About Chrystel Oloukoi

I study nightlife and policing in colonial and postcolonial Lagos (Nigeria). My work is at the intersection of urban studies, film, gender and sexuality studies, and Black studies. I currently hold a position as an Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Washington.

NBN Episodes hosted by Chrystel:

Jen Rose Smith, "Ice Geographies: The Colonial Politics of Race and Indigeneity in the Arctic" (Duke UP, 2025)

September 30, 2025

Ice Geographies

Jen Rose Smith
Hosted by Chrystel Oloukoi

Ice animates the look and feel of climate change. It is melting faster than ever before, causing social upheaval among northern coastal communities an…