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About Reighan Gillam
Reighan Gillam is an Associate Professor in the Department of Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies at Dartmouth College. Her research examines the ways in which Afro-Brazilian media producers foment anti-racist visual politics through their image creations. She is the author of Visualizing Black Lives: Ownership and Control in Afro-Brazilian Media (University of Illinois Press).
NBN Episodes hosted by Reighan:
March 15, 2026
The Remarkable Life of Reed Peggram
On the eve of World War II, a handsome young scholar arrived in Paris. The queer, Black son of a housecleaner, who had nevertheless been decorated in …
March 13, 2026
Options for Success
Options for Success: A PhD's Guide to Navigating Career Transitions and Thriving in Your Next Professional Chapter (Oxford UP, 2025) is a transformati…
February 18, 2026
Black Orpheus and the Globalization of Afro-Brazilian Culture
“Black Orpheus” and the Globalization of Afro-Brazilian Culture (Rutgers UP, 2026) is the first historical study in English to examine the development…
February 14, 2026
Food Justice Undone
Food justice activists have worked to increase access to healthy food in low-income communities of color across the United States. Yet despite their b…
December 23, 2025
Local Color
The Caribbean port city of Veracruz is many things. It is where the Spanish first settled and last left the colony that would go on to become Mexico. …
December 20, 2025
Who's in the Room?
Who’s in the Room?: A Guide to Public Relations from the Black Professional Perspective (Kendall Hunt, 2025) has been created to serve as a resource t…
November 8, 2025
Becoming Gods
In Becoming Gods: Medical Training in Mexican Hospitals (Rutgers University Press, 2021), Vania Smith-Oka follows a cohort of interns throughout their…
October 14, 2025
Dreaming Down the Track
The product of years of embedded fieldwork within Indigenous film crews in Northwestern Australia, Dreaming Down the Track: Awakenings in Aboriginal C…
September 13, 2025
Moorings
Moorings: Voyages of Capital across the Indian Ocean (U of California Press, 2025) follows sailors from the Gulf of Kachchh in India as they voyage ac…
September 11, 2025
Encountering Race in Albania
Encountering Race in Albania: An Ethnography of the Communist Afterlife (Cornell University Press, 2025) is the first book to interrogate race and rac…
August 26, 2025
Manufacturing Celebrity
While Hollywood’s images present a veneer of fantasy for some, the work to create such images is far from escapism. In Manufacturing Celebrity: Latino…
July 6, 2025
Moved by the Dead
In the sprawling city of São Paulo, a weekly practice known as devotion to souls (devoção às almas) draws devotees to Catholic churches, cemeteries, a…
June 25, 2025
Defending Rumba in Havana
In Defending Rumba in Havana: The Sacred and the Black Corporeal Undercommons (Duke University Press, 2025), anthropologist and dancer Maya J. Berry e…
June 15, 2025
The Revolution Within
The New Preachers of Egypt—so named because of their novel preaching styles, which incorporate everything from melodrama to music to self-help—came to…
April 4, 2025
The Trouble of Color
Martha S. Jones grew up feeling her Black identity was obvious to all who saw her. But weeks into college, a Black Studies classmate challenged Jones’…
March 22, 2025
Tackling the Everyday
Big-time college football promises prestige, drama, media attention, and money. Yet most athletes in this unpaid, amateur system encounter a different…
February 10, 2025
Dark Laboratory
In 1492, Christopher Columbus arrived on the Caribbean Island of Guanahaní to find an Edenic scene that was soon mythologized. But behind the myth of …
January 22, 2025
God's Waiting Room
Can older racists change their tune, or will they haunt us further once they're gone? Rich in mystery and life's lessons, God's Waiting Room: Racial R…
January 7, 2025
Captive City
Cities are fraught sites in the national imagination, turned into identity markers when “urban” and “rural” indicate tastes rather than places. Cities…
December 10, 2024
Excited Delirium
In 1980, Charles Wetli---a Miami-based medical examiner and self-proclaimed “cult expert” of Afro-Caribbean religions---identified what he called “exc…
September 21, 2024
The Unseen Truth
In a masterpiece of historical detective work, Sarah Lewis exposes one of the most damaging lies in American history. There was a time when Americans …
July 3, 2024
Global Guyana
Previously ranked among the hemisphere’s poorest countries, Guyana is becoming a global leader in per capita oil production, a shift which promises to…
June 13, 2024
Tabula Raza
In Tabula Raza: Mapping Race and Human Diversity in American Genome Science (University of California Press, 2024), Duana Fullwiley has penned an inti…
June 9, 2024
Visible Ruins
The Mexican Revolution (1910–1920) introduced a series of state-led initiatives promising modernity, progress, national grandeur, and stability; state…