Dr. Hordge-Freeman gives the keynote and displays artwork at the Healing While Black conference.
Dr. Hordge-Freeman provided the keynote speech entitled, “Imagine Blackness: Power, Purpose and Pursuit of Joy.” She…
EJ Salcines awarded USF honorary degree, nominated by Dr. Hordge-Freeman and Donna Parrino
Pictured above: EJ Salcines at the USF May 2023 Commencement Ceremony
Dr. Hordge-Freeman organizes USF’s first African American Read-In program at Lomax
Dr. Hordge-Freeman co-organized with Monica Narain a pilot of the USF African American Read-In at Lomax…
The Imagine Blackness Exhibition was featured as a 2-page spread in the Tampa Bay Times
“They beckon from the walls in the galleries at Creative Pinellas: beautiful Black men, women and…
Imagine Blackness Exhibit opens in January 2023 with record attendance
From a botanical paradise laden with richly hued figures to an otherworldly futuristic sci-fi cosmos, this…
Dr. Hordge-Freeman organized a private viewing of Black Panther 2 for USF faculty & Staff
There were 40 members of the USF Black Employee Steering Committee, Black Faculty and Staff Association,…
Dr. Hordge-Freeman selected to receive the “Orgullo” Award by the Tampa Hispanic Heritage, Inc
Hordge-Freeman received the Orgullo Award, which is awarded to a non-Hispanic leader who has advocated for…
Check out Hordge-Freeman’s regular columns in USF magazine
Winter 2020 –“Building an Equitable Future: Beyond the Metrics” Spring 2021: The DARE Dashboard: Innovative approaches to…
Dr. Hordge-Freeman’s work with Layla’s house and Anti-Black racism is highlighted
The University of South Florida has chosen Champions’ Layla’s House program as a community partner for…
Dr. Hordge-Freeman provided a university lecture at The University of Missouri on “The Color of Love”
The Afro-Romance Institute presents lecture by Dr. Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman, “The Color of Love: Racial Features, Stigma,…
Dr. Hordge-Freeman presented on “affective capital” and love at Florida International University.
For a lot of people, love is a condition of survival. A way to resist oppression.…
Dr. Hordge-Freeman launched a call for proposals for her new co-edited projected on “Surpassing Survival.”
We welcome the submission of abstracts, brief descriptions of artistic work, and full submissions of original,…
Dr. Hordge-Freeman and Angelica LoBlack co-authored an article, “Cops only see the brown skin, they could care less where it originated”: Afro-Latinx Perceptions of the #BlackLivesMatter Movement” in Sociological Perspectives.
The increasing visibility of Afro-Latinxs in the United States has catalyzed interest among researchers about this…
Dr. Hordge-Freeman appointed as Senior Advisor to the President and Provost for Diversity and Inclusion
University of South Florida President Steven Currall announced a series of actions to reinforce USF’s commitment…
Dr. Hordge-Freeman’s research is highlighted by USF
Associate Professor of Sociology Dr. Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman shares her ground-breaking global research on modern-day slavery and…
Dr. Hordge-Freeman is interviewed about how universities should respond to racially insensitive comments.
Actions may speak louder than words, but in the age of social media, the opposite may…
Dr. Hordge-Freeman and Michel Chagas co-authored an article for Portál GELEDES
A COVID-19 tem exercido um impacto devastador, e as comunidades negras em todo o mundo têm sido…
Dr. Hordge-Freeman has a new Blog post on Love and Black Families
In the midst of popular messages that speak about the unconditional nature of love, to what…
Dr. Hordge-Freeman and Edlin Veras co-authored “Out of the Shadows, Into the Dark: Ethnoracial Dissonance and Identity Formation in Afro-Latinx Families” in the journal for the Sociology of Race & Ethnicity (2020)
A 2016 Pew report reported that 24 percent of Hispanics identify as Afro-Latinxs, but researchers know…
Bringing your Whole Self to Research: The Power of the Researcher’s Body, Emotions, and Identities in Ethnography, International Journal of Qualitative Methods in 2018
Despite advancements, there remains relatively little research about how researchers navigate their bodies and emotions in…
Read Dr. Hordge-Freeman’s blog post on Toni Morrison’s new book, God Help the Child.
Musings on Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child By Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman When I read early publicity that…
Hordge-Freeman participated in an Author Meets Critic session for The Color of Love.” Society for the Study of Symbolic Interactionism Conference, Montreal, Canada, August 11, 2017.
At this year’s SSSI Annual Meetings in Montreal we had organised an Author meets Critics session.…
Dr. Hordge-Freeman selected for the Florida Campus Compact Global Engagement 5th Annual Award
By Barbara Melendez USF News TAMPA, Fla. (Nov. 6, 2015) – The University of South Florida and…
Dr. Hordge-Freeman was quoted in the USA Today article: ‘This is your mama’s brand, Dove Says.’
In the late 1980s General Motors tried to breathe new life into Oldsmobile by marketing the car as “not…