Directors || Postdoctoral Fellow || Faculty Fellows || Dissertation Writing Fellows || Visiting Fellows || Past Fellows
Directors
Miriam Ticktin, Director
Email: mticktin@gc.cuny.edu
Miriam Ticktin is Director of CPCP, and Professor of Anthropology at the CUNY (City University of New York) Graduate Center. She has held positions at the New School for Social Research, University of Michigan, and at Columbia University, and she has been a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the Russell Sage Foundation in New York City, and an invited visiting professor at the EHESS in Paris. She publishes widely on topics such as migration, borders, humanitarianism, and racial and gendered inequalities, and most recently, she has written about the idea of a decolonial feminist commons. She is the author of Casualties of Care: Immigration and the Politics of Humanitarianism in France (University of California Press, 2012), and co-editor of In the Name of Humanity: The Government of Threat and Care (Duke University Press, 2010). Her latest book, Against Innocence: Undoing and Remaking the World, is forthcoming with University of Chicago Press. She is currently working on her next book, Containment and Commoning: From Bordered Worlds to Collective Life. Ticktin writes in public venues such as Truthout, LARB and Open Democracy, and organizes with migrant social justice groups in the US and in France.
Ángeles Donoso Macaya
, Interim Associate Director
Email: adonosomacaya@bmcc.cuny.edu
Ángeles Donoso Macaya (she/they) is an immigrant feminist scholar and writer from Santiago, Chile, based in New York. She is Professor of Spanish at BMCC and affiliated faculty in the Ph.D. Program in Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures and Advanced Certificate in Public Scholarship at The CUNY Graduate Center. Her teaching interests and writing span Latin American and Caribbean photography, human rights activism and counter-archival production, documentary film, (trans)feminisms, migration studies, memory studies, public humanities, and environmental humanities. She co-edited WSQ´s “No estamos a la intemperie: Open Call” (Spring 2025) and is author of The Insubordination of Photography (U Florida Press 2020; 2023) / La insubordinación de la fotografía (Metales 2021); Lanallwe (Tusquets 2023); and archivo imperfecto (Metales Pesados 2023; with photographer Paz Errázuriz). Between 2020-2023, she co-led Archives in Common: Migrant Practices/ Knowledges/Memory. Ángeles is member of The Social Text Collective and CUNY FSJP. She is co-founder of the collective somoslacélula.
Peter Hitchcock, Associate Director (on leave 2025–2026)
Email: phitchcock@gc.cuny.edu
Peter Hitchcock is Professor of English at Baruch College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is also on the faculties of Women’s Studies and Film Studies at the GC. His books include Dialogics of the Oppressed (Minnesota, 1992), Oscillate Wildly: Space, Body, and Spirit of Millennial Materialism (Minnesota, 1999), Imaginary States: Studies in Cultural Transnationalism (Illinois, 2003), The Long Space: Transnationalism and Postcolonial Form (Stanford, 2009), The New Public Intellectual: Politics, Theory, and the Public Sphere (Palgrave, 2016; coedited with Jeffrey R. Di Leo), Labor in Culture, or, Worker of the World(s) (Palgrave, 2017), The Debt Age (Routledge, 2018; coedited with Jeffrey R. Di Leo and Sophia McClennen), and Biotheory (Routledge, 2020; coedited with Jeffrey R. Di Leo). Forthcoming books include Seriality and Social Change (Seagull, 2025) and an edited collection, Parasitical Logic in Culture and Society (Bloomsbury, 2025). Hitchcock’s research and teaching focus on anticapitalism, postcolonial and decolonial critique, the politics of gender and sexuality, and aesthetics. Recent articles include: “Living the City: On Samuel R. Delany’s Times Square Red, Times Square Blue” for WSQ; “Countering Encounters: Theorizing the Scale of Globality” for a volume on theory as world literature; “Decolonizing Aesthetics: Bakhtin, Modernism, and Anti-Colonial Poetics” for Understanding Bakhtin, Understanding Modernism; “Inertia Creeps” for a volume on left theory and the alt-right; “Paroxysm Politics” for a book on Black Mirror; and “Auguries of Ethics” for a volume on contemporary architectural theory.
