Zoé Samudzi is a Provost’s Fellow to Faculty scholar in African American and Africana Studies at The Ohio State University. She holds a PhD in Medical Sociology from the University of California, San Francisco in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences. She is also a Global Blackness Research Fellow at the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of Johannesburg and a fellow with African Museums and Heritage Restitution.
She is an associate editor with Parapraxis Magazine and co-author of As Black as Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation (AK Press, 2018). She is a 2026 Public Parking editorial resident, a 2026 Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant grantee for her project, “The Citizen and the Anthropophage: Postwar/Postcolonial Italian Memory and the Cannibal Boom,”, a 2026 resident at La Becque’s Principal Residency Program, and an awardee of the 2026 Fire Station Studios' International Curator Residency.
She is represented by Alison Lewis at the Francis Goldin Literary Agency.
Download her CV here.