Alumni
Cohorts one through twenty-three (2001-2023)
"MMUF aims to achieve its mission by identifying and supporting students of great promise and helping them to become scholars of the highest distinction."
Cohorts 21-23 | 2021-2023
Cohort 21 (2021-2023)
olamina jiménez sánchez
African American Studies/ Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Alix Olson
Research Topic: Octavia Butler’s Black Mysticism and the Poetics of Change
Current: olamina is currently completing their Ph.D. degree in Culture and Theory at UC Irvine.
Joy Knowles (2021-22)
African American Studies/Psychology
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Pearl Dowe
Research Topic: Perceived Stigma of Mental Healthcare in Black Communities
Current: Joy serves as the lab manager of Duke University's Identity & Diversity Lab.
Cohort 22 (2022-2024)
 | Rachel Broun (2022-23) Anthropology/WGSS Faculty Mentor: Dr. Michael Peletz Research Title: "Enacting Solidarity and Finding Fictive Kinship: The Legal Consciousness of Black Women Working in the Criminal Legal System in Atlanta." Current: Rachel is currently completing her Ph.D. degree in Anthropology at Stanford University. |
 | Arturo Contreras (2022-24) Latin American and Caribbean Studies & Spanish Faculty Mentor: Dr. Yami Rodriguez Research Title: "Preserving Institutional Memory of the Emory Latinx Community through Archival Research and Oral Histories" Current: Arturo is interning at the National Museum of American History in Digital Humanities for Latino Projects. |
 | Haena "Russell" Lee (2022-23) Comparative Literature Faculty Mentor: Dr. María M. Carrión Research Title: "Crazy Woman: The Redemptive & Vengeful Figure of the Female Shaman in Modern Korean Media." |
 | Mckayla Morrison (2022-24) African American Studies & Sociology Faculty Mentor: Dr. Linette Park Research Title: "The Site of Suffering: Black Women, Violence and the Home" Current: Mckayla is taking a gap year and plans to start graduate school in fall 2025. |
 | Ángel Navarrete (2022-23) Latin American & Caribbean Studies Faculty Mentor: Dr. Thomas Rogers Research Title: "A Pedagogy of Marronage: The Case of Afrocolombians and Ethno-education." Current: Ángel is taking a gap year with plans to begin graduate school during AY 2024-25. |
 | Sierra Talbert (2022-23) Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies/Computer Science Faculty Mentor: Dr. Lauren Klein Research Title: "Human.exe: Generating Critical Theories of Humanity in Human-Computer Interaction." Current: Sierra is currently completing her Ph.D. degree in Information Studies at UCLA. |
Cohort 23 (2023-2025)
 | Christian Ballard (2023-24) African American Studies Faculty Mentor: Dr. Kyrah Malika Daniels Research Title: "New Hood Religion: Hiii Power, Ashe, and the African Spirituality of Hip Hop" Located at the intersection between Religious Studies, Music Studies, and African American Studies, this project explores Kendrick Lamar's fifth studio album, Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers, as a case study investigating the presence of African spirituality within modern hip hop. Lamar, who has long been recognized as the voice of his generation in both academic and popular circles, dons a crown of thorns on the album’s cover and extensively raps about religious themes such as soteriology and ancestor veneration throughout the work. Considering Lamar’s position of speaking to and for a generation of Black youth that is increasingly turning away from the Black Church—and often towards African Traditional Religions—his deployment of both Christian and African religious thought begs the question: How has hip-hop constructed a new religious space for Black youth? Current: Christian is the inaugural Carol Anderson Intern for Bloomsbury Publishing House. They will be teaching and hope to assist with the HipHop2020 Archive under the direction of Dr. Joycelyn Wilson at Georgia Tech later this year. |
 | Raya Islam (2023-24) Anthropology & Human Biology Faculty Mentor: Dr. Yami Rodriguez Research Title: "Mapping Bengali New York" Situated within Ethnic, Urban, American, and Migration Studies with a foundation in Decoloniality, this project seeks to understand how the Bengali community of New York-- specifically, in Jackson Heights, Queens-- formed after the enactment of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965. This research aims to contribute to ongoing discourses surrounding relational migrant community formation in New York City and the collapsing of race, class, and space in the city. Current: Raya is taking a gap year to work at museums and advocacy organizations in New York City and Atlanta while applying to graduate programs in Ethnic, Urban, and American Studies. |
