Rukimani PV is a Ph.D. student in Literature at Duke University with areas of interest in black studies, migration studies, decoloniality, and technology. Particularly, their research focuses on enhancing diasporic understandings of blackness; technological fugitivity; technology and media’s capacity to be a performative methodological strategy within the notion of resistance. Their current research project examines the counter-surveillance tactics within the colonial state, and how black and brown folks assert and reclaim agency through subversion and underground, fugitive practices.
In addition to this, they are also interested in blackness, caste, colonialism, whiteness as it is manifested and entangled within the South Asian Diaspora, with an emphasis on the Indian Diaspora. Their sites of interest are Guyana, Trinidad, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States, and India.
They are a recipient of the Stuart Hall Archive Fellowship (2024). They are also a USP Scholar, a co-convener of the FHI Black Feminist Working Group as well as Digital Graveyards: Unearthing Palestine’s Archive.