https://www.alexandriarmiller.com/events daily 0.75 2020-04-04 https://www.alexandriarmiller.com/events/event-five-5h9fe monthly 0.5 2019-07-11 https://www.alexandriarmiller.com/events/event-four-strcx monthly 0.5 2019-07-11 https://www.alexandriarmiller.com/events/event-three-jp8m3 monthly 0.5 2019-07-11 https://www.alexandriarmiller.com/events/event-two-48kw8 monthly 0.5 2019-07-11 https://www.alexandriarmiller.com/events/event-one-erpb9 monthly 0.5 2019-07-10 https://www.alexandriarmiller.com/home daily 1.0 2026-04-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e88b4f72819817fec315c28/1594084015285-HTWDIXGRBYKGUK129ZIX/image-asset.jpeg Home - Research Interests Jamaican History and Culture Black Feminisms Cultural Studies Caribbean Popular Culture Gender & Sexuality Black Women's Intellectual History Business History https://www.alexandriarmiller.com/about daily 0.75 2026-04-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e88b4f72819817fec315c28/0d5b8205-73c3-44e0-8ecf-53108ee305e2/Down+Town+FB.jpg About - Dr. Alexandria Miller is an award-winning historian, writer, and multimedia documentarian dedicated to preserving and amplifying Caribbean stories. As the founder and host of podcast and digital platform Strictly Facts: A Guide to Caribbean History and Culture, she has earned awards from the Alliance for Women in Media and Carib Biz Network. Launched in 2021 and produced by Breadfruit Media, Strictly Facts explores the rich tapestry of Caribbean stories told through the eyes of its people while empowering, elevating, and unifying the region, its various cultures, and its global reach beyond borders. Dr. Miller earned her Ph.D. in Africana Studies from Brown University in 2026. Her research explores Black women’s intellectual history, labor, and participation in the cultural economy in Jamaica and has been supported by the American Association of University Women and several research institutes at Brown University. She is also the co-editor of Unbordering Migration Studies in the Caribbean and Latin America and has work published in Diversifying the Space of Podcasting: Access, Identity, and Reflective Practices; African American Activism and Political Engagement: An Encyclopedia of Empowerment; and Women, Gender, and Families of Color. As part of The Beautiful Project, Miller’s photography was part of the Pen, Lens & Soul: The Story of The Beautiful Project exhibit as part of the 2019-2020 Collaborative for Creative Practice and Social Justice at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. In 2018, Miller was selected as one of the “30 Under 30 Caribbean American Emerging Leaders” by the Institute of Caribbean Studies. https://www.alexandriarmiller.com/publications daily 0.75 2026-04-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e88b4f72819817fec315c28/d5196920-5592-4756-8683-822fcca054e8/Unbordering.jpg Publications & Media - Unbordering Migration Studies in the Caribbean and Latin America | Edited by Patsy Lewis, Kristen A. Kolenz, and Alexandria Miller | 2026 Unbordering Migration Studies in the Caribbean and Latin America brings together scholars and artists across regions, generations, disciplines, and modes of expression to decenter the US-Mexico border as both a site and a concept. Calling for renewed attention to the spaces, identities, and conflicts that remain understudied and excluded from our hemispheric knowledge of forced movement, the volume reveals a wider diversity of migratory realities and considers race, ethnicity, and class beyond the hegemonic formations that eclipse non-US histories. Through multidisciplinary and geographically expansive essays that draw from history, social anthropology, environmental studies, feminist studies, and lived experience, the volume examines diverse migratory flows from Chile and Argentina in the South to Georgia and New York in the North. Individually and collectively, the essays remap migratory movements other than through the most studied South-to-North trajectories and remove the US and US-based racial formations from the center of analysis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e88b4f72819817fec315c28/6584de77-6834-4f12-b916-d3ac99fe62c7/9781666979657.jpg Publications & Media - Diversifying the Space of Podcasting: Access, Identity, and Reflective Practices | 2025 “Caribbean Podcasters: Diverse Representation and Forging Contemporary Cultural Unity” by Alexandria Miller and Kerry-Ann Reid-Brown When people think of the Caribbean, they think of lush beaches, drinks with umbrellas, and “no worries mon.” Tell your friends you’re visiting Jamaica or any other Caribbean island, and they’ll either fawn in excitement or warn you about how dangerous it is. Oftentimes, people visit the region without considering the rich and vibrant culture created by its people besides tourism–its complex history and activism, the developments of entrepreneurship, entertainment, present-day social issues, and how the Caribbean diaspora impacts the trends that arise from the region. When outsiders hear the word “Caribbean,” they might only think of the region’s location; they might never consider that the Caribbean is not only a geographical area but it is also an identity that extends beyond the region and into its large diaspora that, as we later outline in this chapter, has been espoused by generations of movements and migrations https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e88b4f72819817fec315c28/20440fe6-f1a5-46d3-acab-54d7322c490b/front_cover.jpeg Publications & Media - Women, Gender, and Families of Color Vol. 9 No. 2 | 2021 “‘Lioness Order’: The Women of the Reggae Revival Speak” This article investigates the role of contemporary women in reggae music and details the unexpectedness of their growing role in the current industry, given their relative absence since the 1970s. Through critical studies of singers Janine “Jah9” Cunningham and Kelissa [McDonald], I historicize the evolution of female songstresses and their contributions to changing the rhetoric around women’s positionalities in music and their relationship to Caribbean feminisms. Using an interdisciplinary framework that incorporates an intersectional lens with focuses on race, gender, and class, I analyze song lyrics and visual imagery that illuminate Caribbean womanhood. By critically analyzing music lyrics and videos of this movement, this essay builds on Jamaica’s far-reaching history of Black resistance and highlights Jamaican twenty-first-century conversations about anti-imperialism, Rastafari, Afrocentricity, and poverty within Black feminism and women’s empowerment. Lastly, I theorize concerning these women’s cultural contributions as intellectual property, helping to shape the Black radical tradition through music and politics. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e88b4f72819817fec315c28/5d806175-2808-46df-b387-81bf6a3e3e38/m_ucpjpms_31_4_cover.png Publications & Media - Journal of Popular Music Studies Vol. 31 No. 4. | 2019 “Country Music for People Who Don't Like Country Music: Sturgill Simpson and Outlaw Privilege” by Adam Hollowell and Alexandria Miller This essay explores white masculinity and the recuperation of privilege in the figure of Sturgill Simpson, an American country music singer from Jackson, Kentucky. Operating at the intersection of country music studies and third wave whiteness studies, it demonstrates how Simpson deploys the outsider identity of the industry outlaw to recuperate insider benefits of critical acclaim, commercial success, and creative license. As an artist who makes country music for “people who don't like country music,” Simpson functions as a representative figure of the adaptive tactics of white masculinity and the broader politics of inclusion and exclusion in contemporary country music. https://www.alexandriarmiller.com/contact daily 0.75 2026-04-06 https://www.alexandriarmiller.com/conferences daily 0.75 2020-07-27