Congratulations to Dr. Rikki Byrd
May 7, 2024
We are thrilled to announce that Dr. Rikki Byrd defended her dissertation entitled “In Loving Memory: Black Performance and the Sartorial Politics of Mourning,” under the direction of Professors E. Patrick Johnson (Chair), Celeste Watkins-Hayes, and Krista Thompson.
Rikki will be joining UT Austin’s Department of African and African Diaspora Studies as Assistant Professor of Visual Culture in the Fall.