TRACYE A. MATTHEWS

Executive Director
tracye@uchicago.edu
773.702.8063

Tracye is a curator, filmmaker, and historian who bridges academia, public history, museums, and documentary film. She currently serves as the Executive Director of the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture at the University of Chicago, having previously been a Mellon Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow.

Her curatorial projects include exhibitions, video installations and public programs for institutions such as the Chicago History Museum, the DuSable Museum of African American History, the National Museum of Mexican Art, and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Tracye has held various roles in documentary filmmaking and most recently produced the Academy Award©-shortlisted documentary short, '63 Boycott, with Kartemquin Films. She is currently completing her directorial debut feature film, the autobiographical Untitled Black Adoption Story.

Previously, she was an assistant professor in the Africana Studies Department at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Her writing has appeared in anthologies and journals, including Race and Class and The Black Panther Party Reconsidered. Her groundbreaking article on gender and the Black Panther Party is frequently cited in Panther studies. Tracye earned her Ph.D. in American History from the University of Michigan, where she directed the Ella Baker-Nelson Mandela Center for Anti-Racist Education.