Marquita M Gammage
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Brief Biography

Marquita M. Gammage, Ph.D., is a nationally recognized scholar, equity strategist, and institutional leader. She is the Inaugural Director of the Ethnic Studies Center for Research, Activism, and Community Empowerment (RACE) and Full Professor of Africana Studies at California State University, Northridge, where she previously served as Department Chair.

Dr. Gammage’s research examines the intersections of race, media, gender, culture, and technology, analyzing how media representations sustain anti-Black ideologies and shape public policy outcomes. Grounded in an Afrocentric lens, her scholarship interrogates portrayals of Black womanhood and family in popular media. She is the author of Media Racism: The Impact of Media Injustice on Black Women’s Lives (2024), Representations of Black Women in the Media (2015), and co-editor of Challenging Misrepresentations of Black Womanhood (2019). She also serves as Series Editor for Bloomsbury Publishing Critical Africana Studies series.

A leader in equity-centered transformation, Dr. Gammage has served as Senior Faculty Strategist for CSUN’s Black Student Success Initiative, campus co-lead for the university’s Black-Serving Institution application, and co-led the City of Los Angeles African American Reparations Study. Her work bridges research, policy, and institutional change to advance justice and educational equity.

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