Diamond Urey (she/her/hers) examines the role of African market women as central political actors in moments of protest and social transformation. Her work centers on women’s organizing in Liberia during the civil war, with comparative case studies from Nigeria, Cameroon, Guinea, and Togo. Her research interests include gender, collective memory, cultural production, and the longue durée of women’s political engagement in African contexts. She has published scholarship engaging African feminist thought, including her recent work, “Is There a Difference Between ‘African’ and ‘Girl’? – A Found Poem from Interviews,” in the forthcoming volume African Feminist Girlhood Studies and Development (Springer, November 2025).
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Education
- BA in History and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, The College of New Jersey, 2024