Jovonne Bickerstaff ,Sociology Department, Harvard University





	Jovonne Bickerstaff Graduate Student in Sociology Biographical Note Jovonne Bickerstaff is an alumna of MIT (2002 - BS in Urban Studies & Planning; BS in Writing & Humanistic Studies) and of the University of Cambridge, St. Johns College (2005 - MPhil in Social & Developmental Psychology), where she was a Cambridge Gates Scholar. In 2003 she received the US FULBRIGHT GRANT, and spent 2003-2004 academic year as an auditing sociology student at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, France and continued that research for her MPhil writing a dissertation exploring issues surrounding integration of children of African immigrants in France, entitled "How One Calls A Thing: Identity, Representation and Action among Young adults of Sub-Saharan African Descent born in France." Her general interests include national identification among 2nd generation immigrants, France, communication patterns in black American romantic relationships, trasnational definitions and articulations of "blackness", ethnic/racial and national identity, ethnography and portraiture 10/26/2007 Research Interests national identification among 2nd generation immigrants, France, communication patterns in black American romantic relationships, trasnational definitions and articulations of "blackness", ethnic/racial and national identity, ethnography and portraiture Miscellaneous Additional Information Grants Received NSF Fellowship 2007, Ford Foundation Predoctoral 2007	Contact 617-496-3846 (Phone) 617-496-5794 (FAX) 609 William James Hall 33 Kirkland Street Cambridge, MA 02138