Ruthie Block is a PhD student in English and African American Studies and a graduate fellow at the Yale Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration (RITM). Ruthie’s research focuses on marronage as a space of Black radical possibility and considers fugitivity in the context of the revolutionary movements of the post-emancipation era. Prior to starting graduate school, Ruthie worked in non-fiction book publishing for four years and was a research assistant at Tufts University’s Center for the Study of Race and Democracy along with the African American Trail Project.
Maroon Studies; Fugitivity Studies; 19th - 21st Century African American and Black diasporic literature; Archival Studies; Black radical movement histories
Tufts University, B.A. Africana Studies; B.A. English