Ayanna Legros
Student
Current Research Interests
Haiti
United States
Radio
Migration
Transnationalism
Oral Histories
Family History
Digital and Ephemeral Archives
United States
Radio
Migration
Transnationalism
Oral Histories
Family History
Digital and Ephemeral Archives
Current Appointments & Affiliations
- Recognition
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In the News
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JUN 19, 2020 Duke Chronicle -
JUL 14, 2016 Hyperallergic -
OCT 11, 2015 Wall Street Journal
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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
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Global Scholarship
- 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
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Academic Articles
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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
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Book Reviews
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Exhibitions, Screenings, & Performances
- 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
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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
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Instructor of Record
: CUNY Guttman, Writing 101
- 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
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Service to the Profession
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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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