GRANT RECIPIENTS
Black Culture / Black Life
Chukwuka Odigbo
’25: “Spectres, New Media of Anti-blackness, and the Question of the Subject”
Nikki Greene
April 23 | 12:30 PM | Haldeman 246
Nikki A. Greene, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Art History at Wellesley College. She has traveled internationally to deliver lectures on the Arts of the African diaspora, including to Chile, England, Ethiopia, Italy, and South Africa.
Her book, Grime, Glitter, and Glass: The Body and The Sonic in Contemporary Black Art (Duke University Press, October 2024) presents a new interpretation of the work of Renée Stout, and Radcliffe Bailey, and María Magdalena Campos-Pons, and considers the intersection between the body, black identity, and the sonic possibilities of the visual using key examples of painting, sculpture, photography, performance, and installation. Grime, Glitter and Glass was awarded a Wyeth Foundation for American Art Publication Grant by the College Art Association. In January 2021, Greene served as a co-producer of When We Gather, a three-minute film based on an extraordinary vision by María Magdalena Campos-Pons who was moved by the election of Kamala Harris as Vice-President-elect of the United States and directed by the talented filmmaker Codie Elaine Oliver.
Endia Hayes
May 15 | 4:30 PM | Haldeman 246
Endia Hayes is a scholar of what she describes as Black feminist sensory cultural study, a set of inquiries traversing the fields of cultural, Black, gender and sexuality studies alongside sociology. Dr. Hayes earned her Ph.D. in Sociology from Rutgers University and is currently the 2024-2025 Thurgood Marshall Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of African and African American Studies at Dartmouth College. Her writing has appeared in journals such as The Black Scholar, Literature and Medicine, Southern Cultures, and Gastronomica alongside pivotal anthologies like Black Feminist Sociology and Black Women and Da 'Rona. She has held fellowships with The Center for Black, Brown, and Queer Studies and the Global Black Feminisms Summer Lab, among others.
Aneeka Henderson
April 9 | 12:30 PM | Haldeman 246
Aneeka Henderson’s research has been published in Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society and in African American Culture and Society After Rodney King Her scholarly interests include late twentieth-century African American fiction, film, and music. Supported by the American Association of University Women Postdoctoral Research Leave Fellowship, the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Social Sciences at Duke University, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's Institute for Citizens and Scholars Fellowship, Henderson's authored, Veil and Vow: Marriage Matters in Contemporary African American Culture (University of North Carolina Press | Gender and American Culture Series), which places familiar, politicized questions about the crisis of African American marriage in conversation with a rich, but underexamined cultural archive of fiction, film, and music. Veil and Vow was the 2021 Finalist for the Outstanding First Book Prize, Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Disapora.
Allie Martin
February 27 | 4:30pm | Haldeman 246
February 27 | 5:30pm | IBICL Suite, Haldeman 261
Allie Martin is an ethnomusicologist that explores the relationships between race, sound, and gentrification in Washington, DC. Utilizing a combination of ethnographic fieldwork and digital humanities methodologies, she considers how African-American people in the city experience gentrification as a sonic, racialized process. Her work has been supported by the Ford Foundation, the Smithsonian Institution, the Society for American Music, and the American Musicological Society.
Brittnay Proctor
April 8th | 12:30 PM | Haldeman 246
Brittnay L. Proctor received her PhD in African American Studies from Northwestern University, and is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Race and Media in the School of Media Studies at The New School University. Her research interests include: Black Studies; black popular music, black feminist theory, sound studies, visual culture, and performance. Her work has been published in the Journal of Popular Music Studies, The Journal of Popular Culture, American Literature, Sounding Out!, Feminist Formations, Hyped on Melancholy, African American Review, Reviews in Digital Humanities, and ASAP/Journal.
She is the author of, Minnie Riperton’s Come to My Garden (33 1/3) (Bloomsbury Press). She is also working on a second book manuscript which draws on LP records and Compact Disc’s (CD’s), in order to trace the sonic and visual discourses of gender and sexuality in funk music in the United States post-1960.