Advancing excellence at UC and beyond

Rashad Arman Timmons

Education:

B.A., Journalism, Michigan State University; M.A., Journalism, Michigan State University; Ph.D., African American and African Diaspora Studies, University of California, Berkeley

Dissertation:

Haunted Traffic: Blackness, Geography, and Performances of Infrastructural Violence in Ferguson.

Thesis Advisor:

Brandi Wilkins Catanese, Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies, University of California, Berkeley

Research Topic:

Networks of Refusal: Mediating Violence and Radicalism in the Black Diaspora

Mentor:

Jaime Alves, Professor of Black Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara

Current Position:

President's Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Black Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara