Scholars@Duke

• Recognition
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  In the News

  • JUN 19, 2020

    Duke Chronicle

    Juneteenth: An open letter to Duke

  • JUL 14, 2016

    Hyperallergic

    Basquiat's Former Home and Studio Gets a Permanent Plaque

  • OCT 11, 2015

    Wall Street Journal

    Museums Open Up to the Power of Wiki
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  Awards & Honors

  • Celebrating Mentors. Office of Alumni Engagement and Development. February 2021
  • Haitian-American Leadership Award . National Association for the Advancement of Haitian Professionals. 2020
  • Emerging Scholar Award . Haitian Studies Association . 2019
  • Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship. U.S. Department of Education . 2018
  • Honorable Mention, Predoctoral Fellowship . Ford Foundation . 2018
• Expertise
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  Subject Headings

  • Port-au-Prince Bay (Haiti)
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  Global Scholarship

  • Research

    • Bahamas (Country) 
    • Bolivia (Plurinational State of) (Country) 
    • Colombia (Country) 
    • Haiti (Country) 

  • Teaching

    • Dominican Republic (Country) 
    • Spain (Country) 
• Research
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  Fellowships, Supported Research, & Other Grants

  • Museum Association of the Caribbean awarded by Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Duke University 2021
  • Travel Grant awarded by National Science Foundation 2019
  • Caribbean Sea Migration awarded by Franklin Humanities Institute 2018
  • Tierras Unidas awarded by Kathyrn Davis Foundation 100 Projects for Peace 2013
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Academic Articles

    • Legros, Ayanna. “Capturing Emancipation.” Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture 3, no. 2 (April 1, 2021): 60–64. https://doi.org/10.1525/lavc.2021.3.2.60.
       Full Text  Open Access Copy

  • Book Reviews

    • Legros, Ayanna. “Detain and Punish: Haitian Refugees and the Rise of the World's Largest Immigration Detention System. By Carl Lindskoog. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2018. 220 pp. ISBN13: 9781683400400. $84.95 hardcover. Review by Ayanna Legros.” Journal of Haitian Studies, n.d.
       Link to Item
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  Exhibitions, Screenings, & Performances

  • Gallery Talk - Exhibition Opening | Ebony G. Patterson . . . while the dew is still on the roses . . . at Nasher Museum of Art 2020
• Teaching & Mentoring
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  Advising & Mentoring

  • Listening for Zora: Merging Sonic Archives with the Digital Humanities https://sites.duke.edu/interdisciplinary/2020/02/20/listening-for-zora-merging-sonic-archives-with-the-digital-humanities/
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  Teaching Activities

  • Instructor of Record : CUNY Guttman, Writing 101 
    
    Instructor of Record : CUNY Hostos, Black Studies 
    
    Teaching Assistant  Immigrant Dreams, American Realities (Presentation: Haitian Refugees In Krome Detention Center), Duke University 
    
    Teaching Assistant  American Dreams, American Realities (Presentation: The Harlem Renaissance) / (Research Presentation: Radio and Haitian Migration in New York City), Duke University 
    
    Teaching Assistant  Feast or Famine: Food in Global History (Presentation: Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History by Sidney Mintz, Ph.D.), Duke University 
    
    Teaching Fellow : (Global History, Art History, Global Theology), Loyola School 
    
    Substitute Teacher : (Intro to the Civil Rights Movement), Dominican Academy
    
    
• Scholarly, Clinical, & Service Activities
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  Presentations & Appearances

  • Black History Month Global Week Keynote Speaker. Northwestern University. February 2022  2022
  • North Carolina Latin American Film Festival: Afro-Latin American Film. An emergence of vision. October 2021  2021
  • Dominican, Haitian, Island Historical Futures: A Discussion of Emerging and Upcoming Research. Oxford University Caribbean Studies Network. May 11, 2021  2021
  • Mind, Body & Soul: Afrofuturist Sacred Sounds. The Center for the Humanities. February 2, 2021  2021
  • Narratives Disrupted: Voices and Visions of the Black Atlantic Series. Skidmore College. February 2021  2021
  • The Young Lords: A Radical History . Global Anti-Racism (histories of action). The John Hope Franklin Center (JHFC) and the Duke Center for International and Global Studies (DUCIGS). September 2020  2020
  • Curating Basquiat . Forum for Scholars & Publics / Left of Black . 2020  2020
  • Innovative Advocacy Fellowship Closing Ceremonies . Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute. 2020  2020
  • Introduction to Contemporary Latin America. Duke University . 2020  2020
  • Radio and the Caribbean . Society for the History of Technology . 2019  2019
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  Outreach & Engaged Scholarship

  • Fellowship Mentor . Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute. 2017 - 2021  2017 - 2021
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  Service to the Profession

  • Emerging Scholars Committee / Student Representative . Haitian Studies Association. 2020 - 2021  2020 - 2021
  • Secretary . Latin American Studies Association: Haiti-Dominican Republic Section. 2020 - 2021  2020 - 2021
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  Service to Duke

  • Co-Chair, Hurston-James Society . 2020 - 2021  2020 - 2021
  • History Department Colloquium Committee. 2019  2019
  • Hurston-James Representative. Black Graduate and Professional Student Association. 2019 - 2020  2019 - 2020
  • Graduate and Professional Student Government . History Department Representative. 2017 - 2018  2017 - 2018

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