Grace N. Ngugi is a doctoral candidate in the Departments of History & of African and African American Studies. She also has a secondary field in Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies. 

Her current research focuses on histories of gender, mobility, and intimacy in the Western Indian Ocean & their implications regionally and globally. She combines fragmentary archival material and interdisciplinary methodologies — Black feminist theory, critical memory, and archival studies, among others — to center people from the East African Swahili Coast.