Assistant Professor at The Ohio State University| 2022 NAEd/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow| Black Girlhood Scholar| Black Feminist| Chicagoan| DST 🔺| Loves to 🛼
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1 Mar 2024
I’m extremely happy to share that I signed a contract for my first book tentatively titled, (Un)Schooling Black Girls: Navigating Suburbia, Anti-Black-Girl Violence, and Mechanisms of School Survival with @UNC_Press & I get to work with the incredible @dawnd ! #BlackGirlhood
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Ashley L. Smith-Purviance, PhD retweeted
30 Jul 2025
Our 150th episode! A fantastic listen, Ashley talks with Patrice Douglass about gender, slavery, and the long horizon of racial violence. Thoughtful and compelling conversation, here or at your preferred stream:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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15 Nov 2024
New publication alert! Loved dreaming this work up alongside my sistas!! #BlackGirlhoodStudies
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4 May 2024
So extremely happy for you Dr. Lesure!!! Congratulations!!! 🎉🎉🎉 So honored to know you friend & to witness this moment!! 💜
3 May 2024
I officially defended my dissertation, Making Extraordinary Men: Race Leadership Education in a Nonprofit Collegiate Black Male Initiative. I am grateful to my committee for their support. Next stop: Visiting Assistant Professor of Education at Brown University!
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Ashley L. Smith-Purviance, PhD retweeted
25 Apr 2024
Students launched an encampment for Gaza at Ohio State University — the third largest university in the country.
After police swept the camp this morning, students and community have returned to protest in full force.
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26 Apr 2024
RT @sheathescholar: this is how the cops are preparing to engage with peaceful #OhioState protesters on South Oval.
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26 Apr 2024
RT @sheathescholar: new announcement from cops on South Oval: disperse immediately or get arrested.
Protesters have tightened their circl…
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Ashley L. Smith-Purviance, PhD retweeted
I hope she saved her own life with the resignation.
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8 Dec 2023
Yesterday was such a beautiful day! The love & support from Black women keeps me going & grounded. So grateful! Love yall!! 🥰💜💜💜
@alsmith_01 what a brilliant day experiencing you and Amy Meredith Cox! Just beautiful. Your book is going to help so many ppl. My heart and mind r still reverberating. I look way up to you both❤️❤️🌺 #BlackWomenScholars #Blackgirlhood #Unschooling
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Ashley L. Smith-Purviance, PhD retweeted
4 Nov 2023
NOW: Thousands call for a ceasefire in Gaza at a rally in Washington, DC
🎥 @BenjAlvarez1
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Ashley L. Smith-Purviance, PhD retweeted
14 Oct 2023
70 killed by Israeli rockets while fleeing Gaza AS INSTRUCTED... reports CNN. Rafah crossing (1 of 2 ways out) w/ Egypt supposed to be open & is not. Israel has cut off fuel, water and food. This is murder. Who could justify this?!!
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Ashley L. Smith-Purviance, PhD retweeted
9 Sep 2023
COCO. JUST. DID. THAT. 👏
ALT Graphic: Coco Gauff defeats Aryna Sabalenka 2-6, 6-3, 6-2, in the US Open Women's Singles Final.
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Ashley L. Smith-Purviance, PhD retweeted
2 Aug 2023
Looking into PhD programs and interested in research in Black Feminisms and Black Girlhoods in Education? Come study with me! I am recruiting a PhD student beginning Fall 2024! Reach out for more information -
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Ashley L. Smith-Purviance, PhD retweeted
20 Jul 2023
Excited to share that I'll be continuing to create meaningful literacy spaces for our youth! Very grateful to @humanitiesny for their support and recognition of the value in this work. #BlackGirlSpaces #YouthEmpowerment #makerspaces #HumanitiesNewYork
Prof. @DrCourt_Mauldin has received a grant from @humanitiesny for a "new project centering Black girls’ stories by creating space for intracommunal dialogue, guided artmaking, and the opportunity for girls to curate an exhibition that showcases their lived experiences."
ALT professor courtney mauldin holding books and and smiling into the camera
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Ashley L. Smith-Purviance, PhD retweeted
23 Jun 2023
Checkout @Keara_Williams_ @TyroneCHoward and I’s new article in Urban Ed!We outline how anti-blackness inflicts racial trauma on Black youth and make recommendations for how teachers and teacher educators can mitigate/disrupt these deleterious consequences journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
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Ashley L. Smith-Purviance, PhD retweeted
26 May 2023
Blue Ivy eating at the #RENAISSANCEWorldTour
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