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Trevor Egerton

PhD Student, Department of History, College of Arts & Sciences
CAAAS Graduate Fellows
Trevor Egerton is a fourth-year PhD student in the Â鶹¹ÙÍø’s History Department. His research focuses on the intersections between race and outdoor recreation in the twentieth century American South. Particularly, he uses a set of forty Black-only state parks scattered throughout the region to better understand the connections between the development of outdoor recreation and the Black Freedom Struggle between 1935 and 1965. Trevor is originally from...
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Tyreis Hunte

MFA Student, Department of Theatre & Dance, College of Arts & Sciences
CAAAS Graduate Fellows
Tyreis Hunte is a Creole Amazônido interdisciplinary artist and creative director birthed in Guyana, South America. Their work is embedded in the understanding and the connections of global indigenous cultures and their embodied philosophies. Tyreis is a Davis World Scholar and alum of the United World College, Changshu China, receiving their Bachelor of Arts in Dance and Asian Studies with focus on Movement Therapy from St. Olaf College. Tyreis is...
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Ubochi Igbokwe

PhD Student, Department of Musicology, College of Music
CAAAS Graduate Fellows
Ubochi Igbokwe is a fourth-year doctoral student studying Ethnomusicology here at CU Â鶹¹ÙÍø. She is an instructor and teaching assistant at the College of Music and a Graduate Fellow at the Center for African and African American Studies (CAAAS). At the American Music Research Center (AMRC),her scope of duties included cataloging the digital objects associated with Grauman Theater Scores, Glenn Miller Collections, and importation of digital objects related to popular...
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Idowu Odeyemi

PhD Student, Department of Philosophy, College of Arts & Sciences
CAAAS Graduate Fellows
Idowu Odeyemi is a PhD candidate in the Department of Philosophy at the Â鶹¹ÙÍø. His research and teaching centers on epistemology, moral philosophy, and social and political philosophy. He is an alumnus of the Open Student Workshop at the University of Oxford. His essay "Living in America, Leaving Nigeria" was recognized as one of the 18 notable essays by a Nigerian in 2023. The philosophical issues he...
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Olumide Ojediran

PhD Student, Department of Anthropology, College of Arts & Sciences
CAAAS Graduate Fellows
Olumide Ojediran is a PhD candidate in Archaeology in the Department of Anthropology at the Â鶹¹ÙÍø. He received his Bachelor of Arts in Archaeology from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, in 2019, and subsequently completed a joint Master of Science in Quaternary Geology, Prehistory, and Bioarchaeology at the Natural History Museum of Paris, and Universität Rovira i Virgili, Spain, in 2023. As an Africanist archaeologist, Olumide is...
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Success Osayi

PhD Student, Department of Journalism, College of Media, Communication and Information (CMCI)
CAAAS Graduate Fellows
Success is Nigerian. He is a PhD student in the Department of Journalism. His research interests revolve around the interrelationship between socio-political power dynamics (especially at the macro level) and the media industry in developing democracies, with the expectation that his work will significantly contribute to our understanding of how these dynamics can shape media representation (in terms of workforce makeup) and portrayal of issues, and how such representation and...
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Nandi Pointer

PhD Student, Department of Media Studies, College of Media, Communication and Information (CMCI) • 2024 - 2025 CAAAS Alice Cleora Reeves Endowed Dissertation Fellow
CAAAS Graduate Fellows • CAAAS Doctoral Fellows
Nandi Pointer is a doctoral candidate in the College of Media, Communication and Information at the University of Colorado, Â鶹¹ÙÍø advised by Dr. Sandra Ristovska. Her multimodal dissertation, which includes the completion of a documentary film, focuses on Black American male identity formation and its rearticulation in Black expats. She holds a Master of Journalism from the University of California at Berkeley, where she produced her first award-winning documentary Highway...
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Reya Roussel

J.D. Candidate, University of Colorado Law School
CAAAS Graduate Fellows
Reya Roussel is a third-year law student from Arlington, Texas pursuing a Civil Rights and Racial Justice Certificate and an Entrepreneurial Law Certificate at the University of Colorado Law School. She also serves as a Senior Fellow with the Byron White Center for the Study of American Constitutional Law, where she helps conduct legal research and coordinate educational events related to a wide range of topics in Constitutional Law. She...