Doctoral Student Public Humanities Fellow
PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Graduate School of Arts & Science
Public Humanities Project: Translating Blackness: Transnational Activism and Responses to Anti-Black Racism
Dissertation: Grassroots Human Rights Activism against Racism in the Dominican Republic
Amarilys Estrella is a Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology at New York University. Her dissertation research examines the role of human rights law and discourse in transnational activism against anti-Black racism. She holds a Master’s in Latin America and Caribbean Studies from New York University. Prior to her doctoral studies she was the Program Officer for Haiti and the Dominican Republic at American Jewish World Service, an international human rights organization. As a Public Humanities Fellow, Amarilys will work closely with the New York City based collective We Are All Dominican (WAAD) in designing a transnational campaign to address the denationalization of Dominicans of Haitian descent in the Dominican Republic, as well as global anti-immigrant and anti-Black sentiment.