2021 Doctor of Philosophy in Africana Studies
David Chavannes
Dissertation Title: Contending with Coloniality Through Speculation, Storytelling, And Sound Performance
Augusta Atinuke Irele
Dissertation title: Narratives of the New Diaspora: Migration and Transnationalism in Contemporary African Literature
Jasmine Blanks Jones
Dissertation Title: Performance as Public Work: Youth as Civic Actors for Policy and Practice in Liberia
Award: Graduate Student Prize for Best Dissertation in Africana Studies
2021 Undergraduate Majors in Africana Studies
Amadi N. Essoka-Lasenberry
Capstone Title: Reclaiming Reproductive Agency: Confronting the Unmet Need for Family Planning Resources in Cameroon
Adrian Charles Evans, IV
Capstone Title: Create to Liberate
Nakeeya A. Garland
Honors Thesis Title: Harbored, Hired, and Hunted: Runaway Higglers and Economic Freedom in Late 18th and Early 19th Century Jamaica
Awards: The Sadie Tanner Alexander Prize in Africana Studies, Outstanding Student Prize in Africana Studies, Phi Beta Kappa Inductee
Karen S. Kim
Capstone Title: Palimpsest Divine Being
Trapetas Catherine McGill
Capstone Title: Security and Abundance: The Case for Renewable Energy in Trinidad & Tobago
Wilnaphekie Taloute
Honors Thesis Title: Contesting Narratives: On the Afro-Cuban Woman's Deconstruction of Hegemonic Discourses
Awards: The Raymond Pace Alexander Prize in Africana Studies, Outstanding Student Prize in Africana Studies
Tiarrah M. Wilson
Capstone Title: How is Black Intimacy Portrayed in Black Media Film? How Does Spike Lee Portray Black Intimacy
2021 Undergraduate Minors in Africana Studies
Sydney N. Balfan
Greer Bizzell-Hatcher
Maya N. Brown-Hunt
Aminata S. Diane
Elizabeth C. Eckhard
Gabriella C. Finley
Kaliya A. Greenidge
Cassandra K. Jobman
Tatiana J. Johnson
Anna-Lisa C. Lowenstein
Misha S. McDaniel
James B. Peterson
Madison N. Pettaway
Madison E. Sanders
Raven O. Sulaimon
Jordan R. Tayeh
Hyacinthe Uwizera
Michael Alexander Williams
Michaela D. Zammuto