Alumni

Dr Panashe Chigumadzi is an award-winning writer and historian. Chigumadzi is the author of These Bones Will Rise Again (2018), a historical memoir reflecting on Zimbabwe's 2017 coup and shortlisted for the 2019 Alan Paton Prize for Non-fiction. Her 2015...

Ciana Smiley '21 is a senior in Cabot House concentrating in African American Studies and Government with a focus field in juvenile justice. Ciana is a prison abolitionist whose thesis research focuses on divestment from police in Alameda County, CA and...

Chrystel Oloukoï is a PhD candidate in African and African American Studies at Harvard University, with concentrations in Social Anthropology, Critical Media Practice and Women Gender and Sexuality, as well as a predoctoral fellow at the Carter G. Woodson...

Kierstan Carter is a doctoral student in African and African American Studies with a primary field in Government (political theory). She studies the theoretical underpinnings of institutions within United States political life, with a special emphasis on...

Serena Shah '21 is a junior in Quincy House jointly concentrating in Classics and African American Studies. Her independent research explores the historical and cultural reasons behind the far-reaching circulation of Graeco-Roman names like Marcus...

Kevin Tervala is Associate Curator of African Art and Department Head for the Arts of Africa, the Americas, Asia, and the Pacific Islands (AAAPI) at The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA). He arrived at the BMA in 2015 as AAAPI’s Curatorial Fellow and assumed...

Nicholas is a doctoral candidate in African American Studies with a primary concentration in History. His research focuses on slavery, urbanization and the built environment in the Black Atlantic world. Currently he is working on a history of urban slave...

Ayodeji Ogunnaike is a doctoral student in the Department of African and African American Studies with a primary field in religion.  He received his Bachelor's degree in African Studies and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from Harvard College in...

Abigail Katz is a doctoral candidate in the Department of African and African American Studies, with a primary field in Social Anthropology. Her secondary field is in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality. Her research interests are migration and...

Warrick is a doctoral student in the Department of African and African American Studies, with a primary field in Ethnomusicology. His primary research addresses the intersections of race, ethnicity, and popular music in the Western Cape region of South...