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AK Wright

Black Feminism Postdoctoral Fellow

Dr. AK Wright(they/them) is a Jamaican first-generation healer-scholar. Their book project, Embodied Abolition: Healing Justice, Black Feminism and Ending Carcerality investigates how Black individuals communally and intimately live, resist, and care amid carceral forces. Situated in Black feminist thought, queer and trans studies, and carceral studies, their research explores communal healing justice approaches to carceral abolition.
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  • Education

    PhD, Feminist Studies, University of Minnesota Twin Cities (2022)
    MA, Feminist Studies, University of Minnesota Twin Cities (2020)
    BA, Women's and Gender Studies, Bates College (2017)

  • Contact

    an.wright@northeastern.edu Personal Website

  • Address

    220G Renaissance Park
    360 Huntington Avenue, Boston MA 02115

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AK’s Colleagues

Nicole Aljoe

Professor of English and Africana Studies
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Kwamina Panford

Emeritus Associate Professor of Cultures, Societies and Global Studies
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Nina Sylvanus

Associate Professor of Anthropology
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Richard Wamai

Associate Professor of Cultures, Societies and Global Studies
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Richard L. O'Bryant

Director of the John D. O'Bryant African American Institute; Research Associate of the Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy; Advisory Board Member, Humanities Center
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Sheila Winborne

Associate Teaching Professor of Religion
Margaret Burnham named Carnegie fellow

Margaret Burnham

University Distinguished Professor of Law and Affiliate Professor of Africana Studies

Tiffany Joseph

Associate Professor of Sociology and International Affairs; Graduate Program Director, Sociology
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Matthew Lee

Teaching Professor of Human Services

N. Fadeke Castor

Assistant Professor of Religion and Africana Studies

Eric Jackson

Part-Time Lecturer

Patricia Davis

Associate Professor of Communications Studies, CAMD

Ángel David Nieves

Dean’s Professor of Public and Digital Humanities and Professor of Africana Studies and History

Kabria Baumgartner

Dean’s Associate Professor of History and Africana Studies; Associate Director of Public History

Régine Michelle Jean-Charles

Director of Africana Studies, Dean’s Professor of Culture and Social Justice, and Professor of Africana Studies and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies