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About Kiana Knight
I’m Kiana Knight, a historian of the African diaspora and Black internationalism whose work bridges academic research and public storytelling. I’m currently the Beloved Community Transformation Postdoctoral Fellow in Africana Studies at the University of Notre Dame. My first book project, Translating Racial Uplift: Black Women, Language, and Internationalist Politics, 1918–1985, explores how bilingual Black women across the circum-Caribbean used translation—both linguistic and cultural—to shape movements for racial and gender justice. I also maintain a side project (which I hope to become my second manuscript) on landownership, tobacco farming, and memory along the North Carolina–Virginia border, drawing on my family’s history to examine the broader politics of land and belonging. Beyond my research, I previously served as Managing Editor of Black Perspectives (African American Intellectual History Society), where I helped make conversations about Black history and thought accessible to wider audiences, and I continue to write public-facing essays that connect the archive to contemporary questions of race, place, and community.
NBN Episodes hosted by Kiana:
March 31, 2026
A Home Away from Home
A Home Away from Home: Mutual Aid, Political Activism, and Caribbean American Identity (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024) examines the significance of Carib…
November 26, 2025
Dominican Crossroads
H. C. C. Astwood: minister and missionary, diplomat and politician, enigma in the annals of US history. In Dominican Crossroads: H.C.C. Astwood and th…