Jesse L. Rosenberger Work-in-Progress Seminar Series:

"Crossing Boundaries, Creating Community: The Various interpretations of an (Afro) (Mexican) Musical Form"

Karma Frierson

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About the Speaker

Karma Frierson (she/her/hers)

Assistant Professor of Black Studies

PhD, University of Chicago

Karma Frierson is an assistant professor in the Department of Black Studies at the University of Rochester. Dr. Frierson is a cultural anthropologist whose research focuses on the significance of Blackness in identity formation, place-making, and cultural practice in Mexico.

She earned her doctoral degree in Anthropology from the University of Chicago. Prior to joining the University of Rochester, Dr. Frierson was an assistant professor in the Department of African and African-American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. She was also the inaugural postdoctoral associate with the Center for Latin American Studies at Rutgers University-New Brunswick.