Welcome!

My name, Chinyere [CHEEN-yair-ay] means "God gave" in the Igbo language. I am an Associate Professor of African American and Africana Studies at the University of Maryland-College Park, where I have been since 2021. Before that, I was an Associate Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University-Camden.

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I received my doctorate from UCLA and my MA from Harvard. ​​​​​​​​I write about how Black people around the world understand their interactions with racial and ethnic others. My first book, Boundaries of Love: Interracial Marriage and the Meaning of Race was published in 2019 with NYU Press.

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For PAIN (Project on African Immigrants in Nursing), I worked with a team of graduate students and undergraduates to recruit and conduct in-depth qualitative interviews with first- and second- generation African nursing students and registered nuraes. They also helped transcribe and code the interview data. One of the undergraduates, Tsion

 

I presented preliminary data from PAIN at the 

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I am currently writing about African immigrants registered nurses in the United States, growing up African in Chicago, and blackness in Korean dramas.

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I give talks and workshops about race, marriage, life as a Black academic, and anti-blackness in Korean media.​ I also have a podcast, "Dr. Chi’s Salon," in which I “sociologize” anything and everything.​