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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.

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Program Alumni

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    Bedour Alagraa

    Assistant Professor of Black Political and Social Theory, University of Texas at Austin
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    Felicia Bishop-Denaud

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

    Assistant Professor in Africana Studies at the University of Pittsburgh
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    Warren Harding

    Program Alumni, Assistant Professor English, General Literature and Rhetoric, Binghampton University
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    Lydia Kelow-Bennett

    Assistant Professor of Afro-American & African Studies, University of Michigan
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    Kristen J. Maye

    Clara Willis Phillips Assistant Professor of English at Mount Holyoke College
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    N'Kosi Oates

    Graduate Student, Curator for Black Arts and Culture, Instruction Librarian, and Assistant Professor
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    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
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    Michael Sawyer

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

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

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

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

    Graduate Student, Assistant Professor of English, Sewanee
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    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
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    Shamara Wyllie Alhassan

    Assistant Professor of African American Studies & Religious Studies at UCLA