The Center for African & African American Studies Graduate Student Fellowship Program

The Center for African & African American Studies Graduate Student Fellowship Program (aka the “CAAAS Grad Fellows Program”) provides support and scholarly community for University of Colorado Boulder graduate students conducting research and creative work in African studies, African American studies, and African diaspora studies. CAAAS Grad Fellows receive a stipend and are eligible for CAAAS Grad Student Awards, the CAAAS Dissertation Completion Fellowship, the CAAAS's Alice Cleora Reeves Dissertation Award, and the CAAAS’s Jessica Bertram Womanist Innovation Award. CAAAS Grad Student Fellows participate in, and contribute to, several interdisciplinary and intersectional research “Lunch & Learn” events (at least two each semester) co-sponsored by the Center for African & African American Studies (CAAAS) and CU Libraries. Currently only grad students who have received CAAAS Grad Student Summer Fellowships are eligible for the CAAAS Grad Fellows Program. For more information on the CAAAS Grad Student Summer Fellowship Program, see here.

 

2024 Graduate Student Summer Fellows

Trevor Egerton

PhD Student, Department of History, College of Arts & Sciences
CAAAS Graduate Fellows

Trevor Egerton is a fourth-year PhD student in the University of Colorado Boulder’s History Department. His research focuses on the intersections between race and outdoor recreation in the twentieth century American South. Particularly, he uses a set of forty Black-only state parks scattered throughout the region to better understand the connections between the development of outdoor recreation and the Black Freedom Struggle between 1935 and 1965. Trevor is originally from Austin, Texas and graduated in 202...

Tyreis Hunte

MFA Student, Department of Theatre & Dance, College of Arts & Sciences
CAAAS Graduate Fellows

Tyreis Hunte is a Creole Amazônido interdisciplinary artist and creative director birthed in Guyana, South America. Their work is embedded in the understanding and the connections of global indigenous cultures and their embodied philosophies. Tyreis is a Davis World Scholar and alum of the United World College, Changshu China, receiving their Bachelor of Arts in Dance and Asian Studies with focus on Movement Therapy from St. Olaf College.  Tyreis is keen on the historic as well as contemporary contributions...

Ubochi Igbokwe

PhD Student, Department of Musicology, College of Music
CAAAS Graduate Fellows

Ubochi Igbokwe is a fourth-year doctoral student studying Ethnomusicology here at ýĻƷ. She is an instructor and teaching assistant at the College of Music and a Graduate Fellow at the Center for African and African American Studies (CAAAS). At the American Music Research Center (AMRC),her scope of duties included cataloging the digital objects associated with Grauman Theater Scores, Glenn Miller Collections, and importation of digital objects related to popular music through the CU World Cat. Her res...

Idowu Odeyemi

PhD Student, Department of Philosophy, College of Arts & Sciences
CAAAS Graduate Fellows

Idowu Odeyemi is a PhD candidate in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Colorado Boulder. His research and teaching centers on epistemology, moral philosophy, and social and political philosophy. He is an alumnus of the Open Student Workshop at the University of Oxford. His essay "Living in America, Leaving Nigeria" was recognized as one of the 18 notable essays by a Nigerian in 2023. The philosophical issues he tends to focus on are non-idealized, particularly focusing on how to morally evalu...

Olumide Ojediran

PhD Student, Department of Anthropology, College of Arts & Sciences
CAAAS Graduate Fellows

Olumide Ojediran is a PhD candidate in Archaeology in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Colorado Boulder. He received his Bachelor of Arts in Archaeology from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, in 2019, and subsequently completed a joint Master of Science in Quaternary Geology, Prehistory, and Bioarchaeology at the Natural History Museum of Paris, and Universität Rovira i Virgili, Spain, in 2023. As an Africanist archaeologist, Olumide is dedicated to advancing zooarchaeology within Nigeri...

Success Osayi

PhD Student, Department of Journalism, College of Media, Communication and Information (CMCI)
CAAAS Graduate Fellows

Success is Nigerian. He is a PhD student in the Department of Journalism. His research interests revolve around the interrelationship between socio-political power dynamics (especially at the macro level) and the media industry in developing democracies, with the expectation that his work will significantly contribute to our understanding of how these dynamics can shape media representation (in terms of workforce makeup) and portrayal of issues, and how such representation and portrayal can in turn contribu...

Nandi Pointer

PhD Student, Department of Media Studies, College of Media, Communication and Information (CMCI)2024 - 2025 CAAAS Alice Cleora Reeves Endowed Dissertation Fellow
CAAAS Graduate FellowsCAAAS Doctoral Fellows

Nandi Pointer is a doctoral candidate in the College of Media, Communication and Information at the University of Colorado, Boulder advised by Dr. Sandra Ristovska. Her multimodal dissertation, which includes the completion of a documentary film, focuses on Black American male identity formation and its rearticulation in Black expats. She holds a Master of Journalism from the University of California at Berkeley, where she produced her first award-winning documentary Highway of Dreams. The film investigates...

Reya Roussel

J.D. Candidate, University of Colorado Law School
CAAAS Graduate Fellows

Reya Roussel is a third-year law student from Arlington, Texas pursuing a Civil Rights and Racial Justice Certificate and an Entrepreneurial Law Certificate at the University of Colorado Law School. She also serves as a Senior Fellow with the Byron White Center for the Study of American Constitutional Law, where she helps conduct legal research and coordinate educational events related to a wide range of topics in Constitutional Law. She holds a bachelor’s degree in African American Studies and a minor cert...

2024-2025 CAAAS Grad Student Future Fellow

Antoinette Kendrick

PhD Student, Department of Media Studies, College of Media, Communication and Information (CMCI)
CAAAS Graduate Fellows

Antoinette Kendrick received her bachelor’s degree in psychology and her master's degree in social work (MSW) from the University of Oklahoma in 2022. She started her first year of doctoral studies in Media Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder in the Fall of 2023 and will be entering the Fall 2024 semester as a second-year PhD student/GPTI. Antoinette is interested in investigating the social impact of exposure to various forms of graphic media content across age groups and analyzing the disproport...