Congratulations to Dr. Charlene Carruthers
April 20, 2026
We are thrilled to announce that Dr. Charlene Carruthers defended her dissertation entitled “Black Placemaking: Histories and Black Feminist Literary Imaginations of U.S. Settler Colonialism in Indian Territory, the United States, and Liberia,” under the direction of Professors Nitasha Sharma, Martha Biondi, Tracy Vaughn Manley, and J.T. Roane.