David Harvey, Director of Research
Email: dharvey@gc.cuny.edu
David Harvey is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Geography at the City University of New York (CUNY) and author of various books, articles, and lectures. His most recent books are A Companion to Marx’s Grundrisse (Verso, 2023) and The Anti-Capitalist Chronicles (Pluto Press, 2020). He is the author of Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism (Profile Books, 2014), one of The Guardian’s Best Books of 2011, The Enigma of Capital and the Crises of Capitalism (Oxford University Press, 2010). Other books include A Companion to Marx’s Capital, Limits to Capital, and Social Justice and the City. Professor Harvey has been teaching Karl Marx’s Capital for nearly 40 years. His lectures on Marx’s Volumes I and II are available for download (free) on his website. He was director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics from 2008–2014. Follow him on Twitter.
Julian Gantt, Program Manager 
Email: jgantt@gc.cuny.edu
Julian Gantt is the program manager for the Center for Place, Culture and Politics. His research interests include the political ecology of coastal forests in the Pacific Northwest and Islamic property relations in the South Caucasus. He also worked for several years as a union organizer, engaging workers in New York and Seattle in their fight to win union elections and bargain contracts.
Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Principal Advisor and Former Director
Email: rgilmore@gc.cuny.edu
Ruth Wilson Gilmore is Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences, American Studies, and Africana Studies at the City University of New York Graduate Center. She was Director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics from 2014 to 2024. Co-founder of many grassroots organizations, including California Prison Moratorium Project, Critical Resistance, and Central California Environmental Justice Network, Gilmore is author of Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation (Verso 2022), and Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (University of California Press 2007). Other recent publications include an Introduction to V.I. Lenin Imperialism and the National Question (Verso 2024), as well as forewords to Bobby M. Wilson’s Birmingham classic America’s Johannesburg, (UGA Press 2019), and to Cedric J. Robinson: On Racial Capitalism, Black Internationalism, and Cultures of Resistance (ed. HLT Quan, Pluto Press 2019). She and Paul Gilroy edited Stuart Hall: Selected Writings on Race and Difference (Duke 2021). The Antipode documentary Racial Capitalism with Ruth Wilson Gilmore features her internationalist work. Honors include the Association of American Geographers Lifetime Achievement Award (2020), the 2020 Lannan Foundation Lifetime Cultural Freedom Prize (with Mike Davis and Angela Y. Davis), and a 2022 Marguerite Casey Freedom Scholar Prize. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Zandi Sherman 
Email: zandi.sherman@gmail.com
Zandi Sherman is a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics. She has a PhD in Women’s and Gender Studies from Rutgers University and a Masters Degree in Global Studies jointly awarded by the Universities of Cape Town and Freiburg. Her research, writing, and activism focus on racial capitalism and the relation between material infrastructures and colonial logics of extraction and accumulation. She has published work on the South African diamond industry and how its technologies of extraction were both dependent on and productive of race. Zandi is a co-founding member of Sociable Weavers, a queer African collective nurturing alternatives to capitalism through socio-ecological regeneration. The collective is currently developing a curriculum for a year-long school focused on preserving African traditions of radical interdependence and crafting new refusals of capitalism’s modes of relation.
