Miriam Emefa Dzah (2024)

Miriam Emefa Dzah is a PhD student in the Department of Sociology funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). Miriam holds an MPhil in Sociology of Marginality and Exclusion and a BA in Sociology and Political Science from the University of Cambridge.

Her research looks at the relationship between historical and contemporary dynamics of diasporic travel to Ghana and racial capitalism.

Miriam is a research assistant in the project ‘Kente and Kinship: Mapping the Engagement of Ghanaian Poets with African Descendants of Slavery in the United States through Poetry’ based at Kindred Laboratories and Cambridge Digital Humanities.

Miriam is passionate about blurring the lines between sociological knowledge production and creative expression through writing and visual art. She co-edits Pure Wata Zine, an Accra-based magazine.

Supervisor

Dr Ali Meghji

Awards

• Polity Prize for the best overall mark for the MPhil in Sociology (2024)
• New York Public Library Short-term Research Fellowship, Schomburg Centre for Research in Black Culture (2024)
• ESRC 1+3 Doctoral Training Partnership (2023)DAAD MPhil Scholarship (2023)
• Heinrich Böll Foundation BA Scholarship
• Winifred Georgina Holgate Pollard Memorial Prize for final exams (2022)
• AstraZeneca Research Day Prize, Lucy Cavendish College (2022)