Camille C. Carr is a first-year doctoral student in Africana Studies from Wake Forest, North Carolina. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish and Political Science, with a minor in Liberal Arts from the Blount Scholars Initiative, from the University of Alabama (2019) and a Masters of Arts in Latin American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin (2024).
Her current work explores Black women's matrilineal knowledge productions, memory work, and embodied archival praxes in the Colombian Pacific, as demonstrated through the production of an ancestral distillate of sugarcane called viche. Her master’s thesis “El viche lo cura todo: Black Women and the Archival-Political Production of Matrilineal Tradition in the Colombian Pacific,” presents viche, and its associated processes, as both an embodied archive and a political commitment for the women who preserve this ancestral craft.
Camille is also the curator of the "Spirit of Viche: Black Ancestral Tradition in the Colombian Pacific" exhibition, whose archival materials are currently housed in the Benson Latin American Collection at the University of Texas at Austin.
She completed her Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship at the Universidad Nacional in Bogotá, Colombia in 2021. Camille is dedicated to uplifting the narratives and unique insights of Black women throughout the African diaspora in Latin America.