Chanel Jenay Prince

Chanel is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She earned her B.A. in Sociology at Buffalo State College and her M.A. in the Social Sciences at the University of Chicago. She is a qualitative researcher with interests in cultural sociology, race/class/gender, and the ongoing Black freedom struggle. Chanel's first research project examines Black women graduate students’ experiences code switching in white academic settings. Her dissertation research explores the impacts of Black placemaking at Afropunk.

Cultural Sociology; Race/Class/Gender; Black Feminism; Black Placemaking; Black Freedom Struggles; Empowerment/Resistance; Qualitative Methods