Jameelah Imani Morris

Jameelah Imani Morris is a PhD Candidate in Social and Cultural Anthropology at Stanford University. She received her B.A. in International Relations and Spanish from Tufts University and M.A. in Anthropology from Stanford University. Her research focuses on the political demands and political lives of Black youth as a central part of longstanding intergenerational Black political struggles in Colombia. Her dissertation examines how Black youth political mobilizations expose the ways gendered anti-Black state violence scaffolds the production of Cartagena as a tropical “paradise”. In doing so, she argues that these mobilizations importantly theorize how racialized police violence and ongoing urban displacement violently distorts normative conceptions of age at the intersection of blackness and gender. Her work is supported by the Social Science Research Council and Fulbright-Hays Program.