Endia Louise Hayes

Endia Hayes is a scholar of what she describes as Black feminist sensory cultural study, a set of inquiries traversing the fields of cultural, Black, gender and sexuality studies alongside sociology. Dr. Hayes earned her Ph.D. in Sociology from Rutgers University and is currently the 2024-2025 Thurgood Marshall Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of African and African American Studies at Dartmouth College. Her writing has appeared in journals such as The Black Scholar, Literature and Medicine, Southern Cultures, and Gastronomica alongside pivotal anthologies like Black Feminist Sociology and Black Women and Da 'Rona. She has held fellowships with The Center for Black, Brown, and Queer Studies and the Global Black Feminisms Summer Lab, among others.