Cassondra Hanna is a doctoral student at Harvard University in the Department of African and African American Studies with a primary field in History. Her research interests live in the intersections of race, space and education in the making of modern America. Currently, her work traces the evolution of the historically Black Avery College through questions of American Capitalism, Slavery, Expansion and Industrialization and the history of the Ohio River Valley. Cassondra holds a master’s degree in history from the University of Virginia and a bachelor’s degree in History and African American Studies from Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, where she was a UNCF/Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow. Her advisor is Dr. Jarvis Givens.