Aretina Hamilton is a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Geography. At present, she is writing a dissertation that focuses on African American lesbians and how they have created symbolic and material spaces of belonging in Atlanta, Georgia. Through this work, she hopes to identify how various parts of the city act as both centers of belonging, and sites of resistance for this population. In June 2010, she began a partnership with the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History whereby a number of her oral interviews will be deposited into their African American Lesbian and Gay Print Culture Collection.
She also holds a Graduate Certificate in Gender and Women's Studies from the University of Kentucky and studies how black women use performances of race, class and sexuality to present a counter narrative to mainstream images of femininity.
Ms. Hamilton is a native of Louisville, Kentucky. She received her Bachelor’s of Arts from Kentucky State University and her Masters in Arts from the University of Delaware’s School of Urban Affairs and Public Policy.
Kentucky State University (2001) B.A,. Political Science
- Gender and Women's Studies
- Geography