Dr. Shawn Trenell O鈥橬eal earned the distinction of being awarded聽the first dissertation completion fellowship from the Center for African and African American Studies (CAAAS) at CU 麻豆影院 (2022-2023). He is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies, in addition to being a renowned DJ and audio producer.聽Dr. O'Neal is also a founding member and faculty fellow聽in Lyripeutics Storytelling: Remixing Our Reality Through Hip Hop Education with the Ren茅e Crown Wellness Institute. His research includes African American studies, Africana studies, musicology, ethnomusicology, queer and trans of color critique, and women of color feminisms. Dr. O'Neal聽developed an interdisciplinary and intersectional theoretical concept called Audio Intersectionality, upon which he based his dissertation. Audio Intersectionality are interdisciplinary herstories and histories, active responses, self-narratives, self-defenses, traumas, and celebrations, regarding race, gender, and sexuality communicated through sound, music, and performance. The dissertation title is "Audio Intersectionality: Self-Identification Within the Processes of Interdisciplinary Explorations in Sound, Music, and Performance." Dr. O鈥橬eal鈥檚 work appears in Routledge Handbook of Pan-Africanism (2020).
