More About Me

Kiana Knight, historian, with curly dark hair, blue eyes, and a nose ring, posing with her chin resting on her hand against a red gradient background.

I am currently a Beloved Community Transformation Postdoctoral Fellow and Research Associate in the Africana Studies Department at the University of Notre Dame. I received my Ph.D. in Africana Studies from Brown University. My current book project, Translating Racial Uplift: Black Women, Language and Internationalist Politics, examines the self-help activism of Black bilingual (English/Spanish) women in the Greater Spanish Caribbean and the United States during the twentieth century. I am a proud HBCU graduate of North Carolina Central University where I received my bachelor's in history. I received a master's in history from the University of Pittsburgh. I am passionate about ensuring that my scholarship is accessible to the communities at the heart of my work and to the broader public. In my free time, I enjoy yoga, spending time with friends and family, traveling, going down Wikipedia rabbit holes, and taking long walks.