Shani Mott, Black Studies Scholar Who Examined Power All Around Her, Dies at 47
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on March 25, 2024
Shani Mott, a scholar of Black studies at Johns Hopkins University whose examinations of race and power in America extended beyond the classroom to her employer, her city and even her own home, has died in Baltimore. She was 47.
She died of adrenal cancer on March 12, said her husband, Nathan Connolly, a professor of history at Johns Hopkins.
Though Dr. Mott spent her career in some of academia’s elite spaces, she was firmly committed to the idea that scholarship should . . .
