Shaonta’ Allen (pronounced shay-on-tay) is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Dartmouth College. She’s been named a Mellon Faculty Fellow, a Young Scholar in Social Movements, a Sacred Writes Public Scholar of Religion, a P.E.O. International Scholar, a Southern Regional Education Board Fellow, a Veritas Forum Scholar, and has received the African-American Cultural Heritage Action Fund Research Fellowship. Her research interests broadly include race & ethnic relations, social movements, intersectionality, and religion. In particular, her work examines how Black Americans perceive and respond to racial inequality and how this resistance varies across institutional contexts. Her research has been published in Social Problems, Sociology Compass, Sociological Perspectives, Religions, and Humanity & Society. To date, Shaonta’ has received several awards including Dartmouth College’s Goldthree Award for Scholarly Excellence & Community Engagement and the University of Cincinnati’s Excellence Award for Outstanding Initiative. Believing in the radical potential of sociology, she teaches and produces research with the goal of facilitating social change.