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  • Claire Crawford
  • 2025-26
  • American Postdoctoral Research Leave Fellowships
  • Wake Forest University (Winston-salem-NC)
  • Doctor of Philosophy
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  • Political Science
  • Political Theory
  • Hum So the Devil Doesn't Hear You: Rural Black Southern Existences as the Otherwise
  • Winston-Salem
  • NC
  • United States
  • Claire B. Crawford is an assistant professor of Africana Political Thought at Wake Forest University. Her research uses sound and life as entry points to examine Black liberation, American democracy, and collective futures. Her book project explores the intersections of sound, Southern Black political life, and democratic theory to reveal the political poetics of community and refusal.