Aleah N. Ranjitsingh, Ph.D. is a Black, Dougla, Caribbean woman from Trinidad and Tobago. She is an Assistant Professor in the Africana Studies Department and Caribbean Studies Program at Brooklyn College,  City University of New York (CUNY).  She received her Ph.D. in the field of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies from the Institute for Gender and Development Studies (IGDS), University of the West Indies, St. Augustine.

Her research focuses on the Caribbean and the Caribbean diaspora, and her areas of interest include identity and identity formation, gender and ethnic identities, mixedness, and the processes of racialization at “home” in the Caribbean and in the diaspora.

She has published in the Journal for Intercultural Studies, the Caribbean Journal of International Relations and Diplomacy, and the Caribbean Review of Gender Studies. She is the co-author of Dougla in the 21^st Century: Adding to the Mix, a study of race and the mixed race Dougla identity in the Caribbean and the Caribbean diaspora, which was published by the University of Mississippi Press in June 2021.

Dr. Ranjitsingh is the recipient of a CUNY Black, Race and Ethnic Studies Initiative (BRESI) grant. The funded project – Becoming Black: Afro-Caribbean and/in ‘Black America,’ is an oral history project which centers Afro-Caribbean immigrants in New York City, and the ways that these immigrants, now understood as Black immigrants, re/construct identity as Black and/or African American, through the meaning-making and double process of “coming simultaneously into ‘America’ and into ‘Black America’” (Kasinitz, 1992, 32).

Her current project, an edited book collection entitled The Asian Caribbean in the Caribbean Diaspora. Essays on Migration, Identity, and Literary and Cultural Representations focuses on historical and contemporary issues, migration narratives, diasporic identity formations, and literary and cultural representations of Caribbean immigrants of Asian descent in the Caribbean diaspora, but not exclusively in the global north.