Imani Wadud
The University of Regensburg
Germany

Imani Wadud is a Master's student in the American Studies Department at the University of Regensburg, where she focuses on European/American Cultural Studies. She is a Washington D.C. native who received a Bachelor's degree in Art History with a minor in Political Science in 2003 from the College of Wooster in Ohio. Currently, she works as a graduate research assistant at the Chair of American Studies. Her research examines how community-based arts projects simultaneously empower communities both transnationally and locally, the impact of social media in popular culture, and raced and gendered bodies amongst other topics. Broadly, Imani Wadud is interested in visual culture studies and performance studies.