Mako Ward

Select Academic Publications (full texts available using Google Scholar link above) 

Ward, M. F. (2024). Hotep anti-Blackness: Misogynoir and queer exclusion in online conspiracy theorizing. Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies, 1-24. 

Ward, M. F. (2024). Ruha Benjamin. In M C. Jipguep-Akhtar and N. Khan (eds.) Fifty key scholars in Black social thought. New York: Routledge, 232-236.

Ward, M. F., Sandlin, J., Vlahoulis, M. M. and Holman, C. (editors) (2021). The pandemic reader: Exposing social (in)justice in the time of COVID-19. New York: DIO Press, Inc.

Ward, M. F. (2021). “Metamorphic liberation”: Radical self-care and the biopolitical agency of Black women. Kalfou: A Journal of Comparative and Relational Ethnic Studies, 8(1): 256-273.

Ward, M. F. (2021). The Resurgence of Marxist feminist analytics: Book review of Marx, Women and Capitalist Social Reproduction: Marxist Feminist Essays by Martha E. Giménez. Social Justice: A Journal of Crime, Conflict and World Order, 47(1-2): 241-247.

Ward, M. F. (2017). Queen Bey and the new Niggerati: Ethics of individualism in the appropriation of black radicalism. Black Camera, 9(1): 146-163.

Fitts, M. (2011). Theorizing transformative revolutionary action: The contribution of bell hooks to emancipatory knowledge production. The C.L.R. James Journal: A Review of Caribbean Ideas, 17(1): 112-132.

Fitts, M. (2008). ‘Drop it like it’s hot’: Culture industry laborers and their perspectives on rap music video production. Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism, 8(1): 211-235.

Fitts, M. (2009). Institutionalizing intersectionality: Reflections on the structure of women’s studies departments and programs. In Michele T. Berger and Kathleen Guidroz (Eds.) The Intersectional Approach: Transforming the Academy through Race, Class and Gender, 249-257. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press.

Rubin, L. R., Fitts, M. L., & Becker, A. E. (2003). ‘Whatever feels good in my soul’: Body ethics and aesthetics among African American and Latina women. Culture, medicine, and psychiatry, 27: 49-75.

Public Scholarship

*Denotes graduate student co-author

**Denotes sponsored research

***Denotes contract funding

*Acosta, A., *Akapnitis, I., *Brooks-Hawkins, J., Ward, M.F., Hita, L., Lopez, V., Ignacio, M., Mendoza, N., Wolfersteig, W., Osuna, C., *Jenkins, G.T., & Diaz, M. (2024). Empowering providers to address equity in Arizona healthcare: Addressing health disparities related to substance use disorder. Tempe, AZ: Arizona State University, Social Transformation Lab & Southwest Interdisciplinary Research Center.

**Barra, E., Ward, M. F., Anderson, L. M. and Brown, *A. M. (2022). Women in the mix study. Los Angeles: The Recording Academy©. https://naras.a.bigcontent.io/v1/static/witm_study_2

**Hines, E. and Ward, M. F. (2022). Black women thriving: BWT report 2022. Raleigh, NC: Every Level Leadership. https://everylevelleads.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Black-Women-Thriving-Report_2022.pdf.

***Ward, M. F., Crudup, C. *Borman, B., Young, L. and Wilson, D. (2022). Outreach worker program: Assessment and evaluation. Evaluation report submitted to the Starbucks Global Social Impact Team. Tempe, AZ: Arizona State University.

Ward, M. F. (2020, October 3). The limits of the protest paradigm. JSTOR daily, https://daily.jstor.org/intersectional-protest-image/.

Ward, M. F. and Bailey, M. (2020, June 24). Queer liberation is Black liberation, justice for Black lives is justice for all. Praxis Center, https://www.kzoo.edu/praxis/justice-for-black-lives/.

Ward, M. F. (2020). BARE coach certification program: Curriculum assessment report. Evaluation report submitted to Susan Hyatt, Inc. Tempe, AZ: Arizona State University.

***Ward, M. F., Bailey, M. M., Solyom, J. and Bustamante, N. (2019). Welcoming dialogue on sexuality bias. To be welcoming. Tempe, AZ: Starbucks Global Academy. https://www.starbucksglobalacademy.com/to-be-welcoming/.

***Ward, M. F., Solyom, J., Chin, J. (2019). Welcoming dialogue on gender bias. To be welcoming. Tempe, AZ: Starbucks Global Academy. https://www.starbucksglobalacademy.com/to-be-welcoming/.

**Fitts, M. and Perry, G. (Eds.) 2008. The State of the Central District Report: Community-Based Service-Learning Project. Seattle: Seattle University.

Fitts, M., Sawa, D. and Schulman, J. C. (2007). Lesson 1: Modern momotoro: Folktales in hip hop. In M. Runnel and M. Diaz (eds.), The hip-hop education guidebook, volume 1. New York: Hip-Hop Association, Inc., 70-77.

Perry, G. K. and Fitts, M. (2006, September). “Gentrification and Black America: What Should We Know?” The Griot: The Official Newsletter of The Association of Black Sociologists.