Visiting Assistant Professor of African & African American Studies

Contact Information

CPO 2106
Email: luneyl@berea.edu
Phone: 859-985-3400

Fall 2022

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Bio

Dr. LeAnna T. Luney is a visiting assistant professor of African and African American Studies at Berea College. Her scholarship centralizes Black girls’, womxn’s, and femmes’ lived experiences in educational institutions using theoretical and praxis-driven frameworks of Black feminism and decolonization. Dr. Luney specifically focuses on Black girls’, womxn’s, and femmes’ practices of coping and care using intersectional ethnographic research methodologies to create and implement equitable policy in P20 educational systems. Her other scholarship includes educational activism, and supporting students, families, and communities in re-creating and implementing equitable policy in education systems. She has led workshops on diversity, equity, and inclusion in higher education, provided cost-free Ethnic Studies reading groups to marginalized communities, mentored undergraduate students on research methodologies, facilitated culturally relevant coping courses to high school students, and has been an invited discussant in numerous campus, departmental, and community talks. In 2014, she was awarded the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship, and the 2020 Ethnic Studies Summer Research Grant, the 2020 Ruth Glenn Scholarship, 2020 Ethnic Studies Best Paper Award, and the 2021 Arts and Sciences Consortium of Committees on Climate, Equity, Inclusion and Diversity from the University of Colorado Boulder. Her work has been published in The Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, The Griot: The Journal of African American Studies, Research Issues in Contemporary Education, and book various volumes. Dr. Luney finds joy caring for her dogs and garden, and being in community with loved ones.

Dr. Luney earned a PhD in Comparative Ethnic Studies (with a specialization in Africana Studies) and Certificate in College Teaching from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2021, a M.A. in Pan-African Studies from the University of Louisville in 2018, and a B.A. in African and African American Studies and Psychology from Berea College in 2016.