Project Ideas for Doctor of Philosophy in African American Studies

Digital archive mapping Black mutual-aid societies from Reconstruction to New Deal

Ethnography of Afro-centric homeschooling networks in urban California

Critical analysis of abolition geography in contemporary prison divest campaigns

Machine-learning study of racialized language in 20th-century newspaper classifieds

VR reconstruction of Tulsa’s Greenwood District pre-1921 massacre

Oral-history project on Pan-African feminist organizing during the Cold War

GIS visualization of environmental racism and asthma prevalence in Gulf Coast cities

Comparative study of Afro-surrealism in literature and independent film

Policy brief on reparations models and wealth-gap reduction scenarios

Interactive timeline of Black techno-culture from Detroit techno to Afro-futurist coding camps

Archival research on African American GI resistance in Vietnam War-era bases

Digital zine series amplifying queer Black rural experiences

NLP sentiment analysis of #BlackLivesMatter Twitter discourse across election cycles

Exhibition curation plan for forgotten Black West Coast photographers (1900-1950)

Study of gospel aesthetics in contemporary trap music production

Participatory action research on food sovereignty in historically Black farming cooperatives

White paper on algorithmic bias in predictive policing tools targeting Black neighborhoods

Podcast documenting intergenerational narratives of Great Migration families in the Midwest

Critical essay on Black speculative fiction as decolonial pedagogy

Conference organizing guide foregrounding accessibility for Black disabled scholars