William James Carter, a student at The University of California, Berkeley, is a winner of the 2023 Heumann-Armstrong Award.
More about William:
William James Carter (he/him) is a PhD Student and Fulbright Scholar from SE London, England, in the Geography Department at the University of California, Berkeley. He works within the Berkeley Black Geographies Project, studying the aquatic histories of the Atlantic World and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. He examines the origins of racialisation and the process by which Blackness became associated with danger through sequentially theorizing the experiences of the enslaved through the contested geographies of riverine, littoral west/central Africa, and the slave ship.
William is neurodivergent and, alongside his academics, engages in extensive community engagement around neurodiversity and Disability Justice. These efforts include co-developing the ‘Accessibility Beyond Compliance’ (ABC) Initiative, a ‘Neurodiversity Clinic’ at Berkeley’s University Health Services, and the Neurodiversity Task Force of the UC Berkeley Graduate Division. You can read more about his work on his department profile, download his digital business card, or check out his new Instagram @7hours13days (he’s a massive Prince fan).
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