PhDs in Progress
The following alumni/ae are currently enrolled in doctoral programs:
Rachel Broun
Graduate Institution: Stanford University
Department/Program: Anthropology
Research Interests: Social justice, the United States legal system, legal anthropology, Black Women's experiences with the law, and fictive kinship networks
Ericka Canon
Graduate Institution: Stanford University
Department/Program: Education / Race, Inequality, and Language in Education (RILE)
Research Interests: Spanish language, linguistics, Black Latinx culture, racialization and language practices, ELL students, American public education
J. Rubén Diaz Vasquez
Graduate Institution: Stanford University
Department/Program: Modern Thought & Literature
Research Interests: US-Mexico Borderland, Chicanx and Latinx literary and cultural production, postcolonial literature, decolonial theory, the sociology of migration, race and ethnicity, cultural sociology and the production of culture, ethnography and fieldwork methods
Lynette Dixon
Graduate Institution: University of California, Los Angeles
Department/Program: Gender Studies
Research Interests: Black Feminism, Hip-Hop studies, Performance studies, aesthetics, psychoanalysis, and Queer of Color Critique
Nayive Gaytán
Graduate Institution: Washington University in St. Louis
Department/Program: Hispanic Studies / Spanish
Research Interests: Representations of race, ethnicity, and class in 20th and 21st-century Latin American literature and visual media, environmental history, and social movements
Eduardo Hazera
Graduate Institution: The University of Texas at Austin
Department/Program: Sociocultural Anthropology
Research Interests: Sound studies, development studies, indigenous populations, and ecology
Raya Islam
Graduate Institution: Yale University
Department/Program: American Studies
Research Interests: American Studies, Ethnic Studies, Urban Studies, Migration Studies, South Asian Diaspora, Decolonial Theory, Race, Class, and Space, Gentrification Studies, Community Formation, Jackson Heights and New York City
olamina jiménez sánchez
Graduate Institution: University of California, IrvineDepartment/Program: Comparative Literature
Research Interests: Black studies, psychoanalysis, continental philosophy, Black experimental poetics, documentary film, visuality and the gaze, and homelessness
Mawuko Kpodo-Klegeson
Graduate Institution: Yale University
Department/Program: Philosophy
Research Interests: Knowledge creation, subjectivity, Black women’s geographies, and the intersection of these as they pertain to larger institutional spaces
Kristin McFadden
Graduate Institution: Stanford University
Department/Program: Anthropology
Research Interests: Political and Legal Anthropology, citizenship, power dynamics, nation-states, Black political participation, and the American South
deandre miles-hercules
Graduate Institution: University of California, Santa Barbara
Department/Program: Linguistics
Research Interests: Sociocultural linguistics, race and racialization, African American language, Black Feminist Theory, community-centered ethnography, performance, pedagogy, genre theory, linguistic terrain, gender, and sexuality
Jovon Moses
Graduate Institution: The University of Chicago
Department/Program: English
Research Interests: Black Trans/Queer studies, Black feminist thought, Caribbean studies, and Native American Studies
Ángel Navarrete Ramirez
Graduate Institution: University of Southern California
Department/Program: Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture
Research Interests: Modernity, race & raciality, Caribbean Studies, Black Studies, ecocriticism, historiography, and temporality
Clara Pérez Medina
Graduate Institution: University of California, Berkeley
Department/Program: Geography
Research Interests: Venezuelan migration, intergenerational trauma, U.S.-Venezuela relations, and childhood
Amon Pierson
Graduate Institution: Princeton University
Department/Program: English
Research Interest: Afropessimism, psychoanalysis, Black feminist theory, and poetry
Christell Roach
Graduate Institution: Stanford University
Department/Program: Literature and Creative Writing
Research Interests: Blackness, the Blues, and poetry
Channelle Chevelle Russell
Graduate Institution: Columbia University
Department/Program: English and Comparative Literature
Research Interests: African American and African diaspora studies, Caribbean studies, 20th and 21st-Century American literature, contemporary literature and culture, creative writing and creative-critical, aesthetics, critical theory, cultural and intellectual history, feminist theory, and slavery
Sierra Talbert
Graduate Institution: University of California, Los Angeles
Department/Program: Information Studies
Research Interest: Human-Centered design, and responsible technological development
DaQuon Wilson
Graduate Institution: Rice University
Department/Program: English
Research Interests: African American literature, Black children's literature, Black social/cultural movements, race, and social justice
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