Stephanie House-Niamke: Beyond the Black and white

“. . . My research focuses on the Black community and power. I want to understand the collective power of the Black community and its relationship to institutional and societal power. In this, I tend to focus specifically on Black women's relationships in different social systems in our society.”

Raised in southwestern Virginia by a community organizer and “accidental feminist” in a large family of K-12 educators, it’s natural for House-Niamke to view the world from a curiously critical gendered and racialized lens.

The juxtaposition of her upbringing in the face of persistent white religious iconography eventually led her to West Virginia University, where she is studying the topic for her doctorate in sociology. She is a W.E.B. Du Bois Fellow through the WVU Office of Graduate Education and Life. Black And White Cotton Tote Bag