Angelica Allen

Angelica J. Allen is an Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Cornell University, holding a PhD in African and African Diaspora Studies from University of Texas at Austin and MA in Africana Studies from New York University. Her research examines the Black Amerasian community in the Philippines through critical ethnography, autoethnography, and visual ethnography.

Her scholarly contributions advance social justice through visibility for Black Amerasian perspectives in African Diaspora Studies, Asian American Studies, Black Pacific Studies, and Filipinx American Studies. She teaches courses on Black Pacific, Black Feminisms, Africana Studies, and Filipinx American History.

As a member of the Black Amerasian community, her work centers community-defined identities and survival strategies against anti-Blackness. She received Ford Foundation and Carter G. Woodson Institute fellowships, and is a visual artist.