{"id":7445,"date":"2025-04-30T16:06:47","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T23:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cagr\/?page_id=7445"},"modified":"2025-04-30T16:06:48","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T23:06:48","slug":"tommy-curry","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cagr\/profiles\/tommy-curry\/","title":{"rendered":"Tommy Curry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--scrolling-text-with-image \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--scrolling-text-with-image\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n  <div class=\"text-image-container\">\n\n          \n      <div class=\"image-container\">\n            \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img decoding=\"async\"\n                            src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cagr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/108\/2024\/04\/Scrolling-Text-Image_Tommy-Curry-Edit_20170721.jpg\"\n                    sizes=\"(min-width:1024px) 50vw, (min-width:768px) 100vw, 100vw\"\n        \n                  role=\"none\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n      <\/div>\n      \n    <div class=\"text-container\">\n  \n                  \n<div class=\"f--field f--eyebrow\">\n\n    \n  <span>Teaching Fellow<\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n        \n                  \n<div class=\"f--field f--section-title\">\n\n    \n  <h2>\n          Tommy Curry\n      <\/h2>\n\n\n<\/div>\n        \n                  \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p>2016-2017 A.I. and Manet Schepps Foundation Teaching Fellow<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Professor Curry<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0holds a Personal Chair in Africana Philosophy and Black Male Studies at the University of Edinburgh.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">Before joining the Department of Philosophy at the\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">University<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0of Edinburgh, Dr. Curry was\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">an Associate Professor in the Department<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0of Philosophy and an Affiliate Professor in the Program in Africana Studies at Texas A&amp;M University.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:2,&quot;335559739&quot;:240,&quot;335559740&quot;:300}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Professor Curry i<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">ntegrated<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0testimonies from the Visual History Archive into his graduate seminar on Black male death and dying. He spent his week of residency at the Center exploring testimonies related to sexual violence against men and boys during the Holocaust and Armenian genocides. Curry discovered that while men are usually thought to be only targeted for death during genocide, the testimonies reveal that sexual violence plays a substantial role in their oppression as well. He plans to introduce these testimonies in his class when discussing the sexualization and sexual abuse of black men and boys during slavery and the Jim Crow era. \u201cThey&#8217;re heartbreaking stories. It&#8217;s tragic,\u201d Curry said. \u201cBut at the same time, they\u2019re stories that I think deserve to be heard so we can have accounts that give a broader scope of genocidal violence (against men) beyond simply the extermination of men and boys.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:2,&quot;335559739&quot;:240,&quot;335559740&quot;:300}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n      \n          <\/div>\n\n  <\/div>\n\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n                      \n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--articles-carousel \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--articles-carousel\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n<div class=\"inner-wrapper\">\n\n      <div class=\"header-container\">\n\n                  \n<div class=\"f--field f--section-title\">\n\n    \n  <h2>\n          News\n      <\/h2>\n\n\n<\/div>\n                <\/div>\n  \n\n\n  \n  <div class=\"articles-carousel-wrapper\">\n\n  <div 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