Email: armanis@unc.edu
Phone:
Office: Alumni 410A
Area of Interest
Black feminist epistemologies; Black geographies; the American South; Food and performance tradition; Food sovereignty; Veganism; Urban ethnography; Cultural Competency in Public Health
Education
M.A. in Africana Studies, Georgia State University, 2023
Thesis Title: Poetics of Black Foodscapes: A qualitative study exploring black culinary epistemologies in the food practices of urban-dwelling African American women experiencing food apartheid.
Thesis Committee:
Dr. Sarita Davis
Dr. Stephanie Evans
Dr. Jennifer Patico
B.A. in English, Xavier University of Louisiana, 2021
Professional Background
I served as a Health Equity Fellow with the Association of State Public Health Nutritionists (ASPHN) at Morehouse School of Medicine Prevention Research Center (MSM PRC) in Atlanta, Georgia from January 2023 – April 2023.
Research
My current research takes a multidisciplinary lens to look at the intersections of race, gender, class, geography, culture, and health, and the ways in which these factors shape the food practices of urban-dwelling African American women.
Primarily, my research centers the interior lives of black women and their food practices using community-based participatory research (CBPR) methods and black women-centered frameworks. Additionally, my research explores plant-based lifestyles and the ways in which this food practice functions in historically black communities in addressing the health disparities amongst African American women in the American South.