Jenay F.E. Willis

Jenay F.E. Willis is assistant professor of higher education at the University of Mississippi. A former postdoctoral fellow for TCU’s Race & Reconciliation Initiative, she led efforts to address the necessity of illuminating and centering students’ voices and experiences pertaining to reconciliation in conjunction with faculty, staff, and administrators across TCU and the broader Fort Worth community. She was director of the RRI’s Oral History Project, which offered her the opportunity to be in conversation with individuals and communities from historically marginalized backgrounds who are affiliated with TCU. A native of the Deep South, she centers those experiences of locality in her research and highlights rurality, spatial equity, access, and opportunity in her scholarship.