Faculty Fellows
Sofya Aptekar
Email: Sofya.Aptekar@slu.cuny.edu
Sofya Aptekar is Associate Professor of Urban Studies at the School of Labor and Urban Studies. She is a sociologist by training who has long navigated interdisciplinary waters. Her recent work engages with the field of critical migration studies, focusing on immigrant workers in the US military in Green Card Soldier (MIT, 2023) and the experience of undocumented young adults in Beyond Dreamers (coauthored with Amy Hsin, in process), as well as analyzing anticapitalist strands in the migrant justice movement. With a team of scholar-organizers, she wrote an activist manual for fighting institutional debt, Lend and Rule (Common Notions, 2024). In addition to her first book, The Road to Citizenship (Rutgers, 2015), Sofya has published scholarly articles on gentrification, public space, collective memory, and alternatives to capitalism, as well as op-eds, interviews, and other public-facing pieces. She serves as the co-chair of the Graduate Center chapter of the Professional Staff Congress.
Alize Arıcan
Email: aarican@ccny.cuny.edu
Alize Arıcan is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at The City College of New York. Her work centers on the future as a site of both contestation and political possibility as it intersects with urbanism, racialization, and migration in Turkey. Her current book project, Figuring It Out: The Politics of Care, is an engaged ethnography of Istanbul’s Tarlabaşı neighborhood asserting care as a set of future-oriented practices that can reconfigure urban politics. Her second project, Transience and Blackness: West African Futures in Istanbul, critically investigates the notion of “transit migration” by centering on the futures that West African communities build in Istanbul. Alize’s work has been featured in Current Anthropology, Environment and Planning D, City & Society, JOTSA, the Radical Housing Journal, and entanglements as well as public platforms such as beyond.istanbul, Platypus, Anthropology News, and the Jadaliyya podcast. Her writing received awards from the Middle East Section of the American Anthropological Association, the Middle East Studies Association, and the American Ethnological Society. She also served as a host for the New Books Network podcast.
Debarati Biswas 
Email: debarati.biswas57@citytech.cuny.edu
Debarati Biswas is Assistant Professor in the Department of African American Studies at New York City College of Technology, CUNY, where she also coordinates the Black Visual Cultures Minor. Her research and teaching focus on the dynamic relationships between race, gender-sexuality, class, ability, and location in 20th and 21st Century Black and U.S. Ethnic literature and culture. Her first book manuscript, “The Perpetually Unsettled: Aesthetics of Elsewheres and Queer Politics in Black American Literature and Culture, 1954-2018” explores the affective and embodied dimensions of blackness and queerness in carceral spaces such as the prison, inner city, and single room occupancy hotel. She serves on the Editorial Board of WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly and is the Co-Chair of the Board of Directors at CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies at the Graduate Center, CUNY. She is the co-editor of Unbearable Being(s), a special issue of WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly. Her work also appears in journals such as Social Text, WSQ, Public Books, and Teen Vogue; as well as in the forthcoming anthology, The Parasitical Logic in Culture and Society, edited by Peter Hitchcock and published by Bloomsbury Academic. Biswas has also co-produced an award-winning docu-fictional webseries, Three Trembling Cities, on immigrants of color in NYC.
Karen Miller
Email: kamiller@lagcc.cuny.edu
Karen Miller is Professor of History at LaGuardia Community College and the CUNY Graduate Center. Her current work examines American empire and the Philippines. Her project illustrates that settler migration programs, first devised by agents of the American colonial state, not only materially dispossessed Indigenous Filipinos, but established the logics of settler entitlement that have served as an alibi for extractive political economies and their attendant inequalities. Most recently, Dr. Miller co-edited an anthology, Prehistories of the War on Terror: A Critical Genealogy with A. J. Yumi Lee, and wrote two articles which appeared in The American Quarterly: “Agents of the Settler State: Incarcerated Filipino Workers, Conjugal Migration, and Indigenous Dispossession in the American Colonial Philippines,” and “’Thin, Wistful, and White’: James Fugate and Colonial Bureaucratic Masculinity in the Philippines, 1900-1938.” Her first book, Managing Inequality: Northern Racial Liberalism in Interwar Detroit (New York University Press, 2014) combined a study of racial formation and urban policy with a consideration of black activism. In 2021, she published an illustrated and abridged version of that book called How American City Leaders Built Segregated Neighborhoods while Disavowing Racism (Cambridge: MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning, 2021). Dr. Miller’s articles and reviews have also appeared in The Journal of American History, American Historical Review, The Journal of Contemporary Sociology, The Middle West Review, The International Journal of Critical Pedagogy, The Michigan Quarterly Review, Michigan Feminist Studies, Against the Current, and Jacobin.
