Tanisha C. Ford is an award-winning writer, cultural critic, and associate professor of Africana studies and history at the University of Delaware. She is the author of Liberated Threads: Black Women, Style, and the Global Politics of Soul (2015), which won the 2016 Organization of American Historians' Liberty Legacy Foundation Award for best book on civil rights history. She was featured in Aperture's Fall 2017 issue, "Elements of Style," among other publications, including Elle, the Atlantic, the Root, the Feminist Wire, Cognoscenti, the New York Times, the New Yorker, Ebony, NPR's Code Switch, and New York Magazine: The Cut. Ford is a cofounder of TEXTURES, a pop-up material culture lab, creating and curating content on fashion and the built environment.