Deleso Alford Washington

Associate Professor
Phone: 407-254-3294
Email: deleso.washington@famu.edu

Deleso WashingtonDeleso Alford Washington earned a B.S., magna cum laude at Southern University A & M College, a J.D. at Southern University Law Center, and an LL.M. at Georgetown University Law Center , Washington , DC. She is a past Fulbright Scholar- Senegal/Cote d’Ivoire and Delegate to the World Conference Against Racism in Durban , South Africa (2001). Professor Washington is an Associate Professor of Law at Florida A & M University teaching Torts I and II, Race and the Law and Bioethics and the Law. Currently, she is exploring the history of gynecology in the United States from a critical race feminist perspective and its practical application to cultural competency in medical schools. Her publications include Albany Law Review, Hamline Journal of Public Law and Policy, Georgetown Journal of Gender and The Law, American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy and the Law, and the Nova Law Review. Professor Washington is the Co-Editor of a forthcoming book entitled, Enslaved Women in America: An Encyclopedia, Co-editor, Daina Ramey Berry (Greenwood Press/ABC-CLIO).

 

 

Office Hours: Assistant :
     Tue -12 p.m. to 2 p.m.       Sharon Jenrette
    Wed -1 p.m. to 5 p.m., or by appointment       Office: 407-254-3297
      

 

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Publications by Professor Washington:

Articles:

  •  Critical Race Feminist Bioethics: Telling Stories in Law School and Medical School in Pursuit of
    “Cultural Competency” (72 Alb. L. Rev. 961 (2009)

  •  The Anatomy of a “Pantsuit”: Performance, Proxy and Presence for Women of Color in Legal Education 30 Hamline J. Pub. L. & and Pol’y 605 (2009)

  •  Hurrican Katrina and Collective Identity: Seeing Through a “Her-storical Lens”, 31 Nova L. Rev. 352 (2007).

  •  Every Shut Eye, Ain’t Sleep: Exploring the Impact of Crack Cocaine Sentencing and the Illusion of Reproductive Rights for Black Women from a Critical Race Feminist Perspective, 13 Am. U. J. Gender Soc. Pol’y & L. 1 (2004).

  •  Exploring the Black Woman’s Sphere and the Anti-Lynching Crusade of the Early Twentieth Century, 3 Geo. J. Gender & L. 895 (2002).

  •  Roots, Resistance and Responsibility: The World Conference Against Racism, Reflections Magazine, Vol. 15, No. 3 (Fall 2001).