Department of Africana Studies

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, Fall 2017 Cohort
Research Interests Brazil and Latin America, Black Feminism, Caribbean Studies

Biography

Melanie White earned her B.A. in Cultural Anthropology with a minor in Africana Studies from the University of Pennsylvania where she was a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow. She holds an M.A in African and African Diaspora Studies from the University of Texas at Austin, and was awarded a Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship in 2016. Her research interests include Black social movements in Central America and the Caribbean, Afro-Nicaraguan women's cultural politics, and Black diasporic feminisms. Currently, her research considers the political implications of Afro-Nicaraguan women's visual art in the contest of the struggle for autonomy on Nicaragua's Caribbean coast.