Dr. Bryce Henson is an associate professor in the Department of Communication & Journalism and associate faculty in the Africana Studies Program at Texas A&M University. His research and teaching interests include African Diaspora studies, cultural studies, global Black intellectual traditions, urban studies, marronage & aquilombamento, media studies, popular culture, qualitative methods, and critical ethnography. He is the author of Emergent Quilombos: Black Life and Hip-Hop in Brazil (University of Texas Press, 2023). The book won the following awards: the 2024 National Communication Association (NCA) Critical/Cultural Studies Division Book of the Year Award, the 2024 NCA Ethnography Division Best Book Award, and the 2024 NCA International & Intercultural Division Best Book Award. In addition, the book received honorable mention for the 2024 Roberto Reis First Book Prize Award from the Brazilian Studies Association. Dr. Henson is also a co-editor of Spaces of New Colonialism: Reading Schools, Museums, and Cities in the Tumult of Globalization (Peter Lang, 2020). His journal articles and book chapters are published across outlets in communication, cultural studies, Black studies, Latin American studies, and anthropology.