Anti-Racism Collaborative Postdoctoral Fellow and Associate Director of the Center for Racial Justice at the University of Michigan
About
Dominique Adams-Santos, PhD is the associate director of the Center for Racial Justice at the Ford School of Public Policy and an Anti-Racism Collaborative Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Center for Institutional Diversity. Additionally, she serves as special assistant to the associate dean for academic affairs. In 2021, she earned her PhD in sociology from Northwestern University, where she also completed a certificate in gender and sexuality studies. She received her BA in sociology (minor in African American studies) at Smith College, where she graduated with honors and cum laude in 2013. She is a qualitative researcher who centers questions of sexuality, intimacy, and belonging in the digital era. Specifically, through privileging the stories of everyday people, she seeks to understand how individuals navigate the racial, gender, and sexual politics of digital and urban landscapes in their search for intimacy and community. As a queer woman of color scholar, Dominique is especially invested in mapping the contours of placemaking among racialized and gendered sexual minorities, the subject of her dissertation project. She lives in the Metro Detroit area with her wife and many houseplants.
