Keyanah Nurse

Keyanah Nurse is the Senior Program Officer for Intentional Design for an Equitable Academy (IDEA) Programs, where she leads the Digital Justice Grants Program and co-leads the Intention Foundry. Before joining the ACLS staff in September 2021, she served as an ACLS Emerging Voices Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.  There, she contributed to a variety of doctoral career diversity initiatives, as well as received training in digital humanities for her research on the history of the global Black press. As a historian of the African Diaspora with a specialization in modern Latin America, her research interests include liberalism, state formation, race, gender and sexuality, and black intellectual traditions.  She received her PhD in History from NYU in May 2020 and her BA in Hispanic Studies from Columbia University in 2014.

In addition to her scholarly work, Keyanah has written extensively on race, gender, sexuality, and contemporary pop culture for public audiences, contributing to the academic blog Black Perspectives as well as serving as Senior Editor for Honeysuckle Magazine, an independent NYC-based arts and culture publication. She also serves as a research consultant for the podcast Multiamory, which explores non-normative relationship orientations from an intersectional perspective.