Jamya Robinson

Jamya M. Robinson (she/her) is a PhD Candidate in the Sociology Department at the University of Notre Dame. In 2021, she earned my B.S. in Urban Studies and Public Policy from Dillard University in New Orleans, LA. Her research specialties are collective memory, Black cultural expressions, and material culture.

Jamya is a former Burns Fellow with Notre Dame’s Institute for Educational Initiative and a graduate student affiliated with the Initiative on Race and Resilience, Klau Institute for Civil and Human Rights, and Center for Research on Educational Opportunity (CREO). Using ethnographic observations and in-depth interviews, her dissertation project examines how Blackness—as a racial, cultural, and political identity—is constructed through and by Black history museums using the National Museum of African American History and Culture as a case study.