Sophia Azeb (she/they) is an assistant professor of Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Teaching and research interests include the study of African Diasporic cultures and politics; transnational and translational Blackness; memory studies; representations of war in graphic novels and film; literature, visual arts, and poetics of disaster, particularly in relation to Palestine and the Palestinian diaspora; nationalism and statelessness; the intersections of race and sport; and Third Worldism.