Emma Banks

Emma Banks
Mark Claster Mamolen Dissertation Workshop 2017 Alumna

Emma Banks holds Ph.D. in anthropology from Vanderbilt University. In fall 2022, she will join the faculty at Bucknell University as an Assistant Professor of International Relations. She has worked as a solidarity activist and researcher with Afro-descendant and Indigenous communities displaced by coal mining in Colombia since 2013. As part of decolonizing this research, she launched el Archivo Afro Guajiro, a community-led digital archive project in 2021.