Alumni

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...

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...

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.

Libby Lewis is a Lecturer at the University of California, Los Angeles with research and teaching interests that include: Media Studies, Communications, African American Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and American Studies.. Her current book, The Myth of Post-racialism in Television News focuses on how journalists negotiate their race, gender, and sexuality in a corporate newsroom culture. The book foregrounds the experiences of Black journalists. Dr. Lewis travels the world, speaking and consulting with diverse audiences on a wide range of subjects including Media, Marketing,...