Zinga Fraser

Zinga A. Fraser, PhD is the Endowed Postdoctoral fellow in Women’s and Gender Studies at Brooklyn College. Her work specializes in African American Politics, Black Women’s History and Black leadership during the Post Civil Rights Era. For over 10 years her work has examined the political life of Shirley Chisholm, her comparative study of Barbara Jordan and Shirley Chisholm received the 2014 Byran Jackson Dissertation Research on Minority Politics Award from the American Political Science Association. Her articles have been published in SOULS: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society, PHILLIS : Journal for Research on African American Women and the Association of Black Women Historians.