Taylor L. Smith is a fourth-year doctoral student at the Annenberg School for Communication. She holds an African & African-American Studies degree from Washington University in St. Louis (WashU).
Her current work explores Black girls and women’s unique contributions to Black textual and visual literacies with specific attention to aesthetic, memory, and archival construction. Additionally, she investigates how long-standing Black communal practices of memory-making and information diffusion adapt to the possibilities of new digital media.
Her work has been supported by the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship, the SSRC-Mellon Mays Graduate Initiatives Program, Archiving the Black Web, and the Center for Digital Culture and Society (CDCS) here at Penn.
She is honored to be joining the SNF Paideia Program as a graduate fellow, where she looks forward to working closely with faculty committed to rich and respectful dialogue and aiding in students’ growth as scholars, citizens, and individuals.