Candace Borders is an interdisciplinary scholar, educator and curator. Her research explores the intersections of race, gender, class and the urban Midwest, with particular attention to role of African American women in shaping the urban landscape. Her current project is a multidisciplinary history of Black women’s public housing activism in mid-20th-century St. Louis drawing upon oral history, ethnographic and archival methods. She earned a BA in American culture studies at Washington University in St. Louis in 2017 and was a John B. Ervin Scholar and Mellon Mays Scholar. You can find her most recent publication on St. Louis public housing in the collected volume In the Daylight of Our Existence: Architectural History and the Promise of Queer Theory (Zurich: gta Verlag, 2025). She also has an article forthcoming in Global Black Thought, the official journal of the African American Intellectual History Society. Her most recent curatorial work, “Our Only Hope”: Black Women and the 1969 Rent Strike, was on view in WashU Special Collections fall of 2024.