Doctoral Student Public Humanities Fellow
Doctoral Student, Department of History, Graduate School of Arts & Science
Project: The Left POCket Project
Wendi Muse is a doctoral candidate in History at New York University. Her dissertation Exiles & Allies: Portuguese Africa and the Brazilian Left (1951-1992) examines the impact of political and intellectual exchange between Lusophone African and Brazilian activists during concurrent respective struggles against authoritarian rule. Wendi holds a Master’s in Latin American and Caribbean Studies (NYU) and has served as a Program Assistant and translator for the NYU Steinhardt course Race and Higher Education in Brazil. As a Public Humanities Fellow, Wendi will work with local organizers and scholars to make the history of leftist movements led by and comprised of people of color easily-accessible through a public lecture series and digital media platform.