Oral History Interview with Kaneesha Cherelle Parsard

DESCRIPTION
Oral history interview with Kaneesha Cherelle Parsard, conducted by Archival Creators Fellow Aleah Ranjitsingh.

Kaneesha Cherelle Parsard is an assistant professor of English at the University of Chicago. Her research concerns gender and sexuality amid the legacies of slavery and emancipation in the Caribbean and broader Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds. Her first book project, An Illicit Wage, is an aesthetic history of hoarding, sexual labor, and hustling, as practices of freedom in the nineteenth and twentieth century British West Indies. Kaneesha’s scholarship appears in Small Axe, South Atlantic Quarterly, Representations, boundary 2, and Verge: Studies in Global Asias.

AUDIO
Duration: 00:46:13

ADDITIONAL METADATA
Date: September 30, 2024
Subject(s): Kaneesha Cherelle Parsard
Type: Oral History
Language: English
Creator: Aleah Ranjitsingh
Location: Chicago, Illinois

PROVENANCE
Collection: Aleah Ranjitsingh Fellowship Project
Item History: 2025-02-23 (created); 2025-02-26 (modified)

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