Profiles in "Activism and Social Movements" Expertise Area

  • Deschine Parkhurst research intersects at American Indian tribal sovereignty, social movements, and digital activism.
  • Shamara Wyllie Alhassan's work on Black women’s radical epistemologies focuses on the ways Rastafari women use livity to create communities of social justice and combat anti-black gendered racism.
  • Kat is a Communication Baccalaureate and maintains the graduate admissions process at the New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences.
  • Bynum's research focuses on the Black and Brown freedom struggles, the carceral state and oral history.
  • Refugee/asylum migration and displacement, transnationalism, human rights, transitional justice, militarism, and conflict and peace in the Horn of Africa and northern Uganda.
  • Perkins specializes in social inequality, social movements and the environment through a focus on environmental justice.