Amr Kamal
Email: akamal@ccny.cuny.edu
Amr Kamal is Associate Professor of French, Arabic, and Comparative Literature, at the City College of New York and at the Graduate Center. He is the coordinator for the minor of Middle East and North Africa Studies at City College. His research interests include nineteenth and twentieth French and Francophone Literature; Francophone literature from the Mashreq (Egypt, Lebanon, Syria); Arabic Literature; Gulf studies, postcolonial literature; cultural geography; material culture, visual culture and media, translation studies, Mediterranean studies, and cinema. He held fellowships at the BOZAR Center for Fine Arts in Brussels, and the Institute for the Humanities at the University of Michigan. He was a resident scholar at the Boghossian Foundation, Center for Art and Dialogue in Brussels. He is the author of Emporialism: Department Store Fiction and the Politics of the Mediterranean (SUNY Press 2024). The book was awarded Honorable Mention for the ACLA René Wellek prize, 2025. The award recognizes each year’s best book overall in Comparative Literature. He is currently working on his next monograph: Iconography of Displacement: Deconstructing Imagery of Uprootedness in Contemporary Mediterranean Cinema.
Linta Varghese
Email: lvarghese@bmcc.cuny.edu
Linta Varghese is an associate professor in the Department of Race and Ethnic Studies at the Borough of Manhattan Community College and Faculty in the Public Scholarship Program at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Her current research investigates the universalization of care as a countermeasure to multiple crises, with attention to how this strategy is mobilized in the domestic workers movement in the United States. Her work has appeared in journals such as Cultural Dynamics, Woman: A Cultural Review, and edited volumes including The Sun Never Sets: South Asian Migrants in an Age of U.S. Power. She has been a guest editor for special issues of WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly titled “Together” which took up the limitations and possibilities of coming together, and Ethnic Studies Review which revisited the implications of the racial prerequisite case U.S. v Thind (1923) on its centenary.
Sharanya Dutta 
Email: sharanyadutta1992@gmail.com
Sharanya Dutta is a PhD candidate in English at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Her research focuses on contemporary Anglophone South Asian novels—specifically nostalgia and dissent, states of emergency and exception, and the relationship between theory, language, and the novel form. Her work exists at the intersection of postcolonial studies, critical caste studies, transnational and world literatures, theories of the global south, and affect theory. She teaches first-year writing at Baruch College.
Omawu Diane Enobabor
Email: oenobabor@gradcenter.cuny.edu
Omawu Diane Enobabor is a PhD Candidate in Earth and Environmental Studies at the Graduate Center CUNY. Her dissertation examines social reproduction and contemporary racialized mobilities of African Migrants migrating throughout the Americas- with case studies in São Paulo, Brazil, Tapachula, Mexico and New York, New York. Her research has been supported by the Graduate Center and the Fulbright-Hays Program, and her writing appears in NACLA and Society and Space. As a social practitioner, Diane situated praxis oriented art practice, spatial theory, and social movement organizing strategies as an operational technology toward a liberatory insurgent or ‘future planning’ in migrant and Black diasporic communities. She is the founder of New York based Aan African feminist collective, Africa is Everywhere and also founder and co-architect of Black: Cite; Sight-Site, a arts and cultural festival based in São Paulo, Brazil.
