Methods.
Education
- B.A. Psychology, University of Notre Dame
- M.A. Sociology, University of California, Davis
Publications
- Blu Buchanan and Ayotunde Ikuku. Fall 2021. “We Major: Black Trans Feminism Fights Back,” Black Feminist Sociology: Perspectives and Praxis. Forthcoming in Routledge Press.
- Buchanan, Blu. 2021. Film Review: Disclosure: Trans Lives on Screen. Teaching Sociology, 49(3):299-301.
- Blu Buchanan and Kush Patel. 2018. “Dodgy Scholars: Resisting the Neoliberal University,” PUBLIC: A Journal of Imagining America, 5(1). http://public.
imaginingamerica.org/blog/ article/dodgy-scholars- resisting-the-neoliberal- academy/