Huey Hewitt is a doctoral candidate in African American Studies with a primary field in History and a secondary field in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality. As a Harvard Presidential Scholar and Prize Fellow, Huey researches and writes about the black radical tradition; the relationship(s) between theory and practice in black freedom movements; histories of black transgender and gender nonconforming life; and the carceral state. His dissertation project concerns the history of black anarchism in the twentieth-century United States.  Huey holds a B.A. in History and Black Studies from Amherst College, where he graduated summa cum laude in 2019.