Taharka Anderson
Ph.D. Student
Education: M.A., Social & Cultural Analysis of Education, California State University, Long Beach, B.A., Sociology, Minor in Africana Studies, California State University, Long Beach
Interests: Black Male Studies; Anti-Blackness in School Discipline; Political Economy of Urban Education; Black Youth Resistance; Carceral Studies; Transnational Black Social Movements & Resistance; Africana Diasporic Political Thought; Black Power Studies; Black Campus Movement; Critical Race Theory; Enslavement & Colonialism; Sociology.
Lea Burgess
Ph.D. Student
Education: B.A., Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, concentration in Africana Studies, Williams College
Interests: Gender and Sexuality Studies, specifically the Politics of Sexual Pleasure and Violence for Black Girls
Sara Collins
Ph.D. Student
Education: B.A. History of Art and Design, Pratt Institute, M.A. Media Studies, Pratt Institute
Interests: History of Photography, Critical Media Theory, Visual Aesthetics, Queer of Color Critique, Black Feminisms
Bethzabeth Colon Pizzini
Ph.D. Candidate
bethcolon2020 @ utexas.edu |
GWB 3.200K
Education: M.A., African and African Diaspora Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, B.A., Political Science and Latina/o Studies, Northwestern University,
Interests: Puerto Rican music, literature, and art; Afro-Puerto Rican women's subjectivity; Pan-Caribbean cultural exchange; Black diasporic feminism.
Joshua Crutchfield
Ph.D. Student
joshualcrutchfield @ gmail.com
Education: M.A., History, Middle Tennessee State University, B.S., Psychology, Middle Tennessee State University
Interests: The Black Power Movement, The Black Radical Tradition, Black Women’s History, The Black Church, Black Religion, Prison Abolition, Mass Incarceration, The Movement for Black Lives, Social Movements, Black Internationalism, Black Marxism
Alexandria Cunningham
Ph.D. Candidate
Education: M.A., African and African Diaspora Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, B.A., Africana Studies & Sociology, Oberlin College
Interests: Black Striptease and Pole Dance Cultures, Black Feminisms, Black Popular Culture, Pleasure, Sensuality and Eroticism, Sexual Economies and Archives, Social Media, Erotic Performance Art, Sexual Education and Sex Tech
Khyree Davis
Ph.D. Candidate
Education: M.A., African & African Diaspora Studies, The University of Texas, B.A., Sociology, The University of Texas at Austin
Interests: The why/how/where of Black queer creative and political formations across diasporas as strategies of self and community survival. Black trans and queer studies, Black feminisms, queer of color critique, Black geographies, visual and popular cultural studies, Blerd aesthetics
Amanda "Semente" Caroline de Oliveira Pereira
Ph.D. Candidate
amandacaroline @ utexas.edu |
GWB 3.200K
Education: M.A., African and African Diaspora Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, B.A., African and Afro-American Studies and International and Global Studies, Brandeis University
Interests: Community building and healing through art practices in the African Diaspora; Performance, Visual Arts, Movement Arts, Latin America, Black Immigration, Black Spirituality, Black Feminist/Queer Studies
Peace And Love El Henson
Ph.D. Candidate
peaceelhenson @ utexas.edu |
GWB 3.200K
Education: M.A., African & African Diaspora Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, B.A., African American Studies Major and Education Minor, University of California, Berkeley
Interests: Peace And Love primarly focuses on: queer black femmes and their feminisms; urban/ethnography on neighborhoods and schools; antiblack state policing, captivity and genocide; as well as the pain, pleasure and power producing capacities of racialized pornographics in online professional pornography and everyday settings.
Daisy Guzman
Ph.D. Student
Education: M.A. in Spanish, University of Texas-Austin, B.S in Psychology and Spanish, Allegheny College
Interests: Blackness and Indigeneity in Central America; Garifuna/ Garifuna American transnational subjectivity; Black feminist theory and methodology in relation to Race, Gender and migration. Afro-Latino studies and Caribbean Studies.
Junika Hawker-Thompson
Ph.D. Student
Education: B.A., English Literature, Minors in African and African American Literature, Women's and Gender Studies, West Chester University of Pennsylvania
Interests: Black Feminist Literature, Politics of Care, Affect Theory, Afro-Surrealism and Non-Linear Healing Narratives, Gender Studies
Eva Hodgson
Ph.D. Candidate
evahodgsons @ utexas.edu |
GWB 3.200K
Education: M.A., African & African Diaspora Studies, The University of Texas, M.A., Occupational Health, B.A., Psychology, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Nicaragua (UNAN-León)
Interests: Gender Studies (Black Masculinity), Black History and Identity, and Mental Health on the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua.
Charles Holm
Ph.D. Candidate
crholm3 @ gmail.com |
GWB 3.200K
Education: M.A., History, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, B.A., History, German, International Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Interests: Black Radicalism, Marxism, Transnationalism, Anti-Racism, History.
Zalika Ibaorimi
Ph.D. Student
Education: M.A., African American Studies, Georgia State University, B.A., Africology and African American Studies, Temple University
Interests: Zalika U. Ibaorimi is a multidisciplinary artist and doctoral candidate. She engages Black material and digital publics as the landscape to trace the human sexual geographies between the relation of the Black femme and spectator.
