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Africana Studies Departmental Honors Archive

The following list includes the names of Dickinsonians who have earned departmental honors, the thesis/project title, and the year of conferral. If there is no thesis or project title, the conferring department only will be listed. Each academic department (or program) has its own criteria for awarding departmental honors. Please see the Advising Guide or elsewhere on the department’s main website for details.


Lilly Eidelberg (2023)
Black Queer and Here: The Evolution of Black Queer Zines 1960s-Present

Janaiya Banks (2019)
Beyond Scared Straight: Shucking and Jiving in a New Age

Quadrese Glass (2019)
Keep Up Signifyin(g)!: Black Boys' Revision, Repetition, and Response to Censored Speech

Naji Nazima Thompson (2019)
"No Negro could be a United States citizen": Black American Citizenship and In-between Spaces in the Works of Sutton Griggs and Frances E.W. Harper

Reginald James Glosson (2014)
No Vote, No Freedom: The Black Existential Problematization of Voter ID Laws

Alexandra Uka Amaka Agiliga (2013)
Reclaiming and Asserting Sexual Agency: Black Women in Sadomasochism

Elizabeth Anne Stuhr (2012)
A New Kind of Self-Interest: Africanist Approaches to Aid in West Africa

Grace Perry (2011)
Resisting the Machine: Toward a Theory of Transnational Feminist Anti-Capitalism