Spotlight on Research & Accomplishments
Kinaya Hassane , PhD candidate in African Art History, has been awarded a prestigious Woodson Pre-Doctoral Fellowship (2026–2028) at the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies at the University of Virginia. This highly competitive two-year residential fellowship supports advanced doctoral research in African and African Diaspora studies.
Her dissertation, “Photographic Crossings: Islandness, Labor, and Comorian Mobility in the Western Indian Ocean,” examines the itinerant trajectories of Comorian people and photographs across the western Indian Ocean during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.