Anaëlle Cama

Anaëlle Cama is a third-year Ph.D. student in the W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies at UMass Amherst. She graduated from Université Jean Moulin Lyon III with her bachelor’s in English and from Université Paris Cité with her master’s in Anglophone Studies with a major in American history. Anaëlle has worked as an archivist for the Black Feminist Archives at UMass Amherst in 2024, as an instructor on Black history in her department, and as a research assistant for Professor Yolanda Covington-Ward on research about recaptured Africans in Liberia. As part of her public history certificate, she is currently an intern at Historic Northampton, mostly working on archiving and interpreting enslaved labor in the Watson household. Her dissertation explores the ways that Black female cultural workers navigated Cold War repression and sustained the Chicago Black Renaissance through dissemblance.