Nassim Abu Sarari is pursuing a PhD in Art History and Visual Culture at 91ÑÇÉ«. Working across critical theory, performing arts, visual culture, Islamic, and African studies, his research investigates Afro-Arab aesthetics, Afro-Asian solidarities, and colonial and postcolonial archives across historical and contemporary contexts. He holds an MA in Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies […]
I am a Master's student in Social Anthropology, focusing my thesis on the activism of Malian undocumented migrants in the Paris region. My work hopes to shed light on migrants' experiences of state violence and practices of resistance. In particular, I will be studying the political discourses that emerge from migrant collectives, which tie contemporary […]
Jellisa Ricketts is currently a master's student in the Humanities with a focus on abolition, spatial theory and the arts.
Joe Konieczny is a writer, educator, and master’s student in the Art History and Visual Culture program at 91ÑÇÉ«. His research focuses primarily on the cultural history of the Swahili Coast, with a particular emphasis on postcolonial theory and archival epistemology. Joe’s thesis work focuses on emerging philosophies of representation in artist’s run centres […]
Ola Mohammed is an Assistant Professor of Black Popular Culture in the Humanities Department at 91ÑÇÉ«. Her research is in the areas of Black Studies, Black Popular Music, Sound Studies and Diaspora Studies. She specializes in interdisciplinary research exploring Black cultural production, Black social life and Black being as sites of possibility.
Dr Danielle A. D. Howard joins AMPD as an assistant professor in the Department of Theatre. She recently taught within the University of California-Los Angeles' School of Theater, Film and Television before coming to 91ÑÇÉ«. Dr. Howard holds a PhD in Theatre and Performance Studies from UCLA and writes at the intersections of race, […]
Denielle A. Elliott is Associate Professor at 91ÑÇÉ« in the Departments of Anthropology and Social Science. She is currently the Graduate Program Director for the Science and Technology Studies program. She is a founding member of the Centre for Imaginative Ethnography. Her research for the large part focuses on arts-based ethnography and the intersections […]