Graduate Program Alumni
Alumni of the Graduate Program in the Department of African and African American Studies

Mia L. Bagneris

Ph.D. in African and African American Studies, 2009, a primary field in History of Art and Architecture

Mia Bagneris received her PhD (History of Art and Architecture and African and African American Studies) in November 2009, and she is now teaching at Tulane University in African & African Diaspora Studies. Her dissertation, Coloring...

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Lyndon Gill

Ph.D. in African and African American Studies, 2010, with a primary field in Anthropology and a secondary field in Studies of Women, Gender & Sexuality

Lyndon K. Gill was born in New York City and raised on all the Trinbagonian culture Jamaica, Queens would allow. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford University with a B.A. in African & African American Studies. He received his Ph.D. in...

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Wendy Elizabeth Grant

Ph.D. in African and African American Studies, 2009, with a primary field in English

Wendy E. Grant received her B.A and M.Phil degrees in French and French Caribbean Literature respectively from the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. She was also awarded the A.M degree in English and American Literature and Language...

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Meghan Healy

Ph.D. in African and African American Studies, 2011, with a primary field in History
Class of 2011

Meghan Healy is an historian of modern sub-Saharan Africa, with a Ph.D. in African Studies (2011) and an M.A. in History (2007) from Harvard University, as well as a B.A. in History (2005) from the University of Chicago. She now holds a dual...

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Michael P. Jeffries

Ph.D. in African and African American Studies, 2008, with a primary field in Sociology

Michael P. Jeffries is Assistant Professor of American Studies at Wellesley College, where he teaches courses on American popular culture and the politics of race and ethnicity. His first book, Thug Life: Race, Gender, and the Meaning of Hip-Hop...

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Cameron Leader-Picone

Ph.D. in African and African American Studies, 2009, with a primary field in English

Cameron Leader-Picone is currently Assistant Professor of English at Kansas State University. He has taught in the Harvard Writing Program and at Ithaca College. He is currently working on a book on contemporary African American Literature and...

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Amber Moulton

Ph.D. in African and African American Studies, 2011, with a primary field in History
Class of 2011

Amber Moulton is a sixth year doctoral student in the Department of African and African American Studies and works primarily in the field of African American History.  She is completing her dissertation “Marriage Extraordinary: ...

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Laura Murphy

Ph.D. in African and African American Studies, 2008, with a primary field in English

Laura Murphy is Assistant Professor of global literatures in the Department of English at Loyola University New Orleans, where she researches and teaches courses on African literature, postcolonial studies, and modern day slavery. She is also a...

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Jennifer Christine Nash

Ph.D. in African and African American Studies, 2009, with a primary field in Sociology

Jennifer Christine Nash (Ph.D. 2009) is Assistant Professor of American Studies and Women's Studies at George Washington University where she researches and teaches in the areas of black feminism, black sexual politics, race and law, and the...

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Josef Sorett

Ph.D. in African and African American Studies, 2008, with a primary field in Religion

Josef (pronounced Yo-sef) Sorett is an assistant professor of Religion and African-American Studies at Columbia University.  He is an interdisciplinary historian of religion in America, with a particular focus on black communities and...

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