Julie Aromi

Julie Aromi's interdisciplinary work centers around archives, power, and race, and her dissertation is a look at the 1991 riot in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, as it exists in the archives of New York City. She studies the ways that social power influences the process of creating historical narratives out of events of race and violence, and the role of the archive in infusing bias and notable silences into the historical record. Her dissertation committee includes Khadijah Costley White (co-chair), Britt S. Paris (co-chair), Regina Marchi, and Chenjerai Kumanyika. 

Aromi also serves as a fellowship advisor and peer mentor at GradFund. She is a 2022-23 Henry J. Raimondo Legislative Fellow at the Eagleton Institute of Politics, a 2022-23 fellow in the PreDoctoral Leadership Development Academy program, and a 2022-23 graduate mentor in the Douglass College Mentoring for Social Justice Project. Previously, she has been a 2021-22 Center for Cultural Analysis graduate fellow, served as 2019-20 president of the SC&I Doctoral Student Association, and taught in both the master of information program and undergraduate IT and Informatics major.

B.A., Sociology and African American Studies, Princeton University
Master of Library and Information Science, Queens College, CUNY
Master of Art, History, Queens College, CUNY