Karen Flynn, Assistant Professor
Contact
African American Studies
1201 W. Nevada
217.333.7781
kcflynn@illinois.edu
Biography
Karen Flynn is an Assistant professor in the African-American Studies Program at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She received her Ph.D. in Women's Studies from York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada where she completed her dissertation "Race, Class and Gender: Black Nurses in Ontario, 1950-1980." She received her Master's & Bachelor's degrees in History from the University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Her research interests includes women, work, family, racism, health, migration, feminist and critical anti-racist theory, and post-colonial studies. Her current research focuses on Caribbean migrant and Black Canadian born women during the post World War II era. Dr. Flynn is currently working on a manuscript tentatively titled: Caring at Home and Abroad: Black Nurses in the American Diaspora.
Dr. Flynn has received numerous awards including the 2004 International Program and Studies, William and Flora Hewlett International Research Travel Grant; the 2003 CARE Initiative Bremer Foundation Grant awarded to the Committee on Diversity in Education (CODE); and in 2000, the Hannah institute of Medicine Doctoral Fellowship, the Ramsay Cooke Fellowship, the Ethel Armstrong Bursary, and the Lillian Sholtis Brunner Summer Fellowship (University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing). Dr. Flynn has published several refereed academic articles, and has several book chapters in a number of edited collections. In addition, she has published numerous editorials in Share, Canada's largest ethnic newspaper, which serves the Black & Caribbean communities in the Greater Metropolitan Toronto area. Dr. Flynn is also a free-lance writer for Canada Extra.