Carol Marie Webster

Dr. Carol Marie Webster is an Artist|Scientist|Scholar committed to research, teaching, art-making, and activism centered on vulnerable populations, with specific interest in the lives and aspirations of African and African Diaspora/Black Atlantic women and their communities. Drawing on dance and the body (broadly construed) and on Womanist/Black Feminist theologies and theories, Webster constructs methodological and analytical tools in the design and development of intra/interdisciplinary research, community-building, teaching, and art-making.  Webster’s praxis examines interlocking and intersectional systems of oppression - highlighting issues around race/ethnicity, religion, health, (dis) ability, and migration, exploring the negotiations of interlocking and  intersectional liabilities in identity and belonging, and the cultivation of response, resistance, and dignity. Along with more than two decades as a professional dance artist (trained in New York City and former member of Urban Bush Women, Forces of Nature, Bill T Jones/Arnie Zane Dancers, Liz Lehman Dance Exchange), Webster holds Master Degrees in Anthropology/Cultures and Development Studies and Religious Studies from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, in Belgium. Webster earned a PhD in Sociology/Interdisciplinary Gender Studies from the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom (UK). Dr. Webster was an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Cultural Engagement Fellow at the University of Oxford, Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life at Columbia University, New York City, and two-time semi-finalists for the  American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)| Science and Technology Policy Fellowship. Webster mentors African and African Diaspora/Black Atlantic young women across the globe including Ethiopia, Ghana, Benin, Jamaica, Barbados, Trinidad, Belgium, the United States and the UK. Dr. Carol Marie Webster is currently based in/on Turtle Island (North America) in/on the homeland of the Lenape (New York City) and the Massachusetts, Pawtucket, Wampanoag, and Nipmuc (Boston) peoples.