Larycia hawkins

Larycia Hawkins, PhD, is a scholar, a political science professor, and activist. In a December 10, , Facebook post, she declared her intention to don a hijab in embodied solidarity with Muslim sisters throughout the Christian season of Advent.

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The post initiated a national and international conversation about the nature of God and the possibilities for multifaith solidarity in a time where Islamaphobia, xenophobia, religiously-motivated hate crimes, and racism are more prolific than any time in history. The Rev. At the time of her activism, Doc Hawk as her students called her was associate professor of political science at Wheaton College IL , where she was the first black woman to receive tenure in the history of the university founded in by abolitionists.

Her research confronts the most pressing questions of the day. In an era where the contours of American citizenship are actively contested on multiple fronts, Professor Hawkins continues to walk in embodied solidarity with Syrian refugees during a visit to Turkey with the Zakat Foundation; and to speak nationally and internationally, including at the Free University of Berlin, Harvard University, Princeton University, Pomona College, and a TedX talk on her act of embodied solidarity.

This summer, she is finishing a book on the origin of embodied solidarity, including a visit to Rwanda in , when she witnessed the "miraculous" reconciliation of survivors and perpetrators of the Rwandan genocide. Grant Rutherford B. Hayes James A. Garfield Chester A. Roosevelt Harry S.