Tatiana M. Cruz

Assistant Professor and Interdisciplinary Program Director of Africana Studies, Simmons University

Dr. Tatiana Cruz is a Boston native and an Assistant Professor and Director of Africana Studies and Women's and Gender Studies at Simmons University. She is also the Founding Co-Director of the North Star Collective, a regional consortium of colleges and universities committed to racial equity and uplifting BIPOC faculty.

Her research interests include African American and Latinx history, social movements, Race/Ethnic Studies, oral history, urban history, and Women’s and Gender Studies. Dr. Cruz is currently completing a book titled Deep North Uprising: African American and Latinx Identity, Community, and Protest in Boston (University of Pennsylvania Press) and has published in the Journal of Urban History, the New England Quarterly, and has a forthcoming chapter in an edited collection called Black Movement: African Americans, Cities and Post-Black Power America (University of North Carolina Press). She received her B.A. from Williams College, and a M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.