Mamiri Imai

Advisor: Manisha Sinha

Research Interests: Nineteenth-Century United States, Black Abolitionist Feminists, Transnational History, Counter-Mapping, Gender and Queer History.

Bio: Mamiri Imai is a doctoral student studying black women’s citizenship and freedom in the 19th century, abolitionist feminists’ transnational mobility and emigration project, and Black women’s remaking maps and geographical sense. She is also working on making a queer zine.

Awards: The Best Master’s Dissertation Award of the Graduate School of Arts at Rikkyo University (Tokyo, Japan) / March 2020.