LALACS to welcome Reighan Gillam

LALACS is pleased to welcome associate professor Reighan Gillam to the department this fall.

Gillam is an ethnographer of Black visual culture. Her research examines media at the intersection of racial ideologies, anti-racism, and protest. Specifically, she focuses on the ways that Afro-Brazilian media producers create images that render Black subjects and their experiences in complex ways. Her research examines media at the intersection of racial ideologies, anti-racism, and protest. Specifically, she focuses on the ways that Afro-Brazilian media producers create images that render Black subjects and their experiences in complex ways.

Gillam earned a BA in Anthropology and Afro-American and African Studies from the University of Virginia and a PhD from Cornell University.  She joins us from the Department of Anthropology at the University of Southern California.

Listen to Gillam in a recent episode of the podcast Dialogues in Afrolatinidad and learn more about her at reighangillam.com/about