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Allani Dye  

Allani Dye  

Advisor: Spigner
Entry Cohort: Fall 2023

allanidye2028@u.northwestern.edu

Research Interests: The actualization of Black and Indigenous Feminist Science Fiction and Climate Fiction’s racial-environmental reimaginings by BIPOC farmers and landworkers; BIPOC Speculative Feminist Fiction; BIPOC Farming and Land Work; Indigenous Environmentalism; Black Environmentalism; Nature Writing; BIPOC Environmental Anarchism and Sustainability

Yasmine Grier

Yasmine Grier

Advisor: Bey
Entry Cohort: Fall 2024

yasminegrier@u.northwestern.edu

Research Interests: Black Radical Tradition, Black Radical Imagination, Black feminist theory, 20th-century social movements and intellectual histories, Black political theory, political ideology, 20th-century Black fiction

Jalin Jackson

Jalin Jackson

Advisor: Bey
Entry Cohort: Fall 2021

JalinJackson2026@u.northwestern.edu

Research Interests: Blackness/whiteness and digital culture, videogames and race, history and politics of videogames as a medium, videogames and Afro-Latin America, play and ludology, simulation of racial subjectivity and abjection, Black popular "hood" culture/media

Marissa Joseph

Marissa Joseph

Advisor: Larcher
Entry Cohort: Fall 2025

MarissaJoseph2030@u.northwestern.edu

Research Interests: Haitian Studies, 20th Century Afro-Latin American and Caribbean Histories, Caribbean migrations in U.S. Empire, Black Feminist Historiography, Oral History, Decolonial and Post Colonial Theory

Stephen Sola Ogunsakin

Stephen Sola Ogunsakin

Advisor: Hesse
Entry Cohort: Fall 2025

stephenogunsakin2030@u.northwestern.edu

Research Interests: Social and Political Theory, Africana Philosophy, Existential Phenomenology, Black Political Thought, Critical Theory, Postcolonial Studies, Psychoanalysis, Social Epidemiology, Biomedical Ethics, Cinematography

Mustafa Siddiqui

Mustafa Siddiqui

Advisor: Bey
Entry Cohort: Fall 2020

MustafaSiddiqui2026@u.northwestern.edu

Research Interests: Black Trans Studies, Trans of Color Critique, Black Feminist Theory, Feminist New Materialisms, Performance Theory, Media Studies, Pop Culture, Cultural Production, Ontology, Materiality

Brian Zuluaga

Brian Zuluaga

Advisor: Márquez
Entry Cohort: Fall 2023

BrianZuluaga2028@u.northwestern.edu

Research Interests: Abolition; Black Anarchism; Black Feminist Theories; Carceral Studies; Insurgency & Counter-Insurgency; Oral History; Political and Politicized Prisoner Organizing; Prefigurative Politics; Racial Capitalism; Settler Colonialism; 20th Century African American and Latinx Social Movement Histories