Professor of American Culture and Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
She/Her/Hers
mzaborow@umich.edu
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Digital Studies;
Digital Humanities;
Race and Ethnicity;
Identity, Power, and Inequality;
American Culture
Education/Degree:
Ph.D., University of Oregon, 1992 M.A., Warsaw University, Poland, 1987
About
Research Area(s)
- literary and cultural studies approaches to intersections of social space and transatlantic discourses on race, nationality, (queer) sexuality, and gender
- African-American literature (esp. James Baldwin)feminist, and critical race theory; visual culturepost-totalitarian East-Central Europe
- 20th-century immigrant literatures
- East European immigrant women writers
- Polish-Jewish studies
Affiliation(s)
- Facutly: Department of American Culture (AC), African American Studies Caucus
- Faculty: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS)
Award(s)
- Professor Zaborowska is the Winner of the 2009 William Sanders Scarborough Prize Award
- 2009-2010 Hunting Family Fellow at the Institute for the Humanities
- Honorable Mention, Errol Hill Award (for outstanding scholarship in African American theater, drama, and/or performance studies) from the American Society for Theater Research for James Baldwin's Turkish Decade
