Current Students

Peter Corti is a PhD student in the Department of African and African American studies with a secondary field in Comparative Literature. His research interests span literature, national languages, digital humanities, and literary avant-gardes. His...

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...

Joanna Da Sylva is a doctoral student in the Department of African and African American Studies with a primary field in History. She has an MA in International Affairs from The New School and an MA in Educational Studies from The University of British...

Aminata Ndow is a Belgian-Gambian researcher, community organizer and filmmaker committed to collaborative practice and multimodal exploration. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in History from the University of Antwerp, a Master’s degree in History from...

Thiago Mattos-Batista is a Ph.D. student in the Department of African and African American Studies with a primary field in History, and is also affiliated with the Afro-Latin American Research Institute (ALARI) at the Hutchins Center. His research...

Eduarda Lira de Araujo is a PhD candidate in African and African American Studies, with a primary field in History. She holds a bachelor's degree in Africana Studies from Brown University, and a master's degree in History from Harvard University, where...

Junnan Mu is a doctoral student in the department of African and African American Studies with a primary field in Anthropology and a secondary field in Critical Media Practice. Junnan received a BA in Advertising from Zhejiang University and a MA in...

Samantha O'Sullivan is a senior in Adams House concentrating in African American Studies and Physics. Samantha founded the Generational African American Students Association under the advice of Professor Gates, which serves to provide a community for...

Maya Doig-Acuña is a PhD student in African & African American Studies with a primary field in History. Her research interests include Afro-diaspora, feminist studies, memory and family history, and Black geographies. Her current work examines 20th...

Alexandra Fair is a doctoral student in African American Studies and an AM student in the Department of the History of Science. Her research examines the linguistic strategies Anglo-American eugenic theorists use to reconstitute eugenic ideology in...