2023 Doctor of Philosophy in Africana Studies
Ezgi Cakmak
Dissertation Title: Citizens of a Silenced History: The Legacy of African Slavery and Racial Contours of Citizenship in the Late Ottoman Empire and Early Turkish Republic, 1857-1933
Class of December 2022
Amber Rose Johnson
Dissertation Title: Bad Mathematics: Black Experimental Poetry and Performance in 21st Century Diaspora
2023 Undergraduate Majors in Africana Studies
Alyssa N. Mann
Honors Thesis Title: The End of Legal Slavery in Massachusetts
Advisor: Professor Heather Williams
Awards: W.E.B. Du Bois Prize in Africana Studies and The Nnamdi Azikiwe Prize in African Studies
Caroline C. Higginbottom
Capstone Title: Systemic Racism and its Effects of the Cycle of Violence: A Place-Based Analysis on the Altgeld Gardens and Roseland Communities
Advisors: Professor Michael Narn and Professor Nina Johnson
Giovanna (Gigi) M. Varlotta
Dissertation Title: Save The UC Townhomes: an archive of community and resilience on 40th st.
Advisor: Professor Deborah Thomas
2023 Undergraduate Minors in Africana Studies
Chimezie J. Amaefuna
Kristen N. Arnold
Sarah Aidel Meihui Bernstein
Cate I. Boga
Jacob Chidawaya
Sabria C. Henry-Hunter
Delaney S. Holder
Kamille A. Houston
Alexys R. Knighton
Xavier L. Monroe
Ashley Oden
Joshua E. Sewell
Gibson F. Thomas
Madeline Veira
Nyah A. Williams
Alex J. Worrall