Angelica Allen
Ph.D. Candidate
aja1188@aol.com |
GWB 3.200K
Education: M.A., Africana Studies, New York University, B.F.A., Art Education, University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Black Diaspora Studies, The Black Pacific, Afro-Asian Diaspora, Philippine Afro-Amerasians, Black Indigenous Communities in the Philippines, Visual Studies.
Lea Burgess
Ph.D. Student
Education: B.A., Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, concentration in Africana Studies, Williams College
Interests: Black women's sexual and reproductive labor under slavery, intraracial oppression/colorism/African American hegemony, linkages between Afro diasporic religions and slave resistance, Racial formation and antiracist activism in black Western Europe
Gustavo Cerqueira
Ph.D. Candidate
Education: B.A., Universidade Federal da Bahia (Federal University of Bahia), M.A. University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Black performance aesthetics and politics in Brazil.
Bethzabeth Colon Pizzini
Ph.D. Student
bethcolon2020@utexas.edu |
GWB 3.200K
Education: 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.
Alexandria Cunningham
Ph.D. Student
Education: B.A., Africana Studies & Sociology, Oberlin College
Interests: Black Feminisms, Black Sexual Politics, Fantasy and Eroticism, Sexual Economies, Hip-Hop, Popular and Strip Club Culture
Khyree Davis
Ph.D. Student
Education: 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
Peace And Love El Henson
Ph.D. Student
peaceelhenson@utexas.edu |
GWB 3.200K
Education: B.A, African American Studies,University of California, Berkeley., Minor in Education, Graduate School of Education, University of California, Berkeley.
Interests: Anthropological, sociological, educational, psychoanalytical, and archival and historical research methodologies to study the lived experiences of Black communities, particularly in low-income neighborhoods, in the United States.
Daniela Gomes Da Silva
Ph.D. Candidate
danielagomes@utexas.edu |
GWB 3.200K
Education: M.A., Cultural Studies, Universidade de Sao Paulo (University of Sao Paulo), B.A., Journalism, Universidade Metodista de Sao Paulo (Methodist University of Sao Paulo)
Interests: African and African Diaspora Studies, Hip Hop Studies, Afro Brazilian Studies, African American Studies, Cultural Studies and Communication Studies
Natassja Gunasena
Ph.D. Candidate
natassja.gunasena@gmail.com |
GWB 3.200K
Education: M.A., African and African Diaspora Studies, University of Texas at Austin, B.A., Minnesota State University Moorhead
Interests: Queer afro-Asian femininities and the politics of beauty.
Eva Hodgson
Ph.D. Student
evahodgsons@utexas.edu |
GWB 3.200K
Education: 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: Sexual shaming and deviant Blackness as subsets of Black Sexual Politics through an Afrofuturist and Afrosurrealist lens
Auzimuth Jackson
Ph.D. Candidate
asjackson@utexas.edu |
GWB 3.200K
Education: M.A., African and African Diaspora Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, B.A., Philosophy, Southwestern University
Interests: Bad Faith and Socio-Political Alliance ("Allyship"); (Black) Existentialism; Black Political Philosophy; Phenomenology of Black Music.
Noelle Janak
Ph.D. Student
Education: B.A., African American Studies, Saint Louis University
Interests: Prison Abolition, Hip-Hop Feminism, 20th Century Social Movements, Popular Culture, The Black Radical Tradition and Black Power
Chantaneice Kitt
Ph.D. Student
ckitt@utexas.edu |
GWB 3.200K
Education: B.A., African American Studies and Sociology
Interests: Tattoos, Black Visual Culture, and Popular Culture.
Paul Joseph López Oro
Ph.D. Candidate
LopezOro@utexas.edu |
GWB 3.200K
Education: M.A., African American Studies, Northwestern University; MS.Ed., Special Education, Hunter College (CUNY), M.A., Latin American Studies, The University of New Mexico, B.A., History, St. John's University
Interests: Blackness and Indigeneity in Central America’s Caribbean Coasts; Afro-Latinos in the United States; Histories and ethnographies of the African Diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean, Black Feminist & Black Queer Theory, Garifuna Transnational Migrations, Afro-Latino Studies, and U.S. Black Popular Culture
Candice Lyons
Ph.D. Student
Education: M.A., Women's and Gender Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, B.A., Philosophy, The University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Enslaved Black women and the archive; Black queer theory; and Black feminist theory
Michaela Machicote
Ph.D. Student
mmachicote@gmail.com |
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. Student
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
William Mosley
Ph.D. Candidate
williammosley12@gmail.com |
GWB 3.200K
Education: M.A., English, University of Texas at Austin, B.A., Biology and English, Amherst College
Interests: Black Queer Studies, Black (trans-)Feminist epistemologies, Black expressive cultures, Diasporic queerness, African American speculative fiction, Black podcasts, queer Hip Hop, Black Southern vernaculars, intimacy, kinship, #BlackTransLivesMatter, Black genders and sexualities, Black radical imaginaries, activism as pedagogy, protest and subversion.
Caitlin O'Neill
Ph.D. Candidate
caitlinoapostropheneill@gmail.com |
GWB 3.200K
Education: M.A., University of Texas at Austin, B.A., Oberlin College
Interests: Black feminist theory, Black speculative fiction, and the ontologies of Black mermaids, sirens, and monsters.
Tabias Olajuawon 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.
Chinwe Oriji
Ph.D. Candidate
chinweoriji@utexas.edu |
GWB 3.200K
Education: M.Phil. University of Cambridge, B.A., Rutgers University
Interests: Race and Immigration, Critical Race Theory, Contemporary African Immigration to the U.S., Children of Immigrants, Race in Africa, African Diaspora, Social Memory
Amanda Pereira
Ph.D. Student
amandacaroline@utexas.edu |
GWB 3.200K
Education: B.A., African and Afro-American Studies and International and Global Studies, Brandeis University
Interests: The conditions of Black life in Latin America and Afro-Latinx immigration to the U.S.
Denzel Shabazz
Ph.D. Student
Education: B.A., Journalism & Mass Communication, The University of Wisconsin-Madison
Interests: Research aims to analyze the relationship between contemporary anti-Black violence and the legacy of lynching in America
Latoya Teague
Ph.D. Student
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
La'Kayla Williams
Ph.D. Student
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.A. Radio-Television-Film, The University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Southern Black Women’s Performance in the Digital Sphere; Black Performance Theory; Black Art Theory; Black Music Theory; Black Cultural Studies; Southern Regionalism; Rural vs. Urban Southern spaces; The Great Migrations; Circum-Atlantic Memory and Modernity; Afro-Syncretic Cosmologies; Black Spirituality in the Deep South; the Mississippi Delta as the center of Anti-Black violence; rural Black women’s community organizing and activism.
Traci-Ann Wint
Ph.D. Candidate
trwint@utexas.edu |
GWB 3.200K
Education: M.A., Anthropology, The University of Texas at Austin, B.A., Anthropology and African Studies, Vassar College; Techniques in Video Production (certificate), Media and Tech Institute (Jamaica)
Interests: Tourism, Collective Memory and National Identity, Blackness as Commodity, Conceptualizations of the Caribbean, Representation and Media
