Profile

Aleah N. Ranjitsingh, Ph.D. (she/her) is an Assistant Professor in the Africana Studies Department and Caribbean Studies Program at Brooklyn College, City University of New York (CUNY). She received her Ph.D. in the field of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies from the Institute for Gender and Development Studies (IGDS), University of the West Indies, St. Augustine. Her current research focuses on the Caribbean and the Caribbean diaspora where she interrogates the concepts of race, mixed race, identity, diaspora and space. She has published in the Journal for Intercultural Studies, the Caribbean Journal of International Relations and Diplomacy, Caribbean Review of Gender Studies, and the Latin Americanist. She is the co-author of Dougla in the 21st Century: Adding to the Mix, a study of race and the mixed race Dougla identity in the Caribbean and the Caribbean diaspora, which was published by the University of Mississippi Press in June 2021.