PhDs in Progress

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.

 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.

olamina jiménez sánchez

Graduate Institution: University of California, Irvine

Department/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; nation-state; 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; language, gender, and sexuality; African American language; Black Feminist Theory; community-centered ethnography; performance; pedagogy; genre theory; and linguistic terrain.

Jovon (Makina) 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.

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. 

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.

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.