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Prisca Gayles is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Gender, Race, and Identity at the University of Nevada, Reno. She holds a Ph.D. in Latin American Studies from UT-Austin with doctoral portfolios in African Diaspora and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Her research focuses on transnational Black social movements, emotions in activism, and the politicization of blackness in spaces of racial invisibility. She is currently completing a book titled Pain into Purpose: Mobilizing Emotions in Argentina’s Black Resistance Movement, forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.
Dr. Gayles’ education includes a B.A. in Hispanic Languages and Literature from the University of Pittsburgh (2010), an M.A. in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies from the University of South Florida (2013), and her Ph.D. from UT-Austin (2020). Her work has been supported by prestigious grants including the Tinker Foundation, Fulbright Program, and National Endowment for the Humanities.
Her research interests span Black Feminist Theory, Afro-Latin American feminisms, migration studies, and the African diaspora in Argentina. Recent articles explore themes such as black women’s territorialization in Buenos Aires, Latin American white multiculturalism critiques, and historical activism in Argentina. Her scholarship appears in journals like Gender, Place, and Culture and Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies.
Award highlights include the Gaius Charles Bolin Dissertation Fellowship and ACLS fellowship. She teaches courses on intersectional analysis, social movements, qualitative research methods, and theories of oppression at both undergraduate and graduate levels.