 | América Moreno Ruiz (2023-24) Latin American and Caribbean Studies & Spanish Faculty Mentor: Dr. Pablo Palomino Research Title: "The Rise and Effects of an Internal Ethical Dilemma of an Undocumented Immigrant" This study uses an anthropological approach to understand the effects being an undocumented immigrant has on identity. Through ethnographic research, experiences of what the undocumented immigrant community deems as hardships and advantages will be examined. Current: América is taking a gap year and plans to start graduate school in fall 2025. |
Cohorts 11-20 | 2011 - 2020
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 | Amon Pierson Comparative Literature Faculty Mentor: Dr. Calvin Warren Research Topic: "Reading the Hieroglyph: The Em Dash in Action" is a theorization and literary analysis of the position of black women within the United States. Pierson's research argues that black women occupy an irrecoverable, undefinable, fundamental nothing. The essential nothing of black womanhood is symbolized by em dash as a hieroglyph, where image and language converge. Current: Amon is currently completing his Ph.D. degree in English from Princeton University. |
Gisell Rondón | |
Channelle Russell | |
Morissa Wisdom |
Cohort Nineteen (2019-2021)
Aaron CampbellNayive Gaytán
Current: Tiera serves as the Curatorial Research Associate at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Florida.
Vanessa Perez
English & Creative Writing
M.F.A. degree in Creative Writing, Emerson College, 05/2023
Amari Sutton
Sociology & Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies (WGSS)
DaQuon Wilson
African American Studies & Creative Writing
Cohort Eighteen (2018-2020)
Amir Adem
African American Studies
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Sun-Chul Kim
Ericka Canon
Linguistics and Spanish
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Xochitl Marsilli-Vargas
Abram Tapia
Comparative Literature & Philosophy
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Sean Meighoo
Kira Tucker
English & Creative Writing
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Michelle Gordon
Amari Sutton
 | Creative Writing and Sociology Faculty Mentor: Dr. Abigail Sewell (Sociology) Research Topic: Mexican & American Dreams: Poetry by Chicanx Writers as Transnational Sites of Ideological Contestation with Hegemonic Norms of Upward Mobility in the United States Current: Rubén is currently completing his Ph.D. degree in Modern Thought & Literature from Stanford University. |
 | Mawuko Kpodo Philosophy Faculty Mentor: Dr. Cynthia Willett (Philosophy) Research Topic: Caged In: The Everyday Particularities of Incarcerated Women |
 | Karol Oviedo Psychology and Sociology Faculty Mentors: Dr. María M. Carrión (Comparative Literature & Religion) and Dr. Timothy Dowd (Sociology) Research Topic: La Borinquena Resiste: High School Students in San Juan, Puerto Rico React to the Island's Americanization |
 | Camila Reed-Guevara Classics & History and Philosophy Faculty Mentor: Dr. Jonathan Master (Classics) Research Topic: Seneca the Younger on Education and Slavery in the Ancient Roman Empire: Equal Access to Philosophy Regardless of Genealogical Background |
 | Christell Roach African American Studies & Creative Writing Faculty Mentor: Dr. Jericho Brown (Creative Writing) Research Topic: The Bridge is Blue: Bridging the Gender Gap in Blues Poetry Through the Work of Mari Evans |
Cohort Sixteen (2016-2018)
Sariyah Benoit
African American Studies
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Carol Anderson (African American Studies)
Research Topic: Black Motherhood in Bankhead Courts During the Atlanta (Child) Murders of 1979-1981
B.A. degree, Emory College, 05/2018
Jennifer Fundora
Environmental Sciences and International Studies
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Eri Saikawa (Environmental Sciences)
Research Topic: Understanding the Deforestation Rate Change in Haiti and the Dominican Republic
B.A. degree, Emory College, 05/2018
Kristin McFadden
African American Studies and Anthropology
Faculty Mentors: Dr. Alicia DeNicola (Anthropology, Oxford College) and Dr. Vanessa Siddle Walker (African American Studies)
Research Topic: Institutionalized Resistance: Understanding Black Educational Resistance through Pedagogy and Practice
B.A. degree, Emory College, 05/2018
Current: McFadden is pursuing her Ph.D. in Anthropology at Stanford University.
deandre miles-hercules
Linguistics
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Susan Tamasi (Linguistics)
Research Topic: The Executive Function Performance of Black Bilinguals
B.A. degree, Emory College, 05/2018
Current: deandre is pursuing their Ph.D. in Linguistics at the University of California - Santa Barbara.
