Africana Studies / Rites and Reason Theatre

Amanda T. Boston is a Provost's Postdoctoral Fellow at New York University and an assistant professor and faculty fellow at NYU's Marron Institute of Urban Management. She completed her Ph.D. in Africana Studies at Brown in 2018. Boston's research, writing, and teaching focus on twentieth-century African American urban history, politics, and popular culture, with an emphasis on the politics and culture of race in the post-civil rights era. Her current projects explore gentrification’s racial operations in her hometown of Brooklyn, New York, and their role in the making and unmaking of the borough’s black communities. Boston has received research funding and support from the Ford Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, among other sources. Prior to earning her Ph.D. and M.A. in Africana Studies from Brown, she earned an M.A. in Political Science and a B.A. in Political Science and African & African American Studies from Duke University. Boston is a New Alumni Trustee of Brown and sits on the alumni council of the New York City-based Prep for Prep program, which provides students of color with life-changing educational and leadership opportunities.