Shoji Sanders

Shoji is a PhD Candidate whose research focuses on the role of black church women’s adornment in identity formation and expressions of black womanhood. She argues that clothing can be read as an epistemology for black women from the early 1900s through the contemporary moment. Her work employs interdisciplinary methods and theory including historical analysis, material culture, performance theory, visual culture, and ethnography to investigate how African American church women became style architects, cultural producers, and change agents.