Yasmeen Chism

Ph.D. Candidate, M.A. '16

Yasmeen Chism

Yasmeen Chism is a Ph.D candidate in Performance Studies.

Dissertation title

Tracing Black Movements: Chor[e]ographing Displacements in NC’s Piedmont

Why PS @ NYU?

To garner the research skills necessary to rigorously, and lovingly, examine black life in NC’s Piedmont region.

Education

New York University

Master of Arts Candidate - Performance Studies

New York, New York

 

University of Louisville

Master of Arts - Women's & Gender Studies

Louisville, Kentucky

 

University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Bachelor of Arts - African American Studies, Women's & Gender Studies

Greensboro, North Carolina

Awards & Distinctions

• 2023-2024 Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship

• 2023 - New York University GRI Summer Dissertation Fellowship (Madrid)

• 2022 - University of Michigan Bentley Historical Library Fellowship

• 2022 - 2023 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship

• 2022 NYU Migration Network Graduate Student Award for Summer Research on Migration

• 2021-2022 NYU Gallatin Doctoral Fellowship in Urban Practice

• 2020-2021 Andrew W. Mellon funded NYU Public Humanities Initiative Fellowship

• 2020 NYU Urban Doctoral Fellowship