Jonathan Peraza
Sociology
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Timothy Dowd (Sociology)
Research Topic: Differential Racialization, Transnational Migration and Salvadoran Identity
B.A. degree, Emory College, 05/2018
Isabelle Saldana
Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Tracy Scott (Sociology)
Research Topic: Disincubations: Understanding Multiracial 'Performances of Color' as Within/Without/Against
B.A. degree, Emory College, 05/2017
Cohort Sixteen (2016-2018)
Makina Moses
English & Linguistics
Lynette Dixon
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS)
Master's degree in progress at Ohio State University
Rhianne McCalip
Anthropology
Clara Perez
Sociology
Graduate degree in progress at University of California, Berkeley
Cohort Fourteen (2014-2016)
Casidy Campbell
African American Studies
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Mark Sanders (English and African American Studies)
Research Topic: Temporality, Space and Mental Health: Theorizing Black Women in the University
B.A. degree, Emory College, 2016
Current: Dr. Campbell is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of African American Studies at Northwestern University and an Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the The Ohio State University (starting 2024).
Troizel Carr
Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Rizvanna Bradley (Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies)
Research Topic: Desire in Abundance: Black Queer Masculinity and Performance of Ontological Excess
B.A. degree, Emory College, 2015
M.A. degree in Performance Studies, New York University, 2017
Current: Carr is pursuing their Ph.D. in Performance Studies at New York University.
Ashley Crooks-Allen
Creative Writing
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Lawrence Jackson (African American Studies and English)
Research Topic: Using autobiography and memoirs as case studies for the affects of the racial ascription process on Afro-Caribbean immigrants who come to the United States
B.A. degree, Emory College, 2015
Current: Dr. Crooks-Allen is the Dubois-Mandela Rodney / Anti-Racism Collaborative Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Michigan.
Andrew Kim
Anthropology
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Craig Hadley (Anthropology)
Research Topic: Testing the Modulatory Effects of Micronutrient Malnutrition on the Food Insecurity-Mental Illness Pathway in Rural Haiti
B.A. degree, Emory College, 2015
Current: Dr. Kim is an Assistant Professor of Biological Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, and holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Northwestern University.
Bryan Natividad
African American Studies
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Carol Anderson (African American Studies and History)
Research Topic: Race, Private Wealth, and Public Education
B.A. degree, Emory College, 2016
Current: Natividad is pursuing his Ph.D. in Sociology at Brown University.
Cohort Thirteen (2013-2015)
Elizabeth "Jordie" Davies
Political Science
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Andra Gillespie (Political Science)
Research Topic: Black Political Activism Post-Civil Rights
B.A. degree, Emory College, 05/2015
Current: Dr. Davies is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine, and a postdoctoral scholar in the P3 Lab at the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago.
Jovanna Jones
Philosophy
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Cynthia Willett (Philosophy)
Research Topic: Exploring the Philosophic Reformation of Black Identity through Contemporary Photographic Movement
B.A. degree, Emory College, 05/2015
Current: Dr. Jones is an Assistant Professor of African American Literature & Culture at Boston College, and holds a Ph.D. in African American Studies and Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies from Harvard University.
Erica Sterling
History & Psychology
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Carol Anderson (African American Studies and History)
Research Topic: A Better Chance? Higher Education vs. Cultural Identity
B.A. degree, Emory College, 05/2015
Current: Dr. Sterling is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Virginia and holds a Ph.D. in History from Harvard University.
Gary Jomo Wilson
African American Studies
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Carol Anderson (African American Studies and History)
Research Topic: What is Hegemonic Opposition to African-American Education from 1954-1983? One Superintendent's Story!
B.A. degree, Emory College, 2016
Cohort Twelve (2012-2014)
Christina Cross
Sociology, Global Studies Concentration
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Robert Goddard (Spanish & Portuguese)
Research Topic: Socio-Economic and Cultural Barriers to Minority Students' Participation in International Exchange Programs
B.A. degree, Emory College, 05/2013
Ph.D. degree, University of Michigan, 2019
Current: Dr. Cross is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Harvard University and holds a Ph.D. in Public Policy & Sociology from the University of Michigan.
