Current Fellows

Post-Doctoral Fellows 2021-2022

Mia Alafaireet

Mia Alafaireet is completing her PhD in the Department of English at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her dissertation, Transplanting Blackness: New Negro Botanicals and the Ecology of Black Health, examines the Harlem Renaissance through the lens of environmental health, and draws from African-American literature, medical history, and environmental humanities.

Ricardo Milhouse

Ricardo Milhouse is completing his PhD in gender studies at Arizona State University in the School of Social Transformation. His dissertation, (Dis)Locating the Sensual: Black Queer Placemaking in Brooklyn, New York, investigates the impact of gentrification on aspects of Black queer culture, drawing from urban geography, Black gender and queer studies, and scholarship on design.