Ph.D Candidate in Social Anthropology
About
Research Interests
African/ Black diasporas; Black studies; political anthropology; South Asia; Detroit; non-citizens; migration; kinship; affective labor, intimacy; race; power; multimodal and visual anthropology.
Bio
My research examines Black life, migration, and non-citizen political belonging through ethnographic fieldwork with African communities. My dissertation project investigates how kinship, race, and everyday social life become the grounds on which political worlds are made. I am particularly interested in the relationship between power and ordinary life, and in the methodological possibilities of ethnography and visual practice in exploring possibilities and limits of different ways of knowing social worlds.
Before beginning my current project in Detroit, I conducted ethnographic fieldwork with African students in India, examining race, diasporic life, and the everyday forms of political labor through which diasporic communities work toward collective survival. My broader work has spanned ethnography, filmmaking, and public humanities, including co-producing the Narrating Nubia audio archive with Prof. Amal Hassan Fadlalla and an ongoing independent media project centered on everyday life and people in Uganda.
Courses Taught:
- ANTHRCUL101: “Introduction to Anthropology”
- ANTHRCUL 330: "Culture, Thought and Meaning"
- AAS 322: "Introduction to Environmental Politics"