Julio Medina
Dance and Movement Studies/Cutural Anthropology
Faculty Mentor: Anna Leo (Dance)
Research Topic: The Influence of Hip Hop Technique and Culture on Contemporary Dance
B.A. degree, Emory College, 05/2013
M.F.A. degree in Dance, University of California Los Angeles, 6/2016
Current: Medina is an Assistant Professor of Dance at Emory University.
Cohort Eleven (2011-2013)
Robin Ayers
African American Studies
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Brett Gadsden (African American Studies & History)
Research Topic: After the Brown Decision: Private Universities' Integration of African American Students.
B.A. degree, Emory College, 05/2013
J.D. degree, American University, 05/2017
Michael David Harris
Philosophy
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Ann Hartle (Philosophy)
Research Topic: The Ambivalent Position of Christian Eschatology from Augustine to Aquinas.
B.A. degree, Emory College, 05/2013
Eduardo Hazera
Music & Biology
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Tong Soon Lee (Music)
Research Topic: Innovation and Conformity in North Indian Classical Music.
B.A. degree, Emory College, 05/2013
Current: Hazera is pursuing his Ph.D. in Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin.
Silvia Mejia
Religion & Sociology
Faculty Mentor: Dr. David Gowler (Religion, Oxford College)
Research Topic:Spirituality and Social Change in Latin America.
B.A. degree, Emory College, 05/2013
M.Div. degree, Harvard University, 05/2016
Olivia Odoffin
Philosophy & Cognitive Psychology
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Robert McCauley (Philosophy)
Research Topic: Using the Empirical Findings of Consciousness to Rethink the Transitivity Principle.
B.A. degree, Emory College, 05/2013
Current: Dr. Odoffin is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Philosophical Psychology at the University of Antwerp.
Perrinh Savang
Gender and Sexuality Studies & Anthropology
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Leslie Harris (History & African American Studies)
Research Topic: Analyzing the Role of Stigmatization in Constructing LGBT Identities.
B.A. degree, Emory College, 05/2013
Current: Savang is a third-grade teacher and Equity Coach at DC Public School in Washington, DC.
Cohorts 1-10 | 2001 - 2010
Cohort Ten (2010-2012)
Henry Love
History
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Dianne Stewart (Religion & African American Studies)
Research Topic: Power Women: British Colonialism and the Decline of Institutionalized Yoruba Feminine Agency, 1900-1960.
B.A. degree, Emory College, 05/2012
M.A. degree in Sociology and Education Policy, Columbia University, 2014
Brianna N. Mack
Political Science & African American Studies
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Andra Gillespie (Political Science)
Research Topic: Problematizing Dawson's Theory of Linked Fate through Chronicling African American Elites' Representation of African American Constituents and Current Trends in African American Politics.
B.A. degree, Emory College, 05/2012
M.A. degree, The Ohio State University, 2015
Ph.D. degree, The Ohio State University, 2018
Current: Mack is an Assistant Professor of Politics and Government at Ohio Wesleyan University.
Katherine (Matthews) Hilson
African American Studies & Sociology
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Nagueyalti Warren (African American Studies)
Research Topic: Mass Incarceration: Tracing History's Steps to Broaden the Definition to Pre-1970 and the War on Drugs.
B.A. degree, Emory College, 05/2012
Ph.D. degree, Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2018.
Jacinta Saffold
African American Studies & Educational Studies
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Nagueyalti Warren (African American Studies)
Research Topic: Reading Between the Lines: An Exploration of the Similarities and Differences in Literature During the Black Arts Movement in the United States and the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa.
B.A. degree, Emory College, 05/2012
Ph.D. degree, African American Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2017
Garrett Turner
Creative Writing & Music
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Rudolph Byrd (Goodrich C. White Professor of American Studies)
Research Topic: Spoken Word Poetry: The Origins, Evolution, and Enduring Relevance of a Literary Tradition.
B.A. degree, Emory College, 05/2011
M.A. degree in Theatre, Queen Mary, University of London, 2013
M.A. degree in Musical Theatre, Central School of Speech and Drama at University of London, 2016
Cohort Nine (2009-2011)
Khytie Brown
Major: Sociology and Religion
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Dianne Stewart (Religion & African American Studies)
Research Topic: Culture Clash: Dancehall Music and Jamaican Society
B.A. degree, Emory College, 05/2010
M.T.S. degree, Harvard Divinity School, Harvard University, 2013
Current: Khytie Brown is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies. She is an ethnographer and scholar of African diaspora religions and African and African American studies.
