Anthropology

Ashley May

Research Interests Histories of empire, colonialism and slavery in the Horn of Africa; landscape and the oceanic; anti-imperial struggle; folk ritual and religion; Africana film and literature

Biography

MA Thesis: “Tending to a Sacred Past: Memory, Aurality, and the Space/Time Imaginary at Dirree Sheikh Hussein”

Previous Degrees

  • BA Women’s Studies, UCLA, 2001
  • MS Education, University of Southern California, 2004