DEPARTMENT OF BLACK STUDIES

Research Interests:

Black Internationalism; Black Intellectual Histories; Black France & French Colonial History; Critical Theory; Archival Methodologies

Biography:

Sabrina Robleh (she/her) earned her bachelor's degree in African-American Studies from the University of California, Berkeley in 2016 and her master's degree in Êtudes Anglophones (with highest honors) from Université Paris Nanterre in 2022. Her master's thesis, entitled “Anna Julia Cooper and Jessie Redmon Fauset: Afromodernism and the Black Interwar Parisian Imaginary,” strove to answer questions pertaining to the rise of (Afro)modernism, the two women’s participations in various Black internationalist movements, as well their place/role in the making of what Paul Gilroy termed the Black Atlantic. What she wishes to tease out in her research to come are the shifting allegiances that occur across the Atlantic, the ways in which race is constructed unevenly between colonial metropoles and how the French imaginary serves as a backdrop to both constrict and expand.