Jasmine Johnson
Major: Philosophy & Sociology
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Lawrence Jackson (English & African American Studies)
Research Topic: Achieving the School-to-Prison Pipeline Through Zero Tolerance Policies
Marina Santiago
Major: Linguistics
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Susan Tamasi (Anthropology)
Research Topic: The Use of Identity Terms and Linguistic Construction of a Queer Identity
B.A. degree, Emory College, 2011
Cohort Eight (2008-2010)
Anni Pullagura
Major: Art History
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Cheryl Crowley (Japanese, Russian & East Asian Studies)
Research Topic: Behind the Glass: The History of Representation in the National Museum of the American Indian
B.A. degree, Emory College, 12/2010
Christina Welsch
Major: History
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Tonio Andrade (History)
Research Topic: Forging the Conqueror's Sword: How Two Indias Created One Empire
B.A. degree, Emory College, 05/2010
Ph.D. degree, History, Princeton University, 2017
Olivia Wise
Major: English and Women's Studies
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Lynn Huffer (Women's Studies)
Research Topic: When He and She Don't Fit: Pronoun Use and Gender Performativity
B.A. degree, Emory College, 05/2010
Cohort Seven (2007-2009)
Monique Dorsainvil
Major: Women's Studies
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Regine Jackson (Graduate Institute of Liberal Arts)
Research Topic: Resisting the Margins: Black Lesbian Self-Definition and Epistemology
B.A. degree, Emory College, 05/2009
Cohort Six (2006-2008)
Sachelle Ford
Major: English
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Lawrence Jackson (English and African American Studies)
Research Topic: African American Women's Literature: Toni Morrison and Alice Walker
B.A. degree, Emory College, 05/2008
Ph.D. degree, English, Brown University, 2015
Elizabeth Ju
Major: Biology and Music
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Kristin Wendland (Music)
Research Topic: The Assimilation of the Social Dance, Tango, into Early US Culture
B.S. degree, Emory College, 12/2007
M.D. degree, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, 2016
Cohort Five (2005-2007)
O. Sherry AkandeNielsen
Major: History and African American Studies
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Thomas Burns (History)
Research Topic: Ethnicity in Ancient Rome and Modern South Africa
B.A. degree, Emory College, 05/2006
J.D. degree, Emory University, 2012
Shawn Finnell Punancy
Major: Anthropology and Political Science
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Tracy Rone (Anthropology)
Research Topic: The Cultural Psychology of Race: Linguistic Considerations
B.A. degree, Emory College, 05/2006
M.S. degree, International Affairs, Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at Georgia Institute of Technology (GIT), 2011
Zachary Manfredi
Major: Comparative Literature and Interdisciplinary Studies
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Elizabeth Goodstein (Graduate Institute of Liberal Arts)
Research Topic: Philosophical Questions in the Wake of F. Nietzsche
B.A. degree, Emory College, 05/2007
M.A. degree in Political Science, Oxford University, 2009
J.D. degree, Yale University, 2017
Nicole Naar
Major: Anthropology, Human Biology and Environmental Studies
Faculty Mentor: Dr. George Armelagos (Anthropology)
Research Topic: Cultural Evolutionary Perspectives on Development: A Case Study of Puerto San Carlos, Baja California, Mexico
B.S. degree, Emory College, 05/2007
Current: Naar is pursuing her Ph.D. in Anthropology at the University of California, Davis.
Sterling Winchester
Major: Music and Russian
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Lyn Bertrand (Music)
Research Topic: The Concept of Russian Faith in the Music of Sophia Gubaidulin
B.A. degree, Emory College, 05/2007
J.D. degree, Emory University, 2013
Cohort Four (2004-2006)
Elana Jefferson-Tatum
Major: Religion
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Dianne Stewart (Religion and African American Studies)
Research Topic: Does God Hear Black Christians in Their ‘Language?'
