Ashley Coleman Taylor

Curricular Fellow

Ashley Coleman Taylor, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. As an interdisciplinary ethnographer of circum-Caribbean descent, she specializes in the intersecting lived experiences of embodiment, Black genders, and Africana religions in Puerto Rico and her hometown of Atlanta, Georgia. Her book-in-progress is tentatively titled Majestad Negra: Race, Class, Gender and Religious Experience in the Puerto Rican Imaginary. It is an intersectional Black feminist approach to race, class, gender, and coloniality in Puerto Rico. The manuscript was a finalist for the University of Illinois/National Women’s Studies Association First Book Prize.