Kamahra Ewing
Education:
Ph.D. in African American and African Studies at Michigan State University (MSU), East Lansing, MI. | Dec. 2016
Dissertation Title: “Nollywood Goes to Brazil: Counter-hegemonic Media Flows in the African Diaspora.”
M.A. in American Studies at Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI. | Dec. 2009
Thesis: “Virtual Social Capital in the Obama Campaign.”
B.A. in Social Relations at James Madison College, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI. | Dec. 2001
B.A. in Spanish at College of Arts & Letters, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI. | Dec. 2001
Dissertation Title: “Nollywood Goes to Brazil: Counter-hegemonic Media Flows in the African Diaspora.”
M.A. in American Studies at Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI. | Dec. 2009
Thesis: “Virtual Social Capital in the Obama Campaign.”
B.A. in Social Relations at James Madison College, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI. | Dec. 2001
B.A. in Spanish at College of Arts & Letters, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI. | Dec. 2001
Biography:
Kamahra Ewing is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English and the African American and Africana Studies Program, with a specialization in the Global Black Studies, Postcolonial, Global South, Media/Film Studies, Ethnography, Gender, and Religion. She has collected mixed methods ethnographic qualitative and quantitative research within African immigrant and Black Atlantic communities in Brazil, Jamaica, and the United Kingdom.
Research Interests:
African Diaspora
film and media studies
Contemporary Africa and Post-colonial/Decolonial Theories
Global South Studies
Brazil and Latin America
Gender and ethnic identity
ethnography
African African American and Caribbean Literature and Culture
Multicultural American literature
- Assistant Professor
- English
- African American and Africana Studies
- International Film Studies
- Social Theory
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