Graduate Student Bios

Sloane A. Cauthen is a first-year PhD student in History at Rutgers University, focusing on African American History and African Diaspora Studies. She received her B.A. in African American Studies, with minors in African American History and Psychology, from North Carolina A&T State University. Previously, she served as an Annie Bell Shepherd Intern in the Office of Collections at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Her research interests include Black women's artistic expression, nineteenth-century diasporic movements, literary resistance, and archival research.