PROJECT PI 

Aleah N. Ranjitsingh, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Africana Studies Department, and Caribbean Studies Program, Brooklyn College, City University of New York (CUNY). She is a product of CUNY, having obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science with a minor in English, and a Master’s degree in Political Science, both from Brooklyn College. She also received her Ph.D. in the field of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies from the Institute for Gender and Development Studies (IGDS), University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago. Her research focuses on the Caribbean as part of the African diaspora, and the Caribbean diaspora in the United States, where she interrogates the concepts of gender, race, mixed race, Blackness, identity and diaspora. She has published in the Journal for Intercultural Studies, the Caribbean Journal of International Relations and Diplomacy and the Caribbean Review of Gender Studies. She is the co-author of Dougla in the 21st Century: Adding to the Mix, a study of race and the mixed race Dougla identity in the Caribbean which was published by the University of Mississippi Press in June 2021.

EMAIL: Aleah.Ranjitsingh03@brooklyn.cuny.edu

RESEARCH ASSISTANT

Gabrielle Huggins is a recent graduate of Brooklyn College, City University of New York (CUNY). She graduated in June 2023, receiving a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, with a concentration in Management. She was an active member of various on-campus organizations, serving as President of the Caribbean Student Union from 2021-2023,  and Treasurer of the Black Student Union from 2022-2023.

SPECIAL THANKS: Special thanks to Rongenet Gabriel (Brooklyn College, 2023) for assistance with transcriptions.