Africana Studies / Rites and Reason Theatre

Our Students

The work of our graduate students drives us forward. Learn about their research.

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Our Students

The work of our graduate students drives us forward. Learn about their research.

Fall 2025 Cohort

Kyrie Mason

kyrie_mason@brown.edu

Fall 2024 Cohort

alea adigweme

Fall 2024 Cohort

alea_adigweme@brown.edu
Yosan Alemu

Fall 2024 Cohort
Sophia Evangeline Gumbs

Fall 2024 Cohort

sophia_gumbs@brown.edu
monaye johnson

Fall 2024 Cohort

breya_johnson@brown.edu
Lauren Prince

Fall 2024 Cohort

lauren_prince@brown.edu
Quinn Williamson

Fall 2024 Cohort

quinn_williamson@brown.edu
Camille Wise

Fall 2024 Cohort

camille_wise@brown.edu

Fall 2023 Cohort

Justina Blanco

Graduate Student, Fall 2023 Cohort

justina_blanco@brown.edu
Mickell Carter

Graduate Student, Fall 2023 Cohort

mickell_carter@brown.edu
Brooke Johnson

Graduate Student, Fall 2023 Cohort

brooke_johnson@brown.edu

Fall 2022 Cohort

Victoria Davidjohn

victoria_davidjohn@brown.edu
Arlin Hill

arlin_hill@brown.edu
Kaplan Villacorte Trudo

they/them, Graduate Student, Fall 2022 Cohort

kaplan_trudo@brown.edu

Fall 2020 Cohort

Brianna Eaton

Graduate Student, Fall 2020 Cohort

brianna_eaton@brown.edu

Program Alumni

Bedour Alagraa

Assistant Professor of Black Political and Social Theory, University of Texas at Austin
zuri arman

Graduate Student, Fall 2020 Cohort

zuriarman@brown.edu
Felicia Bishop-Denaud

Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Cincinnati
Amanda T. Boston

Assistant Professor in Africana Studies at the University of Pittsburgh
Ashley Everson

Alumni

ashley_everson@brown.edu
Melaine Ferdinand-King

Alumni

melaine_ferdinand@brown.edu
Warren Harding

Program Alumni, Assistant Professor English, General Literature and Rhetoric, Binghampton University
Eric T. Jones

Graduate Student, Fall 2018 Cohort

eric_jones@brown.edu
Lydia Kelow-Bennett

Assistant Professor of Afro-American & African Studies, University of Michigan
Kiana Knight

Alumni

kiana_knight@brown.edu
Justin A. Lang

Graduate Student, Fall 2019 Cohort

justin_a_lang@brown.edu
Nasir Marumo

Graduate Student, Fall 2018 Cohort

nasir_marumo@brown.edu
Kristen J. Maye

Clara Willis Phillips Assistant Professor of English at Mount Holyoke College
Alexandria Miller

Graduate Student, Fall 2019 Cohort

alexandria_miller@brown.edu
N'Kosi Oates

Graduate Student, Curator for Black Arts and Culture, Instruction Librarian, and Assistant Professor
Watufani M. Poe

Postdoctoral Fellow 2021-2022, Amherst College Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Incoming Assistant Professor of Black Queer Feminist Knowledges, University of Pittsburgh School of Education, Program Alumni
Michael Sawyer

Assistant Professor of Race, Ethnicity, and Migration Studies and the Department of English, Colorado College
Hadiya Sewer

Africana philosopher, art collector, and conscious business advisor based out of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands
Nicosia Shakes

Assistant Professor in the Department of History and Critical Race & Ethnic Studies, University of California, Merced
D'Ondre Swails

Assistant Professor in History and Global Black Studies at Clemson University
Britt Threatt

Alumni, Assistant Professor of English, Sewanee
Melanie White

Assistant Professor of Afro-Caribbean Studies in the Department of African American Studies and the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at Georgetown University
Shamara Wyllie Alhassan

Assistant Professor of African American Studies & Religious Studies at UCLA