Gaius Charles Bolin Fellow in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology
Education
M.A. Vanderbilt University (2017)
M.A. University of Massachusetts Amherst (2021)
Scholarship/Creative Work
Recent Publications
Green, Venus. 2025 “Black Women’s Unthought Position: A Black Feminist Examination of Du Bois’s Writings on Black Women’s Oppression at the Intersections of Gender and Race.” Gender and Society 39(2): 173-198. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432251317162
Green, Venus, and Cedric de Leon. 2024. “The Ruse of Recognition: Black Labor in the Afterlife of Slavery.” Sociology of Race and Ethnicity Online View First. doi: 10.1177/23326492241247786.
Misra, Joya, Celeste Vaughan Curington, and Venus Mary Green. 2021. “Methods of Intersectional Research.” Sociological Spectrum 41(1): 9-28. doi: 10.1080/02732173.2020.1791772.
*Reprinted in Sarah B. Donley’s and Melencia Johnson’s Intersectional Experiences
and Marginalized Voices: Research, Analysis, and Praxis, 1st edition. New York: Taylor and Francis (2024)
Peer-Reviewed Teaching Publications
Green, Venus. 2023. “Understanding the Enduring Legacies of Slavery: Teaching the Afterlife of Slavery and Social Death.” TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology, May. Washington DC: American Sociological Association. https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/understanding-the-enduring-legacies.
Other Scholarly Publications
Green, Venus and Cedric de Leon. 2024 “Anti-Blackness and the Historical Limits of Progressive Trade Unionism.” Works In Progress. American Sociological Association’s Sections on Organizations, Occupations, and Work, Economic Sociology, Labor and Labor Movements, and Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility. http://www.wipsociology.org/2024/11/11/anti-blackness-and-the-historical-limits-of-progressive-trade-unionism/
Research Reports
Smith-Doerr, Laurel, Shlomo Zilberstein, Tiamba Wilkerson, Shannon C. Roberts, Henry Renski, Venus Green, and Nonong H. Branch. 2019. “NSF Workshop Report—HTF (Future of Work at the Human-Technology Frontier): Understanding Emerging Technologies, Racial Equity, and the Future of Work.” http://rbr.cs.umass.edu/htf/NSF-Workshop-Report.pdf
Awards, Fellowships & Grants
2025 Center for Engaged Scholarship (CES) Research Grant
2023-2024 Center for Engaged Scholarship Dissertation Fellowship
2023-2024 Racial/Ethnic Minority Graduate Fellowship, Society for the Study of Social Problems
2023-2024 Esther Ngan-ling Chow and Mareyjoyce Green Dissertation Scholarship, Sociologists for Women in Society, Honorable Mention
2022-2023 Mellon Dissertation Fellowship, World Studies Interdisciplinary Project (WSIP), University of Massachusetts Amherst
2021 Sociology Incentive Fellowship, Department of Sociology, University of Massachusetts Amherst
2020-2021 Center for Employment Equity Research Summer Fellow, Institute of Social Science Research (ISSR), University of Massachusetts Amherst
2020 New Scholars Research Grant, Labor Action Research Network
2019-2020 Andrew W. Mellon “W.E B. Du Bois Fellowship,” W.E.B. Du Bois Center, University of Massachusetts Amherst,
2019 Charles H. Page Theory Paper Scholarship for Best Graduate Student Theory Paper, Department of Sociology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
2017-2021 Research Enhancement and Leadership (REAL) Fellowship, Graduate School, University of Massachusetts Amherst