Taharka Anderson

Taharka Anderson is a doctoral candidate in African & African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin (UT), his research generally concerns: Black Studies; Black Education History & Philosophy; Black Men and Boys’ Health and Vulnerabilities; School Discipline and Carcerality. He is currently working on his phenomenological dissertation, which historicizes Black masculinity within Western social systems and explores how college-aged Black males experienced, made sense of, and navigated punitive and exclusionary discipline in U.S. schools. Since 2021, he has been a Graduate Teaching Assistant and Grader for UT’s dynamic student population in courses such as Numbering Race, Sociology of Education, Promise & Perils of U.S. Public Education, He was also appointed by the African & African Diaspora Studies Department to serve as their Graduate Student Representative on UT's College of Liberal Arts Graduate Student Advisory Council and has been the Graduate Student Representative for the Black Studies Graduate Student Organization.