Alison H. Kibbe, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of African American Studies
Alison H Kibbe is an Assistant Professor of African American Studies at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø. She is a scholar, multidisciplinary artist, and cultural organizer. She joined the college in 2025.
About Dr. Kibbe
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Ph.D., American Studies & Black Studies, Yale University
B.A., Cultural Anthropology, Duke University
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Research Interests
Dr. Kibbe's research explores Black movement and belonging throughout the Americas, with particular attention to the role of food in Black life, culture, and history. Her current project examines the relationship between Black migration, gender, cultural production, and the corporate plantation in the early 20th-century Caribbean and Latin America, drawing on her family's history of migration and home-making across Jamaica, Cuba, Panama, and the United States. This work engages broader questions of cross-national, multi-lingual, and multi-ethnic Black identity, black feminist methods and knowledge production, as well as the connections across the Caribbean, Latin America, and the U.S. South.
She employs Black feminist approaches to embodied and multi-disciplinary research, including oral history, ethnography, and critical performance studies. Dr. Kibbe's approach is grounded in engaged research, creative practice, and collaboration. In her creative practice, she works with dance, performance, literary arts, and dialogue, using oral history and ethnographic research to develop multi-faceted storytelling experiences.
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Courses
Introduction to African American Studies
Black Food Studies