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Amanda Dibando Awanjo PhD '22

  • Project Manager, Black Bibliography Project at Yale University

"During my time at Pitt, I worked as an art educator and engagement liaison in University Art Gallery, The Frick Pittsburgh and a graduate student intern at Hillman Library’s Digital Humanities Lab. I advocated for and conducted research, digital projects, and public programs that connect communities of color with artistic and archival spaces."

I completed my PhD in Critical Cultural Studies in Literature at the University of Pittsburgh in 2022.  My dissertation, 'Black Girl Futures: Intersections of Black Futurity and Black Girlhood in the 20th Century,' explores the role of Black girls and adolescents as crafters of radical afrofuturist epistemologies through the 20th-century through a focus on children’s periodicals and science fiction. During my time at Pitt, I worked as an art educator and engagement liaison in University Art Gallery, The Frick Pittsburgh and a graduate student intern at Hillman Library’s Digital Humanities Lab. In these roles, I advocated for and conducted research, digital projects, and public programs that connect communities of color with artistic and archival spaces. I am currently serving as the Project Manager for the Black Bibliography Project at Yale University.