2025 Graduates

(Graduated August 2024)

Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at San Francisco State University

Dissertation Title: Brazil After Dark: Haunting, Memory, and Desire in North-Northeast Brazil

Advisor: Jasmine Johnson, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies

Capstone Title: African Immigrant Health and Healing

Advisor: Professor David Amponsah, Presidential Assistant Professor of Africana 

Capstone Title: Afro/African-Futurism and Diasporic Identity

Advisor:  Professor David Amponsah, Presidential Assistant Professor of Africana 

Capstone Title: Sighting Black Deaf Voices: Deaf Schools and Integration

Advisor: Professor David Amponsah, Presidential Assistant Professor of Africana

(Graduated Fall 2024)

Capstone Title: The Evolution of Athlete Activism

Advisor: Professor Kelly Harris, Senior Staff Director, Center for Africana Studies

Honors Thesis Title: Cosmopolitanism as Resistance: African Women, Hidden Identities, and the Contemporary Arts Movement

Advisor: Professor Valencia Silva Santos

Prizes: African Studies Senior Thesis Prize

President’s Engagement, Innovation, and Sustainability Prize

Capstone Title: Echoes Of Racialized Housing Policy and the Ongoing Displacement of Black Communities in Cities

Advisor: Professor Marcia Chatelain, Presidential Penn Compact Professor of Africana Studies

(Graduated Fall 2024)

Honors Thesis Title: "The Hope of Mutual Aid and Communalism: A History, and Reckoning with Capitalistic America"

Advisor: Professor Marcia Chatelain

Prizes: The Sadie Tanner Alexander Prize in Africana Studies

The John Edgar Wideman Prize in Africana Studies