Field of Study
Subfield
Africa & Indian Ocean World, Transatlantic Studies, & History of Islamic Law
Grants and Awards
2020-2024 Eugene V. Cota-Robles Fellowship, UCLA Gradaute Division
2021 & 2022 Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Summer Fellowship, UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies
2021 Graduate Summer Research Mentorship, UCLA Graduate Division *declined
2020 UCLA Competitive Edge: Summer Transition Program to the Doctorate, UCLA Graduate Division
2020 Arizona Center for Medieval Studies and Renaissance Studies: Race Before Race Travel Award
2018 Marshall Van Deusen Award, Department of English, University of California, Riverside
Conference Presentations
2020. “Early Modern Shakespearian Globe” Othello’s Black Death.” Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACRMS) Unfreedom Conference. Arizona State University. 2019 “Legitimizing Race Studies in the Curriculum…” Medieval Academy of America: The Global Turn in Medieval Studies. University of Pennsylvania. 2018 “Racial Categorization in Marco Polo’s Description of the World.” Celebrating Belle da Costa Greene: An Examination of Medievalists of Color. Saint Louis University.
Advisors
Degrees
B.A., English, University of California, Riverside, 2018
A.A., Humanities, Philosophy & Arts, Riverside Community College, 2016