Graduate Students

Black Feminist Thought; nineteenth-century Black print culture; the Neo-Slave narrative; Black magical realism; nineteenth-century racial caricatures; and literary resistance.

Archival Studies; and Media Studies.

Black Studies; Black Experience in Professional Sports; Black Feminist Thought; Black Politics; Queer Theory; Pop Culture Studies; The Afterlives of Slavery; Black Joy; and Mutual Aid. 

Pop Culture and Digital Media

Twenty-first century restrictions on reproductive rights, and specifically how these restrictions impact Black women’s maternal and reproductive health. I am interested in how nineteenth-century medical discourse on Black maternal health informs today’s U.S. reproductive healthcare system, and how the afterlife of slavery shapes contemporary abortion restrictions.

Black women's health and reproductive rights, history of Black health and medicine, the afterlives of slavery in the U.S. legal system, Black feminist thought

Black intellectual history; African diaspora and transnational studies; social and political movements in the 19th and early 20th centuries; freedom and liberation struggles; and Black radical imaginaries.

Black Los Angeles, South Central Los Angeles, Black studies, Black women’s histories, Black families, gender, the aftermath of slavery, poverty, and Black literature/speculative fiction

Black Studies, Cultural Studies, Pop Culture Studies, Black Feminist Studies; Digital Globalization; African Diaspora, and Transnational Studies.

Ethnic Studies