Black History Month: Guest Speaker Prisca Gayles Ph.D.

Dr. Gayles an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Gender, Race and Identity at the University of Nevada, Reno. She holds a Ph.D. in Latin American Studies, with Doctoral Portfolios in African and African Diaspora Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, from the University of Texas at Austin.

Dr. Gayles investigates the role of emotions in transnational Black social movements with a broader research goal of understanding the diverse ways that blackness is politicized across the African diaspora and used as a tool to demand racial justice in spaces of black invisibility.