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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

Jalin Jackson

Jalin Jackson

Advisor: Bey
Entry Cohort: Fall 2021

JalinJackson2026@u.northwestern.edu

Research Interests: Cultural studies; Black and Latine popular culture; race and digital culture; Afro-Latin America, especially Panama and the Caribbean; history and politics of digital entertainment technologies; simulation of racial subjectivity; videogames; play and ludology; power, play, and pedagogy

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