BRISTOL – Kamille Gentles-Peart, a communication studies professor at Roger Williams University, has been named a Fulbright scholar by the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Scholarship Board, the university announced.
RWU says Gentles-Peart received the scholarship so she can continue her research on how Black women engage with and survive attitudes and practices surrounding curvy Black female bodies in “postcolonial” Caribbean countries.
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In the upcoming academic year, Gentles-Peart will explore ways in which race, gender, nationality and body aesthetics influence Black women’s lives in Trinidad and Tobago, RWU said.
The university said Gentles-Peart will specifically examine how Black women navigate conflicting discourses of a lingering colonial legacy favoring Eurocentric body ideals and the Afro Caribbean celebration of Black female bodies.
Gentles-Peart is the 10th RWU faculty member to be named a Fulbright scholar or a Fulbright visiting scholar, the university said.
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