Anthropology

Ashley May

ashley_may@brown.edu
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Research Interests Imperialism; land and rebellion; anti-colonial thought; Islam in the Horn of Africa; the United States in/and Ethiopia; tidalectics; exile and return; revolutionary Africana film and literature

Biography

Ashley J. May is a third year PhD student in Sociocultural Anthropology. Her research emerges at the confluence of political anthropology, historical ethnography, and questions of land, the oceanic, and the temporalities of Black struggle. Ashley's methodological preoccupations attend to embodied, material, and visual archives as currents through which new forms of life flow in the wake of ongoing catastrophe.

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, USC, 2004
  • MA Anthropology, Brown University, 2025