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Ph.D. Career Outcomes

  • 2024-2025: 1 Graduate
    Name Dissertation Title Dissertation Supervisor(s) First Position Current Position
     Sophia Monegro Shadow Scholars: Black Women's Thought in Santo Domingo, 1492-1900 Jossianna Arroyo-Martinez & Ashley Farmer Posdoctoral Associate at Washington University Posdoctoral Associate at Washington University
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  • 2023-2024: 1 Graduate
    Name Dissertation Title Dissertation Supervisor(s) First Position Current Position
     Joshua Crutchfield Imprisoned Black Women Intellectuals: Mae Mallory, Angela Davis, Assata Shakur, Safiya Bukhari And The Black Power Seeds Of Abolition  Ashley Farmer Posdoctoral Fellowship, (Northwestern University) Posdoctoral Fellowship, (Northwestern University)
  • 2022-2023: 6 Graduates
    Name Dissertation Title Dissertation Supervisor(s) First Position Current Position
     Alexandria C. Cunningham The Black Freak Nasty Magic Projecttm: Choreographies Of Play, Pleasure And Sexuality  Lisa B Thompson Interdisciplinary Researcher, Sexuality Practitioner & Creative Consultant (Self Employed) Interdisciplinary Researcher, Sexuality Practitioner & Creative Consultant (Self Employed)
     Daisy Guzman Garifuna Interiority: The Gendered Intimacies Of Black Indigenous Place-Making In The South Bronx  Christen A Smith Miriam Jiménez Román Postdoctoral Fellow  (Latin X Project at NYU) Miriam Jiménez Román Postdoctoral Fellow  (Latin X Project at NYU)
     Jaden M. B. Janak Experiments In Freedom: Present Histories Of An Abolitionist Future  Ashley Farmer Assistant Professor of History (St. Olaf College) Assistant Professor of History (St. Olaf College)
     Melanie Mccoy Haunted Femmes, Haunting Spectators: The Black Sexual Logics Of Desire, Pleasure, And Shame  Simone A Browne Assistant Professor of Black Sexualities in the Department of African
    American and African Studies (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
    Assistant Professor of Black Sexualities in the Department of African
    American and African Studies (Ohio State University)
     Christopher O. Ndubuizu Intertwined Migration Policies: Citizenship, Race, And Quality Of Life As They Affect Nigerian Immigrants In The United States  Omoniyi Afolabi Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Africana Studies (Williams College) Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Africana Studies (Williams College)
     Latoya Teague Black Imaginative Literacy: Black Archives, Black Storytelling, And Black Resistance  Densise Davila;  Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs (Watson Institute for Public Affairs) Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs (Watson Institute for Public Affairs)
  • 2021-2022: 7 Graduates
    Name Dissertation Title Dissertation Supervisor(s) First Position Current Position
    Amanda De Oliveira Pereira Searching For Freedom(S) In 'Wytopia': Pan-African Healing And Community Building Through Art Practices In Austin, Texas  Jossiann Arroyo Martinez John Walsh Fellow in Museum EducationJohn Walsh Fellow in Museum Education
    (Yale University Art Gallery)
    Curator of Education and Public Programs (Davis Museum)
     Eva Yadira  Hodgson Suarez Benevolent Patriarchy & Gender Violence:  Unveiling Black Men'S Illusion Of Mea Innocentia In Bluefields Nicaragua  Edmund T Gordon Faculty (Universidad de las Regiones Autónomas de la Costa Caribe Nicaragu) Faculty (Universidad de las Regiones Autónomas de la Costa Caribe Nicaragu)
     Candice Lyons Queering The Archive: Re-Examining Narratives Of U.S. Chattel Slavery  Matt Richardson; Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow (University of California, Santa BarbaraUniversity of California) Assistant ProfessorAssistant Professor
    (University of California, Santa Barbara)
     Michaela A. Machicote Jezebel By Another Name: Black Women, Carceral Geography, And The Practice Of Marronage In Chicago  Christen A Smith Postdoctoral FellowPostdoctoral Fellow
    (Johns Hopkins University)
    Postdoctoral FellowPostdoctoral Fellow
    (Johns Hopkins University)
     Nathan Moore Uncertain Times: Contingency & Black Temporal Imaginations  Hershini Young Assistant Professor
    Women and Gender Studies (University of Colorado-Boulder)
    Assistant Professor
    Women and Gender Studies (University of Colorado-Boulder)
     Denzel Shabazz Enemies Of The State: Anti-Black Violence & Warfare In America  Stephen H Marshall Manager of Campaigns & StrategyManager of Campaigns & Strategy
    (We The Protesters)
    Manager of Campaigns & StrategyManager of Campaigns & Strategy
    (We The Protesters)
     La'kayla C. Williams Sacred Bars:  Conjure Performance And The Southern Black Imagination  Lisa B Thompson Self-employed (The Last Leo Film Company) Self-employed (The Last Leo Film Company)
  • 2020-2021: 5 Graduates
    Name Dissertation Title Dissertation Supervisor(s) First Position Current Position
     Bethzabeth Colon-Pizzini Libres, Peligrosas, Y Todopoderosas: Afro-Puerto Rican Women'S Feminist Decolonial Art Through El Verano Del '19  Jossiann Arroyo Martinez Assistant Professor of Instruction
    Assistant Professor of Instruction
    (The University of Texas at Austin)

    Associate Acquisitions EditorAssociate Acquisitions Editor
    (University of Virginia Press)
     Khyree Davis Black Queer Spatialities: Lessons In Re-Mapping  Lyndon K Gill Assistant Professor of Black Studies (Middlebury College) Assistant Professor of Black Studies (Middlebury College)
    Peace and Love El Henson Race, Power, And The Pornographic: Naughty Black Femme Schoolgirls In Interracial Pornography, Public Schools, And Policing Encounters  Samantha N Pinto Black Studies Collaboratory Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of African American Studies (University of California, Berkeley) Black Studies Collaboratory Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of African American Studies (University of California, Berkeley)
     Charles Holm To Be Free From The Slavery Of Capitalism: David_Walker, Peter H. Clark,_And George Washington Woodbeys Black Socialist Thought  Minkah Makalani Assistant Professor of Instruction
    (The University of Texas at Austin)
    Managing EditorManaging Editor
    (Callaloo Literary Journal)
     Tabias Olajuawon Wilson Furtive Blackness: On Being In And Outside Of Law  Stephen H Marshall
    Associate Professor of Constitutional & Criminal LawAssociate Professor of Constitutional & Criminal Law
    (Mitchell Hamline School of Law)
    Visiting Associate Professor of Law Visiting Associate Professor of Law
    (University of Kansas School of Law)
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