Rashida K. Braggs is a scholar-performer who acts, dances, sings, composes music and performs spoken word. Jacob’s Pillow, Williams College Museum of Art, the Tapir Art Gallery and the United Solo Festival have featured her performances. She is also the Amos Lawrence Professor of Africana Studies and department chair, as well as a faculty affiliate in Comparative Literature at Williams College (Williamstown, Massachusetts), a Fulbright award winner, and a co-recipient of a National Endowment of the Humanities Fellowship. The author of Jazz Diasporas: Race, Music and Migration in Post-World War II Paris, Rashida has also published in such journals as the Nottingham French Studies, the Journal of Popular Music Studies and The Black Scholar.
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Yahoo, Rashida won the Development of a Creative Work Grant Award from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education to develop Act 2 of her solo interdisciplinary show! Here, you can check out the teaser for Amber in the City of Light.