Aleah Natasha Ranjitsingh

Aleah N. Ranjitsingh, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Caribbean Studies Program, Africana Studies Department of Brooklyn College of the City University of New York (CUNY). She received her Ph.D. in the field of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies from the Institute for Gender and Development Studies (IGDS), University of the West Indies, St. Augustine.

Her dissertation entitled: “Women and Change. Hugo Chavez’s Bolivarian Revolution in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela” examines the political and social processes of Venezuela’s 21st century socialism and, in taking a feminist methodological approach seeks to situate women within these processes. For this research project she also examined themes and issues around women’s citizenship, bodies, political participation and the nation-state.

Her research focuses on the Caribbean and the Caribbean diaspora as part of the African diaspora, where she interrogates the concepts of gender, race, mixed race, identity, diaspora and space.

She has published in the Journal for Intercultural Studies, the Caribbean Journal of International Relations and Diplomacy and the Caribbean Review of Gender Studies. She is the co-author of Dougla in the 21st Century: Adding to the Mix, a study of race and the mixed race Dougla identity in the Caribbean and the Caribbean, which was published by the University of Mississippi Press in June 2021.

Dr. Ranjitsingh is the recipient of a CUNY Black, Race and Ethnic Studies Initiative (BRESI) grant. The funded project – Becoming Black: Afro-Caribbean and/in ‘Black America,’ is an oral history project which centers Afro-Caribbean immigrants in New York City, and the ways that these immigrants, now understood as Black immigrants, re/construct identity as Black and/or African American, through the meaning-making and double process of “coming simultaneously into ‘America’ and into ‘Black America’” (Kasinitz, 1992, 32).