Program: Communication and Rhetoric, Ph.D.
Areas of Research / Interest: Media Studies, Black Feminist Theory, Science and Technology Studies (STS)
Undergraduate Major: Communication, Visual and Media Studies, Brooklyn College, CUNY
Biography: isaiah a. hines is a poet and scholar originally from Vermont. Their research examines how contemporary media construct problems in relation to race, colonial language, and global power. Their dissertation focuses on Black conservatism, analyzing how it emerges within media systems as a contested problem of recognition, grievance, and repair. isaiah is the author of Anything with Spirit (Roof Books, 2025) and null landing (Slope Editions, 2022). Their debut poetry collection received the 19th Annual Slope Editions Book Prize and was a finalist for the 2023 Legacy Award in Poetry from the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation.