RaShelle R. Peck (Ph.D.) (she/hers) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Ethnic and Race Studies at the Borough of Manhattan Community College. She was a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian Languages and Literature (AMESALL) at Rutgers University (2019-2020) and in the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis with the Black Bodies Seminar (2018-2019). She teaches courses in African history and has taught courses in African politics, Black music, and Black performance studies. Her current book project, Nairobi Hip Hop Flow, is an interdisciplinary study that combines ethnography, archival work, political history, and music and performance analysis to account for the emergence and innovations of Nairobi’s rap culture. This project importantly centers on the embodied performance practices of rap practitioners by studying how these artists cultivate notions of diaspora and gender as a performative aesthetic. Her research interests include Kenyan and US popular culture, Black performance theory, music studies, Afrofuturism, and gender and sexuality studies. She has published in Research in African Literatures, African Studies Review, and The Feminist Wire.
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