Dana Annette McIntyre

PhD Candidate in Sociology   

Email: dana.mcintyre@stonybrook.edu

Dana McIntyre is a Brooklyn Native who is currently a fourth year doctoral student at Stony Brook University. She is interested in community-engaged research that explores the sociology of anti-blackness and coloniality and how It constructs collective memory, the political economy, and black liberation narratives across the African Diaspora, more specifically in the Caribbean. She was the recipient of the 2021 International Graduate Research Fellowship Award from the University of Massachusetts Amherst  and traveled to Ghana in 2022 for a Fulbright-Hayes Group Study Abroad fellowship, which has given her the opportunity to study decolonial approaches to research and engage with culturally diverse communities within African Diaspora. Dana also was the recipient of the 2023 Latin American & Caribbean Studies (LACS) Summer Research Award to conduct a project exploring collective memory and culture within West Indian Education. Dana has an MPH in Health Policy & Management from New York University.