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Naima Adams

Ph.D. Student
Naima Adams
Pronouns They / Them / Theirs Email atadams@usc.edu

Biography

Born and raised in Las Vegas, Nevada, Naima Adams (she/they) is a Ph.D. Candidate in American Studies and Ethnicity. Her writing and public programming operate at the nexus of black feminist aesthetic theory, media studies, and science and technology studies. 

Her dissertation, Black Obsolescence: The Affective Ruse and Plastic World of Sex, Memory, and Analog Technology, grapples with the entwined fate of two things designed for disposability, yet made to last—plastic analog technology and plasticized blackened flesh. She studies the sensorial logics, material culture, and material science...

Education

  • B.A. Occidental College, 5/2017

  • Summary Statement of Research Interests

    Media Archaeology, Black Diasporic Feminist Theory, Polymer Chemistry, Material Culture Studies, Environmental & Elemental Media Studies, Science & Technology Studies, Queer/Trans of Color Critique, Petrocapitalism, Performance Studies, Memory & Affect Theory.