PhDs in Progress
The following alumni/ae are currently enrolled in doctoral programs:
Rachel Broun | Graduate Institution: Stanford University Department/Program: Anthropology Field of Interest(s): Social justice; the United States legal system; legal anthropology; Black Women's experiences with the law; and fictive kinship networks. |
J. Rubén Diaz Vasquez | Graduate Institution: Stanford University Department/Program: Modern Thought & Literature Field of Interest(s): 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 Field of Interest(s): 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 Field of Interest(s): 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 Field of Interest(s): Sound studies; development studies; indigenous populations; and ecology. |
olamina jiménez sánchez | Graduate Institution: University of California, Irvine Department/Program: Culture & Theory Field of Interest(s): Black Studies; anarchist studies; intentional communities; mutual aid; speculative fiction as sites of inquiry; and psychoanalysis. |
Mawuko Kpodo-Klegeson | Graduate Institution: Yale University Department/Program: Philosophy Field of Interest(s): 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 Field of Interest(s): Political and Legal Anthropology; citizenship; power; nation-state; Black political participation; and the American South. |
deandre miles-hercules | Graduate Institution: University of California, Santa Barbara Department/Program: Linguistics Field of Interest(s): Sociocultural linguistics; race and racialization; language, gender, and sexuality; African American language; Black Feminist Theory; community-centered ethnography; performance; pedagogy; genre theory; and linguistic terrain. |
Makina Moses | Graduate Institution: The University of Chicago Department/Program: English Field of Interest(s): Black Trans/Queer Studies; Black Feminist Thought; Caribbean Studies; and Native American Studies. |
Bryan Natividad | Graduate Institution: Brown University Department/Program: Sociology and Population Studies Field of Interest(s): Educational attainment; inequality; race and ethnicity; immigration; and the sociology of education. |
Clara Perez | Graduate Institution: University of California, Berkeley Department/Program: Sociology Field of Interest(s): Climate change; social systems and the environment; legacies of colonialism; climate vulnerability; and race. |
Amon Pierson | Graduate Institution: Princeton University Department/Program: English Field of Interest(s): Afropessimism, psychoanalysis, Black Feminist Theory; and poetry. |
Last updated July 2023.