Jessina Emmert


Jessina Emmert standing outdoors smiling, with tree and foliage in the background

Contact Info

327 Blake Hall
Lawrence

Biography

Emmert’s research interests are in critical race theory and the African diaspora. She aims to examine how Black hybrid identities are commodified and reproduced by non-black people.Emmert is specifically interested in the appropriation and exploitation of Black women’s bodies and how they are being commodified in modern day contexts.