Scarlet and Black Postdoctoral Fellows (Cohort II: 2022-2023)
These fellowships support scholars engaged in the examination of the global dimensions of anti-Black racism and its impact on the Americas (1580 to the present).
VIEW OUR INAUGURAL COHORT OF SCARLET AND BLACK POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS
VIEW OUR INAUGURAL COHORT OF SCARLET AND BLACK POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS
Adam Biggs
Area of Expertise: Race and Health
Dr. Adam Biggs is a recent graduate of the American Studies program at Harvard University and is on leave from an appointment as an Instructor of African American Studies and US History at the University of South Carolina Lancaster. His research interests include African American history, civil rights activism, and the history of medicine.
Khemani Gibson
Area of Expertise: Social Justice
Dr. Khemani Gibson is a historian of the African Diaspora focusing on the Black migration in the Caribbean Basin looking at the West Indian immigrant community in Panama during the twentieth century. For his manuscript: Citizens of Their Own Nation: The West Indian Immigrant Community in Panama, 1914-1961, he examines how West Indian immigrants used migration and claims making as methods to achieve full freedom in the post-emancipation circum-Caribbean.