Christin Washington

Christin Washington is a PhD Candidate in the Department of American Studies and a Flagship Fellow at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is also a Graduate Research Assistant with the African American Digital & Experimental Humanities (AADHum) research and design lab. Her scholarship stretches media and modes of digital storytelling (i.e. photography, photogrammetry, laser scanning, virtual reality) to articulate cultural memory across black geographies.

Her dissertation, tentatively titled “Dis Place: How Black women haunt Americans landscapes from the 19th century to the present,” focuses on Black women in the United States and the Caribbean whose practice and production of African-derived and -syncretic spiritualities guide their transit across the Americas. She is interested in how these black feminists and spiritual practitioners are infrastructural to modern geography; often below the threshold of perception, elemental to modern life, and mythological in the collective imagination.

Christin holds a Digital Studies in the Arts and Humanities (DSAH) certificate and a Museum Scholarship and Material Culture (MSMC) certificate from the University of Maryland, College Park. She is an alumna of Amherst College where she graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in Black Studies and Political Science.