Sena Amuzu

Sena Amuzu graduated from Smith College in 2024 with a B.A. in the Study of Women and Gender, minoring in Data Science and concentrating in Museum Studies. As an Undergraduate Mellon Mays Fellow, she conducted a research project entitled “Blackness a Boundless Medium: A socio-historical interrogation of blackness within the museum and its relation to notions of  ‘the body’.” Moving freely between databases, archives, and museums, art anchors her writing, which creatively and critically engages questions of embodiment—form, shape, space, temporalities—concerning theorizations of visuality, perception, and affect.

Sena plans to delve further into decolonial science and technology studies by bridging Black Feminist New Materialisms and Visual Culture Studies to engage in critical archival and data science critique. She sees museum education, curation, and art critique as a means of extending her academic inquiry to the general public. Her academic pursuits are rooted in the aim of working towards liberatory futures and actively resisting structural oppressions. Sena Amuzu is pursuing a combined Ph.D. in American Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.

Black Feminist Theory; Black Studies; Queer of Color Critique; Feminist New Materialisms; Critical Archival Studies; Critical Data Studies; STS; Visual Culture; 21-20th Century art