Graduate Meet & Greet with Dr. Jazmin Graves Eyssallenne
On Monday, March 9, UNC graduate students are invited to a virtual meet & greet with Dr. Jazmin Graves Eyssallenne, a Faculty Fellow sponsored by the Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies & UNC’s Institute for Arts and Humanities.
Register here: go.unc.edu/meetourfacultyfellow
Dr. Eyssallenne is Assistant Professor in the African American and African Diaspora Studies Program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago in 2021.
Dr. Eyssallenne;s research centers on the devotional music and rituals of Sidis, Indian Muslims of African ancestry, in western India. Her research has been largely supported by a Thurgood Marshall Fellowship at Dartmouth College, the American Institute of Indian Studies’ Junior Research Fellowship, and grants from the Committee on Southern Asian Studies at the University of Chicago.
Dr. Eyssallenne co-edited the three-volume publication, Afro-South Asia in the Global African Diaspora (2020), with Omar H. Ali, Kenneth X. Robbins, and Beheroze Shroff. She was named one of the MIPAD Global Top 100 Most Influential People of African Descent Under 40 in 2018 for her service project the Ahmedabad Sidi Heritage and Educational Initiative.
Dr. Eyssallenne’s research, teaching, and service engages her in the Ethiopian, East African, and Indian Ocean Research Network and the Islamic Studies Research Network at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
