Mamyrah Prosper

Mamyrah Prosper is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Institute of Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and The Caribbean (IRADAC) at The Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY). She received her Ph.D. in Global & Sociocultural Studies with a concentration in Cultural Anthropology as well as graduate certificates in African & African Diaspora Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies from Florida International University in Miami in 2015. She also holds an M.S. in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from Nova Southeastern University in Fort-Lauderdale as well as a B.A. in Political Science and Africana Studies from Barnard College, Columbia University in New York. Prosper’s doctoral work centered on a coalition of social movement organizations calling for an end to the ongoing “non-governmental” occupation of Haiti. She is interested in the construction of neocolonial nationalist ideologies and collective identities in relation to race and class, gender and sexuality, education and language, and religion. Prosper has served as an organizer with land and housing rights organizations Take Back the Land-Miami in the U.S.