Institute at Brown for Environment and Society
Ashley J. May
Graduate Affiliate, Anthropology
Research Interests
Imperialism; land and rebellion; anti-colonial thought; Islam in the Horn of Africa, the United States in/and Ethiopia; tidalectics; exile and return; revolutionary Africana film and literature
Pronouns
She/her/hers
Degree expected
2029
Biography
Ashley J. May is a PhD student in Sociocultural Anthropology. Her research emerges at the confluence of political anthropology, historical ethnography, and questions of land, the oceanic, and the temporalities of Black struggle. Ashley's methodological preoccupations attend to embodied, material, and visual archives as currents through which new forms of life flow in the wake of ongoing catastrophe.
MA Thesis: Tending to a Sacred Past: Memory, Aurality, and the Space/Time Imaginary at Dirree Sheikh Hussein