Gabriel Meier
Email: gmeier1@gradcenter.cuny.edu
Gabriel Meier is a doctoral candidate in Earth and Environmental Sciences at the CUNY Graduate Center and an adjunct lecturer in Economics at John Jay College. His research focuses on the social form of circulation, its historical-geography in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, and critical theories of measurement, mobility, and epistemology. Gabriel has worked as an archivist, writer, editor, and radio host. He earned a BA in Political Studies from Pitzer College and an MA in Library and Information Science from University of Arizona.
Nikhil Ramachandran
Email: nramachandran1@gradcenter.cuny.edu
Nikhil Ramachandran is a PhD candidate in Cultural Anthropology at the CUNY Graduate Center. He is currently working on a project that focuses on the potential for reclaiming urban space for practices that use logics that are alternative to the capitalist imaginary. It explores the contradictions that arise as well as the capacity to imagine otherwise. His research and teaching interests lie broadly in the problematics of political imagination, racial capitalism, and interdisciplinary methods.
Marybeth Tamborra 
Email: mtamborra@gradcenter.cuny.edu
Marybeth Tamborra (she/her) is a PhD candidate in Modern European and American Black Intellectual History at the Graduate Center. Her research examines theories of fascism in the Black Radical Tradition during the moment of emergent fascism, and particularly the 1935 Invasion of Ethiopia. This transnational intellectual history weaves the interconnected protests in the West Indies with the demonstrations in Harlem, and the use of history and political theory for radical political change. Her other research interests include the Fascist built environment and public housing from the outskirts of Rome to the Libyan farmsteads, and the political deployment of the home as a means to attain labor, gender and political controls of the regime. Marybeth taught Global History at Brooklyn College, served as a writing fellow at the City College of New York. She holds an AB in Anthropology from the University of Chicago. Outside of academia, Marybeth is Mamma to a three-year-old and a chef in New York and Italy.
Juliana Valente
Email: jvalente@gradcenter.cuny.edu
Juliana Valente is a PhD candidate in the cultural anthropology program at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her current project interrogates notions of citizenship and belonging by looking at how criminalized youth in Brazil obtain and make use of identity documents. She is interested in understanding how bureaucratic institutions produce the apparatuses of surveillance that are nevertheless key for making claims to rights. Furthermore, she seeks to shed light on how people push back on such projects through their creative uses of IDs. Prior to beginning her PhD, Juliana worked at an NGO in Brazil with youth convicted of committing crimes. She received her master’s in social anthropology from the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), and her Bachelors in sociology and education from Vassar College.
Mizue Aizeki
Email: mizue@surveillanceresistancelab.org
Mizue Aizeki is the founder and Executive Director of the Collaborative Research Center for Resilience (CRCR), which includes projects such as the Surveillance Resistance Lab and The Everywhere Border Project. For nearly twenty years, Mizue has focused on securitization regimes and the injustices at the intersections of the criminal and migration control systems—including bordering, criminalization, imprisonment, and exile. Mizue is a co-editor of Resisting Borders and Technologies of Violence (Haymarket Books, February 2024). Mizue’s photographic work appears in Dying to Live, A Story of U.S. Immigration in an Age of Global Apartheid (City Lights Books, 2008) and Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter (Verso, 2016).
Pegah Behroozi-Nobar
Pegah Behroozi-Nobar holds a PhD in Urban Studies from the University of British Columbia (UBC), a Master’s degree in Urban and Regional Planning from Heriot-Watt University, and a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture from the Baha’i Institute for Higher Education (BIHE). Her interdisciplinary research, writing, and activism center on urban inequalities, the political economy of the urban commons, housing justice, and alternative models of social housing in the Middle East. Her work also critically engages with themes of urban informality and self-built settlements.Currently, Pegah is examining the dynamics of the elimination of urban commons and the role of state-led urban governance in this process. She investigates how the privatization of common spaces—such as waterfronts and shorelines—under accelerated urbanization affects marginalized communities’ access to these spaces, shaping their sense of belonging and deepening social and spatial exclusion in the city. She is the co-founder of Diyar Common Matters Society, a British Columbia–based nonprofit organization dedicated to exploring and advocating for the preservation and creation of common urban spaces. The organization conducts community-engaged research aimed at fostering more equitable and just cities across the province. Pegah is also working on her forthcoming book manuscript, titled Squatter Government, which explores how modern governments systematically engage in the confiscation of common and private spaces, specifically targeting marginalized groups.
