Jasmine H. Wade is a doctoral candidate in Cultural Studies at the University of California, Davis with designated emphases in Feminist Theory and Research and Native American Studies. Her dissertation, “Healing/Encountering: Black and Indigenous Radical Aesthetic Practices” is an interdisciplinary project that looks at Black and Indigenous speculative aesthetics, including the manifestos of Black Lives Matter and Idle No More, in relation. Her work engages Black Studies, Native American and Indigenous Studies, Black and Native feminisms, queer studies, and speculative futures studies. In addition to her work as a Lecturer at Sacramento State University, Jasmine is also a freelance curriculum writer. In this capacity, she writes inclusive, critical teaching guides for educators and reviews educational materials with a culturally responsive education lens. Jasmine is also a speculative fiction writer whose work has appeared in Drunken Boat, Trouble the Waters: Tales of the Deep Blue, Lunch Ticket, and more.
Portfolio
Primary Academic Inquiries
Black and Indigenous Radical Aesthetic Practices | My dissertation project “Healing/Encountering: Black and Indigenous Radical Aesthetic Practices” is a transnational study that looks at Black and Indigenous speculative aesthetics in relation to the Black Lives Matter and Idle No More manifestos in the United States and Canada. |
Archive of Futures | Archive of Futures is a curatorial project in which I find and organize artifacts created to be from the future. |
Collaboration with The Garifuna Heritage Foundation | In considering Blackness hemispherically, an on-going pedagogical and research project with The Garifuna Heritage Project prompts explorations into Blackness and Indigeneity in the Caribbean. |
Fellowships, Honors, & Awards
UC President’s Dissertation Year Fellowship, 2021-2022
UC Humanities Consortium Fellowship, 2021
HATCH – UC Davis Feminist Science Shop – Summer Research Funds, 2021
College Language Association, First-Time Attendee Award, 2021
UC Davis Graduate Research Mentorship Fellowship, 2020-2021
HASTAC Fellowship, 2019-2021
Racial Capitalism Mellon Initiative Graduate Research Fellowship, 2020
Mellon Public Scholars Fellowship, 2019
UC Davis Provost’s Fellowship in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, 2017-2018
Imagining America Creative Documentation Fellowship, 2017
San Francisco Writer’s Grotto Fellowship, 2017
VONA/Voices Fellowship, 2014, 2016