Alice Cleora Reeves Endowed Dissertation Awardees

2025-2026 Alice Cleora Reeves Endowed Dissertation Awardee

Idowu Odeyemi

PhD Student, Department of Philosophy, College of Arts & Sciences2025-2026 Alice Cleora Reeves Endowed Dissertation Awardee
CAAAS Graduate FellowsCAAAS Doctoral Fellows

Idowu Odeyemi is a PhD candidate in the Department of Philosophy at the ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ. His research and teaching centers on epistemology, moral philosophy, and social and political philosophy. He is an alumnus of the Open Student Workshop at the University of Oxford. His essay "Living in America, Leaving Nigeria" was recognized as one of the 18 notable essays by a Nigerian in 2023. The philosophical issues he tends to focus on are non-idealized, particularly focusing on how to morally evalu...

2024-2025 CAAAS Alice Cleora Reeves Endowed Dissertation Awardee

Nandi Pointer

PhD Student, Department of Media Studies, College of Media, Communication and Information (CMCI)2024-2025 CAAAS Alice Cleora Reeves Endowed Dissertation Awardee
CAAAS Graduate FellowsCAAAS Doctoral Fellows

Nandi Pointer is a doctoral candidate in the College of Media, Communication and Information at the University of Colorado, Boulder advised by Dr. Sandra Ristovska. Her multimodal dissertation, which includes the completion of a documentary film, focuses on Black American male identity formation and its rearticulation in Black expats. She holds a Master of Journalism from the University of California at Berkeley, where she produced her first award-winning documentary Highway of Dreams. The film investigates...