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Brittnay Proctor-Habil

Assistant Professor of Race and Media

Email
proctorb@newschool.edu

Office Location
D - 79 Fifth Avenue

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Brittnay Proctor-Habil

Profile

Brittnay L. Proctor is an innovative culture and arts professional with experience in expressing intellectual vision through writing, programming, pedagogy, and mentorship. She is Assistant Professor of Race and Media in the Media Studies program at Parsons School of Design and is author of Minnie Riperton’s Come to My Garden (Bloomsbury Press: 33 1/3 Series).

She is a contributing writer for Cultbytes.

Degrees Held

Ph.D., Northwestern University

B.A., University of California, Riverside

Recent Publications

'"Pat Lipsky, Color Next to Color,'" Cultbytes, October 22, 2025. 

“To Stay and Linger, ‘Tomashi Jackson Across the Universe,’” Cultbytes, May 4, 2024.

“Ahead of Whitney Biennial, Ligia Lewis Conjures a ‘With-ness’ for ‘study now steady,’” Cultbytes, March 6, 2024.

“Nikita Gale Loosens Attitudes Around Sound With Her Performa 2023 Commission,” Cultbytes, November 10, 2023.

“Toni Cade Bambara Warned Us About Hyperfocusing On Gender,” Essence.com, December 16, 2022.

Minnie Riperton’s Come to My Garden (New York: Bloomsbury Press, 33 1/3 Series, 2022)

Current Courses

Future Courses

  • Black Music, Media & Society
    NCOM 3165 - Spring 2027
  • Gender, Culture & Media
    NMDS 5117 - Spring 2027
  • Thesis Proposal Lab
    NMDS 5952 - Spring 2027

Past Courses

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