The Corporation of Brown University

Amanda Boston, who earned master's and doctoral degrees in Africana studies from Brown in 2016 and 2018, respectively, is a Provost's Postdoctoral Fellow at New York University and an assistant professor/faculty fellow at NYU's Marron Institute of Urban Management. Her research, writing and teaching focus on 20th-century African American urban history, politics and culture. At Brown, Boston was a Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellow, a graduate fellow with both the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America and the Spatial Structures in the Social Sciences initiative, president of the Nabrit Black Graduate Student Association, and a mentor in the Brown Center for Students of Color's ALANA program. She also worked with the Graduate Resources for Improving Professional Structures program and served on the Diversity and Inclusion Oversight Board and the Graduate Student Advisory Committee for the Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning. Prior to attending Brown, Boston earned bachelor's and master's degrees from Duke University. Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, she sits on the alumni council of the New York City-based Prep for Prep program, which provides students of color with access to life-changing educational and leadership opportunities.