Graduate Students

Research Interests:

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. 

Subfield(s):

Pop Culture and Digital Media

Contact Information

Email: avalonrosebrice@g.ucla.edu

Research Interests:

Black storytelling, Cultural representation, Documentary filmmaking, Black fatherhood portrayal, Family dynamics, Historical narratives, Media inclusion, Visual empowerment, Black Film

Subfield(s):

Film, Television, and Visual Media

Contact Information

Email: cinematicdavis@ucla.edu

Research Interests:

Kinship; methods of resistance; narrative as a way knowing; and pop culture.

Subfield(s):

Popular Culture

Contact Information

Email: khagans@g.ucla.edu

Research Interests:

Black empowerment through video games and Black student outcomes in the public school system.

Subfield(s):

Education

Contact Information

Email: joshuajackson@g.ucla.edu

Research Interests:

Black entertainment; African American popular culture; domestic slavery; modern Jim Crow; Reconstruction Era; and social/cultural history.

Subfield(s):

African Diaspora

Contact Information

Email: robinson.adamca@gmail.com

Research Interests:

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

Subfield(s):

Ethnic Studies

Contact Information

Email: jtankou@g.ucla.edu

Research Interests:

Black Studies; pop culture studies; Black Visualities; African aesthetics in film; African Diaspora; cultural memory; Black Feminist Studies; Black Queer Studies; sociocultural imagination; and cultural studies.

Subfield(s):

Cultural Studies, digital media, film and television, media and communication, gender and sexuality

Contact Information

Email: nwaititu@g.ucla.edu

Research Interests:

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. 

Subfield(s):

Pop Culture and Digital Media

Contact Information

Email: avalonrosebrice@g.ucla.edu

Research Interests:

Black storytelling, Cultural representation, Documentary filmmaking, Black fatherhood portrayal, Family dynamics, Historical narratives, Media inclusion, Visual empowerment, Black Film

Subfield(s):

Film, Television, and Visual Media

Contact Information

Email: cinematicdavis@ucla.edu

Research Interests:

Kinship; methods of resistance; narrative as a way knowing; and pop culture.

Subfield(s):

Popular Culture

Contact Information

Email: khagans@g.ucla.edu

Research Interests:

Black empowerment through video games and Black student outcomes in the public school system.

Subfield(s):

Education

Contact Information

Email: joshuajackson@g.ucla.edu

Research Interests:

Black entertainment; African American popular culture; domestic slavery; modern Jim Crow; Reconstruction Era; and social/cultural history.

Subfield(s):

African Diaspora

Contact Information

Email: robinson.adamca@gmail.com

Research Interests:

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

Subfield(s):

Ethnic Studies

Contact Information

Email: jtankou@g.ucla.edu

Research Interests:

Black Studies; pop culture studies; Black Visualities; African aesthetics in film; African Diaspora; cultural memory; Black Feminist Studies; Black Queer Studies; sociocultural imagination; and cultural studies.

Subfield(s):

Cultural Studies, digital media, film and television, media and communication, gender and sexuality

Contact Information

Email: nwaititu@g.ucla.edu