Anika Asthana is a member of the class of 2025 from San Jose, California. She is pursuing a degree in the History department and a certificate in Gender and Sexuality Studies. Her research interests are focused on the construction, ruptures, and slippages of race, gender and sexuality. Anika is the author of two pieces: “Border…

Gustavo is a member of the class of 2025 in the Sociology department with a focus on environment & innovation, and certificates in Latin American Studies and Entrepreneurship. Of Aymara Indigenous roots, Gustavo Blanco is an environmental activist based in Oruro, Bolivia. At the age of 16, he began working on community…

Luis Xavier Guaman is a member of the class of 2026 from Newark, New Jersey. He is pursuing a degree in the Politics Department. His current research interests lie in American Politics, Race and Ethnicity Politics, Latino Politics, Law and Courts, and Public Opinion. Luis spent the summer of 2024 at the University of Michigan - Ann…

Jeielle Habinam is a member of the class of 2026 from Goma, D. R. Congo. She is pursuing a major in Anthropology and minors in African Studies and French. Jeielle’s research interests draw from history, sociology, and ethnographic anthropology. She is interested in exploring memory preservation and the archival of Congolese history…

Rosangela López is a member of the class of 2025 from South East Los Angeles, California. She is pursuing a degree in the Sociology Department, a minor in Latino Studies, and a certificate in Latin American Studies. Her research interests lie in carceral studies, addiction, race and ethnicity, and ethnic identity. Her junior year…

Ila P. Nako is a member of the class of 2026 from O‘ahu, Hawai‘i. She is majoring in Anthropology with a certificate in American Studies. Her research interests draw from Anthropology, Indigenous Studies, Pacific Islander Studies, Religion, and Political Science. As part of an all-indigenous research group, Nuclear Princeton, Ila…

Sarah Payne is a member of the class of 2026 from Higginsville, Missouri. She is pursuing a major in Comparative Literature and minors in Humanistic Studies and Chinese Language. Her research interests lie in the fields of comparative literature, translation and literary theory, reception studies, and East Asian Studies. Sarah is…

Amber Rahman is a member of the class of 2025 from New York City. She is pursuing a major in African American Studies, a minor in Near Eastern Studies, and a certificate in Technology and Society. Amber’s research interests include Black Internationalism, Surveillance, Palestine, Abolition, and Empire. 

Amber’s…

Wasif Sami is a member of the class of 2025 from Hillsborough, New Jersey. He is majoring in Anthropology with minors in Theater & Music Theater and Gender & Sexuality Studies. Wasif’s research bridges performance studies, anthropology of religion, and queer and trans studies. In his junior paper titled “Queer Unbecomings: Ex…

Layla Williams is a member of the class of 2025 from Land O’ Lakes, Florida. She is majoring in African American Studies, with minors in Theater and Music Theater and Creative Writing. Her research interests lie in global and local conceptions of race and gender in theater, musical theater, and performance. 

Layla…