Milena Doytcheva
Email: milena.doytcheva@unicaen.fr
Milena Doytcheva is Professor of Sociology of Race and Ethnicity at the University of Caen Normandy (France). Her work addresses racism and racial discrimination in contemporary, “officially colorblind” France. As a visiting scholar at CPCP in 2025–2026, she will conduct comparative research examining how regimes of colorblindness shape diversity initiatives and policymaking across the United States, France, and the EU.
Temitope Famodu
Email: tfamodu@uci.edu
Temitope Famodu is a doctoral candidate in Global and International Studies at the University of California, Irvine, and a 2024–25 Fulbright US Scholar to Hungary. Their research explores the political economy of African student migration to post-socialist geographies, focusing on contemporary Nigerian students in Hungary. Using ethnographic and archival methods, they examine the embodied experiences of students navigating race, identity, and placemaking as well as the bilateral state and institutional infrastructures that facilitate this mobility.
Esther M. Franke
Email: frane423@newschool.edu
Esther M. Franke is a PhD candidate in the Politics department at The New School for Social Research and adjunct professor at Montclair State University. In their dissertation, they develop trans as a perspective for global politics in conversation with three instances of mobility/trans/queer/feminist organizing in Mexico City, Buenos Aires and Berlin. They teach widely on feminisms, queer and trans studies and (global) politics. They hold an MA in Political Theory from the University of Frankfurt and have worked in several positions in politics and research. They organize as part of the transnational feminist collective and NGO “Discover Football” working on sports and gender justice.
Aadarsh Gangwar
Email: aadarsh.gangwar@graduateinstitute.ch
Aadarsh Gangwar is a PhD candidate in anthropology and sociology at the Geneva Graduate Institute. He is writing up a dissertation on the experiences of queer people in the asylum system in Switzerland, with a focus on peer support and credibility assessment. Through an ethnographic account of sociality among queer asylum seekers and those who advocate their rights at grassroots collectives and associations, this thesis explores the contours of how credibility and genuineness come to be constructed, asserted, and contested both within and beyond the asylums system. In doing so, it brings queer theory and practice to bear on anthropological critiques of humanitarianism, innocence, and deservingness. Aadarsh’s doctoral project is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (grant 211912). Some of Aadarsh’s scholarly contributions can be found at Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies and Allegra Lab.
Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi
Email: gtbehrooz@gmail.com
Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi is the former Professor and Chair of the Department of Near Eastern Studies and Director of Iranian Studies at Princeton University. He is the author of Foucault in Iran: Islamic Revolution after the Enlightenment; Remembering Akbar: Inside the Iranian Revolution; and Islam and Dissent in Postrevolutionary Iran. His forthcoming book entitled The Long War on Iran is going to be published by OR Press in October 2025.
Angelina Grelle (she/her) is a PhD student in Urban and Regional Development at the Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning at the Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy. She holds a BA and MA in Urban Planning from the University of Naples, where she began working side by side with marginalized and distressed communities in Italy. Her PhD research focuses on the interrelationship between migration processes and urban spaces. She delves into the socio-spatial aspects of migration, exploring the development of new forms of radical democracy, grassroots organization, and solidarity practices in occupied autonomous spaces.
