#  Kessie Alexandre 

 

 



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 email <kalexandre@fas.harvard.edu> 

 



 

Kessie Alexandre is an Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Washington, Seattle. Her research organizes around questions of risk and ethics; environmental racism; climate justice and the social implications of climate change adaptation; Black geographies and diaspora; and the politics and ethics of infrastructure. Her book project, *Floods and Fountains: Urban Water Governance and Black Spatial Futures*, is an ethnography of urban water insecurity told through mundane and spectacular forms of infrastructure breakdown and with a vast repertoire of Black environmental organizing struggles in Newark, NJ*.* This research has been supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the American Council for Learned Societies, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, and the Environmental Institute and Department of African American Studies at Princeton University. Kessie has published writing in *Geoforum* and *Current Anthropology.* She received her PhD in Anthropology with a graduate certificate in African American Studies from Princeton University in 2020. 

 

 

 





 

 

- ## Discipline
    
     [Anthropology](/discipline/anthropology)
- ## Fellowship
    
     [Postdoctoral](/fellowship/postdoctoral)
- ## Fellowship Year
    
     [2022 - 2023](/fellowship-year/2022-2023)
- ## Role
    
     [Fellows](/role/fellow)