Faye Harrison is a social scientist interested in cultivating knowledge that has implications for solving worldly problems. She also thinks that the social relations and power dynamics shaping the process and outcome of social inquiry needs to be decolonized and democratized, from the local to the global level. The 2010 UNESCO world report highlights the knowledge divides and structural disparities that characterize the social sciences on an international scale. Over the past several years, she has given intensive seminars on research methodologies (e.g., feminist, indigenous, postcolonial, critical race) and on race, gender, and sexuality in African diaspora contexts at Guizhou University in Guiyang, China; Anton de Kom University of Suriname; the University of Cape Town in South Africa; and the Federal University of Bahia in Salvador, Brazil.Her most recent publication addresses the need to rethink the social relations for theorizing as an element of knowledge production.