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
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
Education: M.A., History, Middle Tennessee State University, B.S., Psychology, Middle Tennessee State University
Interests: The Black Power Movement, The Black Radical Tradition, The Black Church, Black Religion, Prison Abolition, Mass Incarceration, The Black Lives Matter Movement, Social Movements
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 Feminisms, Black Sexual Politics, Fantasy and Eroticism, Sexual Economies, Hip-Hop, Popular and Strip Club Culture
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, 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.
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.
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: 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.
Jaden 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.
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.
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. Candidate
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. Candidate
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. 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
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.
Roda Osman
Ph.D. Student
Education: Master of Science, Columbia University, B.A., English, Southern New Hampshire University
Interests: black feminist theory, black diasporic studies, decolonial studies, black feminist, cultural studies, 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: Research aims to analyze the relationship between contemporary anti-Black violence and the legacy of lynching in America
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
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.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.
