Ph.D Sociology- Race, Class, Gender Inequality and Urban Sociology
Howard University, Washington D.C.
M.S.W Howard University, Washington D.C.
B.A Administration of Justice, Howard University, Washington D.C
Research Interests:
Socio-Political and Historic Experience of African American People
Sociology of Hip Hop and The Media
Influence of Capitalism, Colonialism, and Imperialism on National and Global Inequality
Recent Publications
Spencer, Z. (2009). Feeling Like a Woman, Acting Like a Man: Real Talk about Love, Gender, and Relationships, Serendipity Literary Agency.
Spencer, Z. (Expected publication January 2010). Murda’, Misogyny, and Mayhem: Hip Hop and The Culture of Abnormality in the Urban Community Serendipity Literary Agency, University Press.
Young, V. and Spencer, Z. (2007) Multiple Jeopardy: The Impact of Race, Gender and Slavery On The Punishment of Women in Antebellum America in Race Gender and Punishment: From Colonialism to the War on Terror - Rutgers Press, New Brunswick, NJ.
Spencer, Z. (2006) A Historical Materialist Analysis of the Visual Presentation of the African American Woman in Mainstream Film, 1896 to 2004, ProQuest/ Amazon.
Spencer, Z. (2005).Cause and Consciousness: Understanding the Contemporary Relevance of the HBCU, Black Ph.D. Magazine, Tallahassee, FL.