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Hire Dr. Amani M.

United States

USD 125 /hr

Interdisciplinary researcher | Race, Archival Records, Literature, Design/Built Environment, Housing, Digital Humanities

Profile Summary

My research interests include urban geography, literature, black history (archival and digital), cultural studies, and digital mapping. I am currently engaged with a self-designed project on historical housing design, urban housing policy, migration, and literature, focused on black Chicago in the 20th century. I recently worked on a digital mapping and archiving project on slave conspiracies in 18th century Louisiana.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ☆ Human Geography
• ☆ Black & African American Interest
• ☆ Ethnology & Ethnography
• ☆ Housing & Housing Policy
• ☆ Urban Studies
• ☆ American Studies
• ☆ Technical & Scientific Writing

Services

• Writing
• Research

Work Experience

Assistant Professor of African American Literature and Culture

Georgetown University

August 2020 - Present

Postdoctoral Fellow

Washington University in Saint Louis College of Arts and Sciences

July 2018 - Present

CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow in African American Data Curation

University of Delaware

July 2019 - July 2020

Postdoctoral Fellow

Washington University in St. Louis

July 2018 - June 2019

Research Fellow

UC Berkeley- D-Lab

March 2017 - May 2018

Instructor, Reader

UC Berkeley

August 2014 - May 2018

Education

Ph.D (African American and African Diaspora Studies)

University of California, Berkeley

August 2012 - June 2018

MA (African American Studies)

University of California, Berkeley

August 2012 - December 2013

BA (American Studies)

University of Richmond

August 2008 - May 2012

Certifications

• Certification details not provided.

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

(2018). Black Hair Haptics: Touch and Transgressing the Female Body . Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism.