Africana Studies / Rites and Reason Theatre

Research Interests - Black Feminist Ecologies, Critical Disaster Studies, Caribbean Studies

Lauren Prince received her B.A. with the highest distinction in Political & Social Thought and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from the University of Virginia. Her research interests lie at the intersection of Black feminist studies, Black ecologies, critical disaster studies, and (de)colonial studies. As she pursues her PhD in Africana Studies, she hopes to study the production of Black vulnerability to environmental disasters in the African diaspora and explore Black feminist community responses to such disasters, with particular attention to often-overlooked islands under the U.S. Empire (i.e., the U.S. Virgin Islands). In addition to being a graduate student, Lauren is a member of the After the Storm collective, a microlab of the Diaspora Solidarities Lab that aims to create digital maps and archives that record the survival of Afro-Descendant/Black people across the Greater Caribbean. In her free time, Lauren enjoys music, reading, bartending, and sitting with her grandpa on his porch in St. John, USVI.