Thabisile Griffin is a historian of the 18th century Atlantic world, Black indigeneity, and colonial insecurity. She has published for various outlets, including Ufahamu: A Journal of African Studies and the Journal of Architectural Education. Formerly an ACLS Global Racisms Fellow, she has lectured and programmed for the Ambedkar Initiative in the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University. Currently she is now Liberal Arts faculty at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) in Los Angeles.