Prisca Gayles

Prisca Gayles is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Gender, Race, and Identity Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno. She earned a Ph.D. in Latin American Studies, with Doctoral Portfolios in African and African Diaspora Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies, from the University of Texas at Austin in 2020. Before joining the University of Nevada, she was the Gaius Charles Bolin Dissertation Fellow in Africana Studies at Williams College from 2018-2020. She is a former U.S. Fulbright and Tinker Foundation Fellow. Dr. Gayles is an interdisciplinary scholar who investigates how emotions matter in understanding transnational black social movements. Her current research includes a twenty-two-month ethnography of how emotions permeate the macro- and micro-politics of Argentina’s Black social movement.