Our graduate students represent a wide range of interests and aspirations, whether pursuing a master’s or doctoral degree. They represent the future of our supportive community of scholars, coming from many backgrounds and various parts of the world. Whatever their specific goals—in academia, law, social services, business, the performing arts, or education—they contribute to a long-standing conversation about race, history, and justice within our department and its course offerings.
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: The intellectual/academic life of Dr. Herman C. Hudson, Afrocentricity, Postcolonialism, Africana critical theory, Africana existential thought, Critical race theory, Marxism, and The Epistemology of Whiteness and how that intersects with slavery, colonialism, and modernity
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: Law enforcement disparities in Black communities, reactive legislation, protest and free speech policies, first amendment applications in Black movements, statute development, and constitutional law.
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: African American history, Music and Popular Culture, Social Justice, and Intersectionality
Doctoral Candidate
Research Interests: Race Relations in Late Nineteenth Century Brazil between Confederados and Afro‐Brazilians; Black Sexuality in the United States, primarily Black Polyamory.
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: Black popular and Black religious music with a specific interest in instrumentalist performing in the Black worship setting
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: Examining educational models. Specifically, looking at how Africentric and multicultural educational models curriculum influence the teaching and learning experiences of educators and students in English and Language Arts classrooms at the k-12 level
M.A. Student
Research Interests: Black feminism and Black sexuality in sex work, specifically strippers in the US. Focusing on the social, judicial, spiritual, and sexual dynamics that are present for a Black stripper in America.
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: Black History, Black Internationalism, Public Administration/Policy, and Sociology.
M.A. Student
Research Interests: the systemic oppression of race as a violation of human rights throughout the Black international to actualize its eradication and implement power structures that promote an antiracist humanity
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests
Urban Phenomenography, Urban Infrastructures, Black Sexual Politics, Performance Studies, Cultural Studies, and Psychoanalysis
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: Africana religions and spiritualities including Afro‐Catholicism and Candomblé, Afro‐Brazilian history and culture, Black Psychology, Africana theory and methodology, and race in the Americas.
M.A. Student
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: Decolonization of the Political System In West Africa using the model of the Civil Rights Movement and the African American Resilience
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: Examining Slave Revolts from the early 1800s, as well as resistances involving race, gender, and class
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: African-American music, African-American church history, and Black boys and drumming. Special focus on how African-American music serves as one of the most accurate records of the African-American journey within the US consistently throughout the years and how Black boys special connection with drumming through their African heritage can help to empower them throughout the duration of their lives.
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: explore how African women leverage digital technologies for social inclusion. It cuts across areas within Black feminist digital studies, Digital methods, African feminism(s), Black girl studies, and Gender and Digital Development.
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: Passing and Assimilation in Contemporary Black Literature preferably novels, short fiction, and humor written from 2010 and up.
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: The intersections of Black and Jewish thought and culture, Genocides and their aftermaths in both the public eye and justice systems, processes of racialization in the United States and Europe, and post-colonial theory.
M.A. Student
Research Interests: The stories of Black (especially Afro-Caribbean) girls and women in a seemingly post-colonial setting and how this interacts with their views of religion and their expectations of their own bodies.
M.A. Student
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: potential for interdisciplinary and transformative dance pedagogy and practice, embodiment,
Africanist-centered thought, performance studies, and anti-racist work.
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: African American Migration to Ghana, the Africanness of Ancient Egypt and Blacksmiths.
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests focus on the mechanics of oppressive ideologies, specifically anti-Blackness and White Supremacy in the U.S. context; Black Feminist theory; a radical politic of love and the collective; Black Social Movements; Black Radical Thought; Post-colonial Theory; Representation and the Media, and Culture Studies.
MA Student
Research Interests: Experiences of Black women in the context of higher education as it relates to opportunity and personal development, The experiences of Black expats in Japan, the potential for opportunity, personal development, and existence in the social world
M.A. Student
Ph.D. Student
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