Korey Tillman is a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at UNM and has received a Fulbright Research Award to study in South Africa. His research sits at the nexus of race, policing, and empire. Tillman plans to visit archives and interview South Africans to understand how they are policed in their everyday lives. His dissertation traces a human-Black racial hierarchy that informs modernity and examines how in moments when Blackness is policed, this racial hierarchy is reified and challenged. As an abolitionist, the goal of his work is to build upon the legacies of the Black feminist and radical traditions to assert Black humanity and move towards a world where African diasporic communities receive care, not criminalization. Tillman received his B.S. in Computer Science from Syracuse University and his M.A. in Sociology from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. His research has been guided by rigor and care by Ranita Ray (UNM), Georgiann Davis (UNM), Susila Gurusami (UIC), and Vilna Bashi (Northwestern). He looks forward to his experience abroad and representing UNM. Feel free to connect with him on Twitter: @koreytillman_ or koreytillman.com.
