Taylor Marie Doherty
Ph.D. Candidate
Pronouns:
she, they
Taylor Marie Doherty (she/they) is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Arizona with PhD minors in Information and Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory (SCCT). Taylor is a co-organizer of the Archival Activism, Memory, and the Body Workshop and the Social Reproduction Theory Collective (SRTC). Their transdisciplinary research interests include political theory, comparative politics, Black feminist theory, queer of color critique/queer studies, trans studies, transnational feminisms, social movements, protest ephemera and street art, community archives, critical archival studies, and care and social reproduction.
Taylor earned an M.A. in Political Science and a Graduate Certificate in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and an M.A. in International Relations and a B.A. in Political Science and Latin American and Iberian Studies from the University of Massachusetts, Boston.
Her in-progress dissertation work, "Assembling Archives/Archiving Assemblages: Power, Politics, and Protest in the Queer Feminist Archive/s", examines the archive in, of, and as protest across the United States and Latin America. It explores the political effects of how ephemeral protest traces, such as street art, are curated or (re)memorialized. Their project develops grounded ephemerality as an (auto)ethnographic method that reads archival materials alongside embodied protest experiences, tethering ephemera to community. This poses the archive as a worldmaking project of resistance, prefiguration, and desire beyond a mode of exploitation, repression, and control.
Taylor is a member of Colectiva Protesta, an inter-institutional, interdisciplinary, and international feminist collaboration focused on activism in Latin America. Their co-written manifesto, “13 Theses on Feminist Protest: A Manifesto,” was published in the 50th anniversary edition of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. Taylor also has peer-reviewed work featured in The Feminist Wire Books: Connecting Feminisms, Race, and Social Justice series. Some of her creative work can be found at manywor(l)ds magazine.
Beyond academia Taylor is a labor organizer, translator, community archivist, amateur herbalist, and poet from Boston, Massachusetts.