Alice Cleora Reeves Endowed Dissertation Awardees
2025-2026 Alice Cleora Reeves Endowed Dissertation Awardee
Idowu Odeyemi
Idowu Odeyemi is a PhD candidate in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Colorado Boulder. His research and teaching centers on epistemology, moral philosophy, and social and political philosophy. He is an alumnus of the Open Student Workshop at the University of Oxford. His essay "Living in America, Leaving Nigeria" was recognized as one of the 18 notable essays by a Nigerian in 2023. The philosophical issues he tends to focus on are non-idealized, particularly focusing on how to morally evalu...
2024-2025 CAAAS Alice Cleora Reeves Endowed Dissertation Awardee
Nandi Pointer
Nandi Pointer is a PhD Candidate in Media Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. A former journalist and TV producer, Pointer studies questions about media, race, and identity. Incorporating writing and documentary filmmaking, her dissertation examines how and why Black men leave the U.S. to teach English in Southeast Asia and the Middle East and what their experiences illuminate about the global dynamics of race and racism. A recipient of the 2025 IAMCR Stuart Hall Award and the 2025 Dissertation C...
2023-2024 CAAAS Alice Cleora Reeves Endowed Dissertation Awardee
Shamika Klassen
Shamika is a doctoral candidate in the Information Science department at the University of Colorado Boulder advised by Dr. Casey Fiesler. She graduated from Stanford University with a degree in African and African-American studies. She then earned a Master of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary in the city of New York focusing her studies on technology, ethics, and social justice issues. While there, she also developed technowomanism as an ethical framework rooted in the womanist tradition and the wisd...