Jaden Janak
Ph.D. Student
jaden.janak @ austin.utexas.edu
Education: M.A., African and African Diaspora Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, B.A., African American Studies, Saint Louis University
Interests: Prison Abolition, 20th Century Social Movements, Cultural Production, The Black Radical Tradition and Leftist Politics
Lauren Lluveras
Ph.D. Student
lauren.lluveras @ austin.utexas.edu
Education: J.D., St. Mary's University School of Law, B.A., Creative Writing, Texas A&M University
Interests: The reification and subversion of racial caricature (Blackface minstrelsy, contemptible collectibles, kitsch) in the Caribbean and how these visual cultures can be understood in the context of the capitalist/colonial/imperial machine; the role of racial caricature in the performance and materiality of Afro diasporic faiths in the Caribbean.
Candice Lyons
Ph.D. Candidate
clyons @ utexas.edu; personal website: candicelyons.net
Education: M.A., Women's and Gender Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, B.A., Philosophy, The University of Texas at Austin
Interests: My research works to consider the types of stories it becomes possible to tell when the archive is approached without the base assumption of cisheteronormativity and is rooted in: African American (Pre-20th Century) History, Black Queer Theory, Women's History, Black Feminist Theory, Slave Narratives, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Slavery Studies.
Michaela Machicote
Ph.D. Candidate
GWB 3.200K
Education: M.A., Latin American Studies, University of Texas at Austin, B.A., Latin American and Caribbean Studies, B.A., International Studies, B.A., Spanish, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Interests: African and African Diaspora Studies; Latin American and Caribbean Studies; Race and Identity; Latinx Identity; Antiblackness; Coalition and Conflict between African Americans and Latinxs; Puerto Rico and identity politics.
Sophia Monegro
Ph.D. Student
Education: B.A., English and History, The City College of New York
Interests: Black Diaspora Studies, Afro-Latinidad, Decolonial Studies, Critical Race Theory, Afro-Latina Womanism, 19th Century Geo-Politics, Literature and Tourism, Dominican Republic, Caribbean-U.S. Relations, Imperialism, Black Separatism, Neo-Colonialism, Travel Writing, Afro-Dominicanidad, Emancipation/Liberation/Freedom, Fugitivity, Afro Latina/o-African American Relations, African American Migrations to Hispaniola, Space/Place/Territories
Nathan Moore
Ph.D. Candidate
Education: M.A., English and Innovative Writing, State University of New York, Buffalo, B.A., English, University of Kentucky
Interests: Slavery Studies, Queer of color critique, Speculative fiction, Temporality, Postcolonial theory
Christopher Ndubuizu
Ph.D. Student
Education: B.A. American Studies, UC Berkeley, M.P.H, Health Behavior, Health Education, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Interests: Nigerian Immigration, Racialization of Black Immigrants, Citizenship, Black Immigrant Acculturation, Anti-Black Xenophobia
Roda Osman
Ph.D. Student
Education: Master of Science, Columbia University, B.A., English, Southern New Hampshire University
Interests: Black feminist theory, ethnography, urban social movements, Black diasporic studies, decolonial studies, cultural studies, race and gender studies
Denzel Shabazz
Ph.D. Candidate
Education: M.A., African & African Diaspora Studies, The University of Texas, B.A., Journalism & Mass Communication, The University of Wisconsin-Madison
Interests: Anti-Black Violence, Black Political Theory, Warfare, Lynching, American Slavery, Middle Passage Studies, Black Radical Tradition, Maroonage
Latoya Teague
Ph.D. Candidate
Education: M.Ed., Literacy Studies, Grand Valley State University, B.A., Secondary English Education, Wayne State University
Interests: African American Vernacular English, Literacy and Language Development in African American Communities, African American Literature
Faith Williams
Ph.D. Student
Education: M.A, Women's and Gender Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, B.S, Psychology, Women's and Gender Studies, Eastern Michigan University
Interests: Black queer studies, Black feminist theory, Black queer and trans subjectivities, visual & popular cultural studies, social media, digital self-making, performance studies
La'Kayla Williams
Ph.D. Candidate
kaylawilliams @ utexas.edu |
GWB 3.200K
Education: M.A., Women’s and Gender Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, B.A, African and African Diaspora Studies, B.S. Radio-Television-Film, The University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Black Religiosity, Performance Studies, Cultural Studies, Southern Blackness, Southern Black Aesthetics, Music Theory, The Circum-Atlantic, Black Transnationalism, the Mississippi Delta, Black Rurality
T. Anansi Wilson
Ph.D. Candidate
Education: J.D., Howard University School of Law, B.A. American Studies; Race, Sexuality & Power, Tufts University
Interests: Tabias employs Critical Race, Black Feminist, Performance and Women & Gender Studies and legal methodologies to examine how instances and (extra) legal precedents of anti-Black violence and racial-sexual terror continue to frame and impact notions of Black being. Employing a BlaQueer gaze engages the creative, the legal and the literary to uncover an emerging approach to encountering, understanding and extrapolating anti-Blackness as a legal precedent and a site of Black knowledge production.
