Current Fellows

Daanika Gordon is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Tufts University. Her research examines the institutional and interactional mechanisms that undergird contemporary racial inequality in the city.

Simon Han is the author of the novel Nights When Nothing Happened (Riverhead Books, 2020). Han is a professor of the practice of fiction at Tufts University.

Diego Javier Luis studies the colonial histories of Latin America and the Pacific World, race-making, and Afro-Asian diasporic convergences. 

Nick Andersen is a scholar of race and religion, with expertise in African American and Africana religions and religious ethics. He specializes in the study of how key nineteenth- and twentieth-century anglophone Black thinkers drew upon religious resources as they engaged projects of racial formation and self-fashioning. 

Mia Levenson is a PhD candidate and dramaturge whose research explores the intersections of biomedical science, race, and theatre. Her research interests include the history of science and medicine, representations of epidemics and disease, as well as performances and presentations of scientific racism in theatre and in popular culture. 

Bekah Waalkes is a writer, researcher, and graduate instructor in the Tufts University First Year Writing Program.