About
Ashley Crooks-Allen (They/Them) is the Du Bois-Mandela-Rodney/NCID Fellow in the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS) at the University of Michigan. They earned a Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of Georgia, where they focused on Black ethnic identity and social movements. Their dissertation is titled, “Mestizaje Undone: A Qualitative Social Media Analysis of Afro-Latinx Identity & Social Movements.” This work takes a qualitative approach to understand how Afro-Latinx people use social media to make identity claims in relation to the Black Lives Matter Movement.
