Bio

Bryce Henson holds a Ph.D. from the Institute of Communications Research with graduate certificates
in cultural studies and Latin American & Caribbean Studies at the University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign. He is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication at Texas A&M
University. As a Black diasporic cultural studies scholar, he focuses on the intersection between
anti-Black racism and Black lived, expressive, and mediated cultures of political resistance and
possibility in the Americas. He teaches courses on Black cultural studies; media &
intersectionality; diaspora; cultural theory; qualitative methods; and popular culture. He is a
co-editor of Spaces of New Colonialism: Reading Schools, Museums, and Cities in the Tumult of
Globalization (2020). He is also an Executive Board Member for the Association for the Study of the
Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD). His current book project situates Black Brazilian hip-hop
artists and their expressive cultures within a sociopolitical history of marronage.