Kat Cosby

Kat Cosby was a Rising Scholars Postdoctoral Fellow in the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Department. They are an interdisciplinary scholar whose work focuses on Black women and their geographies in Brazil in the post-abolition era. Their book manuscript interrogates how the presence and contributions of Black women and the attempts to erase them historically from geographies in São Paulo were essential to the formation and development of the city. Kat examines how criminalizing Black women's presence was crucial to whitening ideology and practices in the early twentieth century.

Kat Cosby is now an Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at California State University Channel Islands (CSUCI), with an emphasis in Modern Latin America, Black Feminist Studies, African Diaspora, Black Geographies, as well as Black women and their geographies in Brazil in the post-abolition era.