Asia Leeds

Asia Leeds is a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the African Diaspora and the World Program at Spelman College. She previously held a Dean’s Social Science in Practice Postdoctoral Fellowship (2010-2012) at UCLA, jointly affiliated with African American Studies and History. Her research focuses on intersections of gender, Pan-Africanism, and migration in Afro-Latin America.

Research interests include:

• Racial politics of citizenship in Central America
• Caribbean migration dynamics
• Garveyism's gendered dimensions

Publications include an upcoming 2013 article in Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International. No awards explicitly listed, though her scholarly contributions reflect active engagement in diasporic studies. Teaching emphasizes critical frameworks for understanding global black experiences.