B.A. degree, Emory College, 05/2006
M.T.S. degree, Harvard Divinity School, Harvard University, 2009
Ph.D. degree, Religion, Emory University, 2016
Marcus Jerkins
Major: Religion and African American Studies
Faculty Mentors: Dr. Dianne Stewart (Religion & African American Studies) and Dr. Mark Sanders (English & African American Studies)
Research Topic: The Faith of African Americans and Their View of the Trinity
B.A. degree, Emory College, 05/2006
M.Div. degree, Candler School of Theology, Emory University, 2009
ThM degree, Candler School of Theology, Emory University, 2012
Dominique Johnson
Major: English and Women's Studies
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Lawrence Jackson (English and African American Studies)
Research Topic: Self-perception and Body Image among Black Women in Literature
B.A. degree, Emory College, 05/2006
M.A. degree in Communication, Johns Hopkins University, 2010
Ph.D. degree, Communication, University of Pittsburg, 2017
Current: Johnson was recently awarded the 2018 Eric O. Clarke Dissertation Prize for her 2017 dissertation, "Beyond Bare Life: Onto-Epistemic Archives, Precarity, and the Praxis of Being Human," which she completed for her PhD in Communication.
Sonia Santamaria
Major: Philosophy and History
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Susan Ashmore (History, Oxford College)
Research Topic: History as Collective Memory
B.A. degree, Emory College, 12/2006
M.A. degree in History, University of Mississippi, 2010
Cohort Three (2003-2005)
Jessica Bardill
Major: English
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Deepika Bahri (English)
Research Topic: The Influence of the New Tongue: The Effects of Colonialism Upon Mixed English Use in Postcolonial Literature
B.A. degree, Emory College, 05/2005
Ph.D. degree, English, Duke University, 2011
Daniel Green
Major: Political Science
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Dianne Diakité (Religion and African American Studies)
Research Topic: Hip Hop and Contemporary Religious Discourses
B.A. degree, Emory College, 05/2005
J.D. degree, Case Western Reserve University School of Law, 2009
Devin Murphy
Major: Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture
Faculty Mentor: Dr. María M. Carrión (Spanish)
Research Topic: Using the Master's Tools in the Master's House: Replicating Phallocentrism within Resistance Discourse
B.A. degree, Emory College, 08/2006
M.A. degree in American Studies, New York University, 2008
ABD, New York University
Amber Walker
Major: African American Studies and Political Science
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Leroy Davis (History)
Research Topic: From the Shadows Into the Line of Fire: Black Female Radicals of the 20th Century
B.A. degree, Emory College, 05/2005
J.D. degree, University of California, Los Angeles, 2008
Cohort Two (2002-2004)
Jamie Lee
Major: French Studies
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Valerie Loichot (French & Italian)
Research Topic: Mother/Daughter Relationships in the Films of Sembene Ousmane
B.A. degree, Emory College, 05/2004
Sara Madavo
Major: English and African American Studies
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Mark Sanders (English)
Research Topic: The Representation of the Mulatto in African American Literature
B.A. degree, Emory College, 05/2004
J.D. degree, Harvard University, 2010
Miel Mason Wilson
Major: French Studies
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Valerie Loichot (French & Italian)
Research Topic: Gender and Sexuality in Edwidge Danticat's Breath, Eyes, and Memory
B.A. degree, Emory College, 05/2004
Ph.D degree, American Civilization, Brown University, 2015
Cohort One (2001-2003)
Tammy Crittenden
Major: Middle Eastern Studies
Faculty Mentors: Dr. Devin Stewart & Dr. Mahmoud Al-Batal (Middle Eastern Studies)
Research Topic: Democratic Movements in Islam
B.A. degree, Emory College, 05/2003
M.I.P.P. degree, School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), The Johns Hopkins University, 2005
Stacy Earl
Major: African American Studies
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Leroy Davis (History)
Research Topic: Immigration Patterns in the Black Atlantic World: the Caribbean and the United States
B.A. degree, Emory College, 05/2003
Celeste Lee
Major: Sociology
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Regina Werum (Department of Sociology)
Research Topic: Retention of Black Students in Public Secondary Schools in the USA
B.A. degree, Emory College, 05/2003
M.A.T. degree in Social Studies, Duke University, May 2004
Ph.D. degree, Sociology, Emory University, 2015
Kristy Offitt
Major: Political Science
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Susan Ashmore (History, Oxford College)
Research Topic: Educational Policy
B.A. degree, Emory College, 08/2003
J.D. degree, University of Southern California Law School, 2007