About Kim
Kim is available for lectures, public discourse, and academic education. Contact her for availability.
Kimberly Alecia Singletary received her PhD in Rhetoric and Public Culture at Northwestern University in 2013. She received her MA from Georgetown University’s Communication, Culture, Technology program, and her BJ from the Missouri School of Journalism.
She was awarded the Gerald R. Miller Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award from the National Communication Association in 2014. She has received DAAD and Fulbright fellowships to Germany and Austria, respectively. She was a JET scholar and taught in rural Japan directly following her undergraduate degree.
Her work on blackness in the global public sphere has been published and featured in various journals and online forums. She writes about race, visuality and popular culture on her blog, Melancholy and the Infinite Post-Blackness.
After 10 years in the classroom at universities in the Midwest and Pacific Northwest, she left academia and now works in public health as health policy analyst and communications manager. She edits both as a passion project and in service to the academic community.
She is completing her first book, Blackness Personified: Images of U.S. Blackness in Contemporary German Public Culture (Peter Lang Press).
Publications & Awards
“What Should Antiracist Payment Reform Look Like?”
AMA Journal of Ethics, vol. 25, no. 1 (2023): E55-65.
Co-written with Marshall H. Chin
"Everyday Matters: Racial Haunting and the Black Diasporic Experience,"
in Rethinking Black German Studies: Approaches, Interventions, and Histories, eds. Tiffany N. Florvil and Vanessa D. Plumly (New York: Peter Lang Publishers, 2018): 137-168.
“Writing From the Margins: Academic White Spaces and the Silencing of Scholars of Color”
in Who Can Speak and Who Is Heard/Hurt?: Facing Problems of ’Race,’ Racism and Ethnic Diversity in American Studies in Germany and Beyond, eds. Mahmoud Arghavan, Nicole Hirschfelder, Luvena Kopp, Katharina Motyl (New York: Columbia University Press, 2018): 295-314.
2014: Gerald R. Miller Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award from the National Communication Association
"Singletary offers a keen understanding of how anti-Blackness in Germany and the United States' visual cultures create and sustain one another. With its nuanced historicization and careful attention to the circulatory power of images—or, what these images do—Blackness Personified is a balm for our current moment and visionary for better visual futures. A must read for scholars of visual rhetorical culture, transnational studies, and critical ethnic studies."
— Dr. Emily Winderman, University of Minnesota, author of Back-Alley Abortion:
A Rhetorical History.