Shamara Wyllie Alhassan

Shamara Wyllie Alhassan is an Africana Studies scholar and transnational ethnographer focusing on the ways Rastafari women build pan-African communities and combat anti-Black gendered racism and religious discrimination in the Caribbean and Africa. Her forthcoming book tentatively titled Remembering the Maternal Goddess: Rastafari Women’s Intellectual History and Activism in the Pan African World is winner of the National Women’s Association and University of Illinois Press First Book Prize. She is the coeditor of Black Women and Da Rona: Community, Consciousness, and Ethics of Care, which was published with the Feminist Wire Books series at the University of Arizona Press in 2023. Currently, she is Assistant Professor of African American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.