I am an Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies and Women and Gender Studies in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University.

I am a black queer feminist who studies knowledge production, loss, and black queer health. As a black geographer, I research how Black queer communities understand loss as a site from which to challenge process that write them out histories, health knowledges, and geographies. I work to bring Black queer hidden or missing experiences into mainstream conversations.

I am currently working on two projects. The first project is a queer of color critique of Public Health in particular response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. My second project looks at the ways loss is a key feature of Black life that allows communities fight back against systemic forms of marginalization.

I graduated from “The” Evergreen State College

I can be reached at amallor3@asu.edu