Assistant Professor of Sociology
Department of Sociology
University of Memphis
Clement Hall, Room 309D
Memphis TN 38152

Phone: (901) 678-3778
Fax: (901) 678-2525
Zandria.Robinson@Memphis.Edu

Zandria F. Robinson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology. She earned the PhD in Sociology from Northwestern University in 2010. Before joining the Department of Sociology, Robinson was Assistant Professor of Sociology and McMullan Assistant Professor of Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi (2009-2012) and William Randolph Hearst Dissertation Fellow and Assistant Professor of Sociology at Rhodes College (2008-2009).

Robinson's research focuses on the post-Civil Rights South, particularly the African American experience in southern cities. Broadly, her primary research interests include urban sociology; race, class, gender, and sexuality; and feminism, with a focus on black feminist theory. Robinson's recent research is concerned with the histories, cultures, and ideas generated about southern cities by regional insiders and outsiders. In her manuscript, This Ain't Chicago: Regional Identity and the Post-Soul South, she draws on ethnographic data and analyses to examine southern regional cultural distinctiveness as an "accomplishment" that occurs in film, music, popular media, and everyday life. In addition to her research in urban sociology, inequality, and intersectionality, Robinson has written on southern hip-hop and African American cultures in Memphis.

Robinson is a member of Cohort 33 of the American Sociological Association's Minority Fellowship Program and serves as Secretary of the Association of Black Sociologists.

Robinson has published articles in The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture and is co-editor with Sandra L. Barnes and Earl Wright II of Re-Positioning Race: Prophetic Research in a Post-Racial Obama Age (SUNY Press, 2013).