DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY

Biography

As a graduate researcher, Deborah Tulloch focuses on the African diaspora’s twentieth-century global cultural politics. Currently, Tulloch’s main project hones in on Marcus Garvey’s historical reconstruction of Blackness. Her research shows that, during the early twentieth century, Marcus Garvey politically used what Tulloch coins as transhistorical racemaking — a historical narrative that essentialized racial lineages through the advertent inverted implementation of racial language used by white supremacists— to empower Black people, resist Black racial oppression, and contest “scientific” racism. To conclude, Deborah Tulloch is a Mellon Mays Fellow and a City University of New York (CUNY) Pipeline Fellow, who has earned a Bachelor of History at CUNY Queens College.