Rashad Arman Timmons

Rashad Arman Timmons serves as a President's Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, mentored by Professor Jaime Alves. His research investigates Black Diaspora geographies, infrastructural violence, and radical resistance movements.

His academic background includes:

• B.A. in Journalism, Michigan State University
• M.A. in Journalism, Michigan State University
• Ph.D. in African American and African Diaspora Studies, University of California, Berkeley

Timmons' scholarship centers on critical analyses of anti-Black violence through spatial and performative frameworks. His doctoral work examined Ferguson's infrastructural violence as embodied Black experience, while current research explores media-mediated resistance networks across the Black Diaspora. This interdisciplinary approach bridges geography, performance theory, and radical politics to document community survival strategies.

His recognition includes:

• President's Postdoctoral Fellowship

As a postdoctoral fellow, Timmons contributes to departmental research initiatives under faculty mentorship, advancing critical scholarship in Black Studies through archival and ethnographic methodologies.