Sydney-Paige Patterson

  • Visiting Assistant Professor of Comparative American Studies and Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies

Areas of Study

Education

  • PhD in history, Indiana University Bloomington, 2025
  • MA in humanities and social thought/global history, New York University, 2015
  • BA in English, BA in African American and African Diaspora studies; Indiana University Bloomington, 2013
     

Biography

Sydney-Paige Patterson earned a PhD in history at Indiana University. Her research focuses on African Diasporic and South Asian history. Utilizing ethnographic and archival methods, her research examines transnational social movements throughout the 20th century, focusing on how Black Americans have inspired or contributed to the formation of radical movements for freedom around the world. Her dissertation specifically examines the connection between race, caste and gender through an analysis of the Black and Dalit Panther Parties. She was awarded a Fulbright-Nehru Fellowship to complete her dissertation research in India in 2022.

Fall 2025

Introduction to Queer Studies — CAST 207

Introduction to Queer Studies — GSFS 207

To Write a Life: A Course on Memoir — CAST 218

To Write a Life: A Course on Memoir — GSFS 218

Spring 2026

Introduction to Queer Studies — CAST 207

Introduction to Queer Studies — GSFS 207

The Civil Rights Movement Revisited — CAST 300

The Civil Rights Movement Revisited — GSFS 300

Black Feminism and Decolonization — CAST 407

Black Feminism and Decolonization — GSFS 407

  • “The Specter of Race in the Caste Question,” Caste, Race, and Indigeneity in & Beyond South Asia, ed. Shailaja Paik, Routledge, 2026

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