Anne-Marie Angelo is a History Ph.D. candidate at Duke University. She studies the twentieth century United States from a transnational perspective, with fields in Modern U.S. History; Intellectual and Cultural History of the U.S.; Global History; and Race, Representation and Visual Culture. Anne-Marie holds a B.A. in American Studies from the University of Virginia and an M.A. in History from Duke.
She is interested in foreign perceptions of the U.S. during the twentieth century, with specific emphasis on the civil rights movement and its interactions with global racial formations. Her dissertation, “‘Any Name That Has Power’: The Black Panthers of Israel, the United Kingdom, and the United States, 1948-77,” examines the transnational formations of the Black Panther Parties of Israel and the United Kingdom, with reference to the Black Panthers in the United States. Her broader research interests include African diaspora studies, Middle East studies, human rights, state surveillance, comparative nationalisms, and migration and refugee studies. She speaks and reads Arabic.
Anne-Marie worked as Teaching Assistant for the BorderWork(s) Lab’s “At Home/On the Wall” project in 2011-12. In 2012-13 she works with BorderWork(s) as a Research Assistant, focusing on the Lab’s web and social media projects. In Spring 2013, she is teaching a course in the History & Visual Studies Departments entitled, “Race and Visual Culture in U.S. History.”