Anna Tybinko is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Romance Studies at Duke University. She works on historical constructions of race in the Spanish-speaking world through contemporary themes of migration, precarity and racialization. Her current research explores Spanish fiction as a means of thinking beyond social limitations and proposing alternative concepts of community to[…]

Ayanna Legros is a PhD Candidate in History. Her research focuses on 20th century Haiti, social movements and technology.

Heather Martin is Librarian for African and African American Studies and library liaison to the Department of African and African American Studies. Through consultation, instruction, and collection building, she engages students and faculty in multidisciplinary research related to sub-Saharan Africa, African American studies, and African diaspora studies.

Director, John Hope Franklin Research Center for African and African American History & Culture

Amanda Bennett is a PhD candidate in Literature at Duke University. She holds a BA in English and African American studies from the University of Alabama. Her research currently focuses on the function of the novel as a form of radical technology within black feminist discourses during the 1970s and 1980s. In her spare time,[…]

African Language Initiative | Yoruba Instructor Samuel Ma’at (né Samuel White Jr.) has been a Durham resident for a little over 10 years. With an M.A. in Spanish and Translation Studies from UNC Charlotte and owner of his business Lengua Lounge, he is a Spanish translator, instructor and tutor. He began studying the Yoruba language[…]