Suzie Telep, an Assistant Professor for the Department of Anthropology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, is a linguistic and cultural anthropologist, jazz singer-songwriter, and Afro feminist scholar-performer working at the intersection of language, race, and artistic production in the African diaspora in postcolonial France. Telep's primary research explores how race and the Black body are constructed and negotiated through language and fashion among the Cameroonian diaspora in Paris.
She enters Black women’s cultural productions and the aesthetics of resistance they carry through African fashion, hairstyling, and Black beauty discourses and practices on digital media. Telep have published peer-reviewed articles in journals such as Signs and Society, Contemporary French Civilization, Feminist Art Practices and Research, CFC Intersections, Osnabruck Contributions to Language Theory, Langage et société, Langue française, and Le Français en Afrique.