Meet Humanities Faculty Member, Jasmine Nichole Cobb

As part of its event series tgiFHI, the Franklin Humanities Institute is conducting interviews with its faculty speakers. In this edited and condensed interview, Dr. Cobb describes the enduring questions of what Black freedom means across time and visual media, the history of violence relating to Afro-textured hair and racial capitalism, and the weirdest (and grossest) thing she found in the archives. Read more here and check out Dr. Cobb's virtual tgiFHI talk titled Tactility and the Texture of Racial Capitalism here.