Cristi Whiskey

Cristi Whiskey

Cristi Whiskey

Graduate Student

Email: whiskeycristi@g.ucla.edu

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Field of Study

Africa

Subfield

Premodern Critical Race Theory, Black Atlantic, & North Africa

Awards & Grants

2024 RaceB4Race Social Media Fellows Program

2020 & 2024 Eugene V. Cota-Robles Fellowship, UCLA Graduate 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

  • “Before Lives of Enslavement: the Black Diaspora into the Trans-Saharan World.” The Biennial Congress of the New Chaucer Society. Pasadena, CA. 2024.
  • “Questionable Bills of Sale: Legal Opinions & Race-Making in the Trans-Saharan Slave Trade.” Region and Enmity: A Raceb4race Symposium. 2021 *hosted via Zoom.
  • “Early Modern Shakespearian Globe: Othello’s Black Death.” Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACRMS) Unfreedom Conference. Tempe, AZ. 2019.
  • “Legitimizing Race Studies in the Curriculum…” Medieval Academy of America: The Global Turn in Medieval Studies. Philadelphia, PA. 2019.
  • “Racial Categorization in Marco Polo’s Description of the World.” Celebrating Belle da Costa Greene: An Examination of Medievalists of Color. Saint Louis, MI. 2018.

Advisor(s)

Dr. Hollian Wint-Frederick (Chair), Dr. Andrew Apter, Dr. Minayo Nasiali, Dr. Wendy Laura Belcher

Degrees

  • M.A., History, University of California, Los Angeles, 2023
  • B.A., English, University of California, Riverside, 2018
  • A.A., Humanities, Philosophy & Arts, Riverside Community College, 2016