AAADS Graduate Students

Rika Anzawa

Rika Anzawa, a first-year graduate student in AAADS, is especially fond of her literature courses. The area of interest that she is researching currently is contemporary African American women's literature.
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Delphine Criscenzo

Del Criscenzo plans to graduate in 2009 with an MA in AAADS. Her favorite courses are Ethnography and History of Black Education. Del's areas of research and particular interest are race relations in the U.S., black Indians, and the construction of cultural identity.
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Katie Dieter

Katie E. Dieter, a second-year graduate student in AAADS, is graduating in May 2008. Her favorite courses have been Contemporary Black American Writing and Intro to Early Black American Writing. Among Katie's areas of research and interest are skin-tone hierarchies, representations of black women in the media, and black women's resistance.
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June Evans

June Evans plans to graduate in 2009 with an MA in AAADS. Her favorite course is Contemporary African American Literature. June's areas of research and particular interest are black women in music, especially musicians and vocalists in the genre of '70s R&B, but also including jazz and blues of the '20s and '30s.
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Sara Bagby Farmer

Sara Bagby Farmer, a second-year graduate student in AAADS, anticipates graduating in 2009. Her favorite courses are Writings and Literature in African American and African Diaspora Studies, Proseminar on Cultural and Historical Studies in African American Studies, and Variations on Blackness, Parts I and II. The areas of research that particularly interest Sara are race, privilege, and undergraduate fraternities and sororities.
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Kate Hipskind

Katelyn M. Hipskind, a first-year graduate student in AAADS, is pursuing a degree in black studies "because my favorite courses have always been my African American studies courses. These courses have touched me most deeply because they fill a gap in the traditional education system, which allows me to see the world through a different lens."
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Bergis Jules

Bergis Jules, who plans to graduate 2009, is pursuing a joint degree (MA/MLS) in AAADS and library science. Of the courses he's taking, Bergis says, "They' re all great." His areas of research and particular interest are race and technology and the Civil Rights Movement.
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