Alumni

Felix Germain

Assistant Professor, Africana Studies, University of Pittsburg

Caribbean and French History, and Comparative Race and Ethnicity.

Research

Racism, social inequality, and globalization; Caribbean migration to France and the United States; Gender relations and postcolonial Europe

Grace Gipson

Grace earned her in BA in Psychology and Biology from Clark Atlanta University where she graduated magna cum laude. Grace also received her MA in African American Studies at Georgia State University in May 2013. While at Georgia State, Grace served as a Graduate Representative/Liaison with the College of Arts and Sciences Graduate Council at Georgia State University, a Dr. Tsehloane C. Keto Graduate Student Leader Representative/ Board Member for the National Council of Black Studies, and the Graduate Student Representative for the University Film and Video Association. Her area of...

Jarvis R. Givens

Post Doctoral Fellow, Harvard University

Jarvis Givens studies the History of African American Education (19th and 20th Century), Education and the African Diaspora, and Race and Urban Schooling. He is currently a PhD candidate in the African American Studies Department here at UC Berkeley, where he also received his B.S. in Business Administration in 2010.

The title of Jarvis’ dissertation is, “Culture, Curriculum, and Consciousness: Resurrecting the Educational Praxis of Dr. Carter G. Woodson.” This study details the life-long work of Carter G. Woodson as an educational theorist who influenced Black teachers on a...

Justin Gomer

Assistant Professor, CSU Long Beach

Adriana Green

Adriana Green is a cross-genre writer from southern Virginia with a love of all things otherworldly. After graduating from William and Mary with her B.A. in English and a minor in Literary and Cultural Studies, Adriana worked in the non-profit and queer performance communities of Richmond, VA.

Most recently, Adriana completed her MFA in Writing at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. While in NYC she taught creative writing courses as well as black history through Afrofuturist literature at Adelphi University. While in New York, she also worked as a writing consultant at...

Elizabeth Hunter

Alumni

Elizabeth earned a MA in Cross-Cultural Studies from University of Copenhagen and a BA in Cultural Encounters and Performance Design from Roskilde University, Denmark.

She is interested in identity formation within the African diaspora in Western Europe, particularly in Scandinavia. Her focus is on possible identities for people of European and African descent, within European contexts where race is denied as a social factor. She wants to question notions of nationality and belonging within ideologies of social equality and examine how these race blind ideologies...

Malika Imhotep

Phd

Ra Malika Imhotep is a Black feminist writer and performance artist from Atlanta, Georgia currently pursuing a doctoral degree in African Diaspora Studies at the University of California, Berkeley with a Designated Emphasis in New Media. Her academic and creative work tends the relationships between Black femininity, Southern vernacular aesthetics, and the performance of labor. She is a co-convener of the embodied spiritual-political education project , The Church of Black Feminist Thought and a member of the curatorial collective, ...

Zakiyyah I. Jackson

Assistant Professor, English, USC

Zakiyyah will be a Carter Woodson postdoc at University of Virginia in the fall before starting her position as Assistant Professor of English at George Mason University.

Cherod Johnson

Postgraduate Fellow

Cherod Johnson’s research focuses on 19th and 20th century African American literature, film, and photography of the U.S. and the Caribbean; theories of race, pornography and sadomasochism, and the african diaspora; and the intersections of law, personhood, and finance capitalism. The questions that sustain Cherod’s scholarship emerge from an abiding interest in queer theory, psychoanalysis, and feminist studies.

Cherod is interested in queer articulations of blackness in African American literature and visual cultures, and how sociopolitical claims of personhood...

Jasmine Johnson

Assistant Professor, Brown University

Jasmine Johnson’s work examines the politics of black movement. Her dissertation project, Dancing Africa, Making Diaspora, is an ethnography on the growing industry of West African Dance in the United States. It considers the African dance class as a meaning making space: what began as a reconstitution of American blackness vis-a-vis a proximity to West African dance, has since grown into a flourishing economy that is today unmistakably characterized by its vast number of non-black participants. Johnson’s project examines the ways in which race, class, gender, and nationality are...