Bryce Henson

Dr. Bryce Henson is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication & Journalism and associate faculty in the Africana Studies Program at Texas A&M University. He holds a Ph.D. from the Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and a double B.A. in Communication and Accounting from the University of Washington. Last year, he was the Fulbright Distinguished Scholar at the Universidade Federal da Bahia in Brazil. His research interests include African Diaspora studies,  cultural studies, urban marronage, aquilombamento, global Black intellectual traditions, media studies, and critical ethnography. He is the author of Emergent Quilombos: Black Life and Hip-Hop in Brazil (University of Texas Press, 2023) which has received the 2024 NCA Critical/Cultural Studies Division Book of the Year Award and honorable mention for the 2024 Roberto Reis First Book Prize Award from the Brazilian Studies Association. He is also a co-editor of Spaces of New Colonialism: Reading Schools, Museums, and Cities in the Tumult of Globalization (Peter Lang, 2020). His journal articles and book chapters stretch across communication, cultural studies, Black studies, Latin American studies, and anthropology. His courses include popular culture, cultural studies & critical theory, Black cultural studies, gender, race, & media, media & identity, media studies, and global media. He currently serves as an advisory board member for the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD). He is also an associate editor for Transforming Anthropology, the journal for the Association of Black Anthropologists.