CiAuna Heard
CiAuna Heard completed her Ph.D. in Sociology at Temple University and was an ACLS Emerging Voices Postdoctoral Fellow (2020). Her research focuses on Black upper-class communities, and the ways that families and organizations work together to socially reproduce an intersectional identity that seeks to affirm legitimate belonging in both racialized (Black) and classed (upper class) spaces.
Heard’s current book project, “Up the Hill: Jack and Jill of America Inc., and the Social Reproduction of Intersectional Communities” examines how organizations focused on children and families work as reproductive institutions—legitimating and reinforcing parental lessons on what it means to be a black upper-class person in their social world. This project examines both the qualitative substance, and transmission processes, of these lessons while also interrogating how geographical-regional differences illuminates differences in lesson process or substance.
Intersectionality Theory and Coalitional Praxis
The Black Middle Class
Social Reproduction of Community Identity
Women of Color Organizing and Organizations
Environmental Inequality and Climate Justice
For the 2021-2022 Academic Year, Heard will be teaching Women of Color in the US (WGST 112), Feminist Research Methods (WGST 102), and Intersectionality Theory and Praxis (WGST 103)