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Department of Black Studies
Room 3702 South Hall
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3150
zj189@hotmail.com
Zakiyyah Iman Jackson is a Dissertation Scholar in the Department
of Black Studies at UCSB. Zakiyyah is a Ph.D. Candidate in African Diaspora Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Her dissertation is titled, "Becoming Human: The Question of the Animal in Afro-Modernism." It starts from the premise that Modernity has cast Black people in an uncertain position with respect to the emerging caesura dividing "the human" from "the animal." My project investigates how Black cultural producers: namely novelists, filmmakers, and artists have sought to trouble Modernism's human/animal boundary and redefine the human. She has accreditations in Film Studies as well as Gender and Sexuality Studies. She earned her Bachelor's degree from The Ohio State University in Women's Studies and Political Science.
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Department of Black Studies
Room 3702 South Hall
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3150
skhabeer@blackstudies.ucsb.edu
Suad Abdul Khabeer is a Dissertation Scholar in the Department of Black
Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Suad is a Ph.D.
Candidate in the Department of Anthropology at Princeton University. Her
dissertation, "The Fifth Element: Muslim Youth, Identity and Hip Hop in
Chicago" focuses on the intersections of race, place, and popular culture
in the identity making of young American Muslims. She is particularly
interested in the racial and spatial signifiers embedded in the aesthetic
practices of American Muslim youth. Along with the written work she will
complete a short ethnographic film that also explores these issues. She
earned her Bachelor's degree from Georgetown University's School of
Foreign Service and spent a year of post-graduate language study in the
Middle East. Suad is also a senior project advisor for the award-winning
PBS documentary, New Muslim Cool. In addition to her academic research,
Suad is an artist; her most recent work of poetry was published in the
anthology Living Islam Out Loud: American Muslim Women Speak in 2005. |
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The Department of Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara invites applications for two fellowships for the academic year 2009-2010. Applicants must be advanced to candidacy at an accredited university. This fellowship is also open to international applicants. The department is particularly interested in scholars whose research focuses on intersections of race, class, gender or sexuality in African/Caribbean/African-American or Diasporic Studies.
The duration of the award is nine months and the fellowship grant is $20,000. Scholars are required to be in residence during the entire fellowship period and there is an expectation that the dissertation will be completed during the term of residency. Dissertation scholars will teach one undergraduate course and present one public lecture.
To apply, complete and mail the application to UCSB Black Studies Dissertation Fellowship along with a cover letter, curriculum vitae, a brief description of the dissertation project (2-3 pages), a writing sample (approx. 20-25 pages, double-spaced) and three letters of reference to:
Dissertation Fellowship Committee
Department of Black Studies
3631 South Hall
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3150
*The application is available as both a PDF and Word document. To access the PDF application you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader. Click here to download a free version of Adobe Reader.
*If you are unable to download either version of the application, please
e-mail vmoore@blackstudies.ucsb.edu
The University of California is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer. The department is especially interested in candidates who can contribute to the diversity and excellence of the academic community through research, teaching and service.
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