Biography
Yasmine Adams (she/her) is a PhD student in Sociocultural Anthropology. Yasmine received her B.A. in English with a double minor in African American studies and anthropology from the University of Florida in Gainesville. Her current research interests include how Black people interact with images and videos of violent anti-Blackness and death on social media and the subsequent grief and mourning practices of Black people online.
Research Interests
Grief and Mourning, Death, Violent Anti-Blackness, Black Futurity, Race and Racism, Imagery, Social and Traditional Media, Cultural Performance, Memory, Raciosemiotics, Semiotics, Visual Culture, Digital Ethnography, and Digital Activism.
Education
Graduate Education | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- Ph.D., Anthropology | In Progress
Undergraduate Education | University of Florida, Gainesville
- B.A., English | May 2022
- Minor in African American Studies | Department of African American Studies
- Minor in Anthropology | Department of Anthropology
Awards and Honors
2023: Summer Predoctoral Institute Fellowship
2023 - Present: Aspire Doctoral Fellowship
2024 - 2025: HRI Interseminars Fellow