Anika Kabani
Email: anika.kabani@anthro.ox.ac.uk
Anika Kabani is a current DPhil candidate in Anthropology at the University of Oxford, a Farhad Daftary Doctoral Scholar at the Institute of Ismaili Studies, and a Visiting Research Scholar at the City University of New York Graduate Center’s Center for Place, Culture, and Politics. She is also convener of Migration Oxford, a network that brings together students, researchers, and academics working on migration and mobility from across the University of Oxford’s research centres, divisions, and departments to foster interdisciplinary dialogue and collaborations. Anika holds an MSc in Social Anthropology from the University of Oxford, an MA in Islamic Studies and Humanities from SOAS, and BAs in Anthropology and International Studies from Washington University in St. Louis. Her doctoral research, supervised by legal anthropologist Dr. Morgan Clarke, ethnographically explores the shaping of Muslim subjectivity through the U.S. humanitarian immigration system, and more generally the experiences of Muslim asylum seekers with a particular geographic focus on New York City. She previously held a Visiting Doctoral Researcher position at New York University School of Law.
Fania Noël
Email: noelfania@newschool.edu
Fania Noël is an Afrofeminist scholar, writer, and organizer. She is a Research Scholar at the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her work bridges political sociology and Critical Black Cultural Studies, focusing on the legitimacy battles surrounding Blackness, political identity formation, and mobilization in France; Black feminist theories of “homeplace”; and the representation of racialized gender in speculative fiction. Fania Noël earned an M.A. in Sociology from Paris V René Descartes University, and an M.A. in political sciences from Panthéon-Sorbonne University before earning a PhD at The New School for Social Research. She is currently completing two manuscripts: In the Name of the Dead Black Wife: Absenting, Blackness, and Gender in Science Fiction (expected 2026) and Noir in Place: Black Politics, Gender, and Space in Contemporary France, based on her doctoral dissertation. Her third book,10 Questions sur les Féminismes Noirs, was published in 2024 by Libertalia Press. Fania Noël is the creator and editor-in-chief of ALASO, a trilingual (Haitian Creole, French, English) Haitian feminist anthology revue published by the Haitian feminist organization NÈGÈS MAWON.
Bruno Nzinga Ribeiro
Email: brunonzingaribeiro@gmail.com
Bruno is an activist in LGBTQIANPN+ and black movements, a Ph.D. candidate in Social Anthropology at the University of Campinas (Unicamp), and currently a Visiting Scholar at the City University of New York (CUNY). He earned his BA in Social Sciences and a master’s degree in Social Anthropology from Unicamp. His research from 2018 to 2021, funded by FAPESP, investigated the Black LGBT scene in São Paulo. At New York University, he further explored the transnational Black LGBTQ scene, focusing on connections between São Paulo and New York City. Currently, at the CPCP, Bruno is developing research on difference, abandonment, and precarity in the (im)mobilities of Brazilian LGBT migrants living in New York City (FAPESP grant 21/14686-8), under the supervision of Professor Ruth Wilson Gilmore. His research interests include sexual and gender diversity, intersectionality, performance studies, black queer studies, and social movements. Bruno’s master’s dissertation earned an honorable mention in the X Anthropology and Human Rights Award from the Brazilian Association of Anthropology. His recent publications include articles in journals such as Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees, Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, Cadernos de Campo: USP, and Áskesis: UFSCAR.
Marwaa Zazai
Email: marwaa.zazai@uni-hamburg.de
Marwaa Zazai is a visiting scholar at the CPCP and a PhD candidate at the Institute of Geography at the University of Hamburg, Germany. Her doctoral research is part of the interdisciplinary project Meat the Bioeconomy, which critically examines the German meat industry from both economic-geographical and sociological perspectives. In her dissertation, she focuses on labor processes, labor regimes, and management strategies within the German meat sector. Her research interests include labor relations, racial capitalism, migration and border regimes, as well as questions of union organizing. She holds a Master of Education (M.Ed.) for teaching at secondary schools and a Master of Science (M.Sc.) in (Human) Geography, both from the University of Hamburg. During her stay as a visiting scholar at the CPCP, she is also supported by a Fulbright Germany Scholarship.
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