Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Ph.D. is a citizen of the world with something to say. She's also an award-winning writer and educator interested in how people figure out who they are and how they connect with others. She shares what she's found--and her fresh perspectives on media, identity, diversity, religion, education, rhetoric and politics--through a variety of creative outlets.

In addition to her two highly anticipated books Clearly Invisible: Racial Passing and the Color of Cultural Identity and Eminem: The Real Slim Shady, and co-edited anthology about popular culture, you can find Dr. Dawkins’s critical work and book reviews in a variety of academic journals and edited volumes; journalism and op-eds in Truthdig, The Root, The Huffington Post, and Cultural Weekly; and personal essays on Mixed and Happy and Race-Talk.

Watch her on ABC Boston's CityLine. Listen to her on National Public Radio. Read her expert opinion in TIME Magazine. See her work featured on websites including Social Science Research Council and Campus Explorer. Take a workshop or class with Dr. Dawkins, or invite her to your college or corporate campus.

Dr. Dawkins earned her Doctorate at USC’s Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, her Master’s Degrees at New York University and the University of Southern California and her Bachelor’s Degrees at Villanova University. She is currently Visiting Scholar at Brown University.

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