there. Harrison thought the university was an "excellent place to train graduate students interested in the African diaspora and the intersections of race, gender, and class that shape sociocultural life and political practices". 2014–present: Professor of African American Studies and Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Harrison joined the University's Anthropology department in 2014 as a professor of African American Studies, and later joined the Department of Anthropology through a partial appointment. Harrison is also a faculty affiliate with the Program on Women & Gender in Global Perspectives, the Center for African Studies, and the Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies. Harrison is currently a professor at the University, in which she has made significant contributions towards the politics and history of anthropology along with African American and African Diaspora studies. She has taught courses at the University of Illinois on Key Issues in African American Studies, Africana Feminisms, and Human Rights from Cross-Cultural Perspectives. As part of her teaching methodology, Harrison practices "anthro-performance", a combination of ethnography and performance. Harrison has utilized this methodology to dramatize the anthropological information she aims to share with her students, colleagues and the general public. To that end, Harrison has aimed to bridge anthropology with art as an alternative means of knowledge production, inspiring other diverse approaches to anthropology. A notable performance piece of Harrison's, “Three Women, One Struggle” (1990), utilizes performance to highlight how poor Black women experience common realities globally. Her performance touches upon race, class, gender, and commonalities between different cultures. Camee Maddox Wingfield, an academic at University of Maryland, Baltimore County, provided an ABA 50th anniversary special commentary on Harrison’s use of “anthro-performance” stating, “her 'anthro-performance' pedagogical technique was an exciting intervention in that it challenged the elitist norms of teaching and learning in academic institutions with which minority and working-class students often struggle.” Scholar Harrison has been recognized for her academic leadership in addition to her achievements as an educator. Within anthropology, she writes about racism, structural violence, and gender. Harrison is the author of Outsider Within: Reworking Anthropology in the Global Age, as well as the editor and contributor to Resisting Racism and Xenophobia: Global Perspectives on Race, Gender, and Human Rights, African-American Pioneers of Anthropology (co-edited), and three editions of Decolonizing Anthropology: Moving Further Toward an Anthropology for Liberation. Harrison's work has also been included in a number of major anthologies in feminist scholarship and