Bio
Sarah-Anne Gresham is a Ph.D. candidate from Antigua and Barbuda. She received a Fulbright scholarship in 2018 to pursue a Master of Arts degree in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at George Washington University. She graduated as a Columbian College of Arts and Sciences Graduate Distinguished Scholar in recognition of her MA thesis and work in the program as a research and program assistant.
She received a 2025 Hosei International Fund International Scholars Fellowship from Hosei University in Tokyo, Japan, where she spent six months conducting fieldwork, convening panels, and presenting at conferences on her developing dissertation, titled “The Intimacies of Afro/Japanese Desire Machines: A Material and Affective Inquiry into Black Women’s Relationships with Anime Characters.”
Sarah is the author of the 2024 Mechademia journal article "Black Bodies at Play: Race and Gender at the Edges of Subjectivity" and the forthcoming article, "Traveling Theory: The Promises and Pitfalls of Intersectionality" to be published in the Routledge Companion to Gender and Feminist Studies in the Caribbean.
At Rutgers, she served as the program assistant for the Race and Gender Equity (RAGE) Lab, founded by Dr. Brittney Cooper.
She is also the co-founder of Intersect Antigua-Barbuda, a Queeribbean feminist collective that organizes virtual teach-ins and publishes creative fiction, critical essays, and art.
Through Intersect, she was awarded a Women's Voice and Leadership - Caribbean grant, a Black Feminist Fund Solidarity Grant, and a CAISO-Astraea Responsive Grant. She also served as a board member on the Equality Fund Board of Directors from 2021-2024.
Preferred Pronoun: She/Her/Hers
Fellowships/Grants/Awards:
- Graduate Distinguished Scholar (2020)
- Emily B. Proctor Research Award (2020)
- Service to the Community of Women Award (2020)
- Ruth Helm Osborn Research Fellowship, (2019)
- Graduate Prize for Feminist Scholarship (2019)
- Student Professional & Career Development Award (2019)
- Fulbright Foreign Student Scholarship (2018)