Undergraduate Departmental Representatives
Undergraduate departmental representatives serve as a resource and representative for fellow majors and minors and potential majors and minors, and bring student concerns and/or ideas to the program faculty. They also provide feedback to the program chair and faculty regarding scheduling problems and course offerings, and help organize events for majors, minors and other interested students.
2024-25 UDRs
Noa Emi is a sophmore triple majoring in English/AAAS/WGS, with minors in LACLS/History/SQS. In and beyond the university, she is interested in the open fields of black study and aesthetics, experimental performance (poetry, music, art, film, dance), and literary criticism and theory. Her academic and artistic work is concerned with the total deconfiguration and disorderment of language, ethics/politics, and individuality. With her current project, “Chronic Ambiguity,” she explores the intricacies of fugitive sound and gnostic touch as a kind of sensory underlife against and in apposition to colonial brutality. In her free time, Noa is often occupied with reading, writing, and/or listening to music, drinking tea, getting lost, and/or talking with friends about anything and everything under the sun. If you have any questions about anything please don’t hesitate to reach out!
I'm a junior double-majoring in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies and Music, but is currently in the process of creating an music-based Independent Interdisciplinary Major based on African-American Music. Outside of academics, Brandie is the publicity manager for Brandeis VoiceMale, a member of the GenOne Board, and an MLK Fellow. As an LACLS UDR, Brandie hopes to attract more people to this flexible yet enriching major and garner more academic interest in race and racism within the Latinx Diaspora. Contact Brandie if you want to know more about Latino non-profits in the Greater Boston area, doing sociology research at Brandeis, queer Latin music, or any of the LACLS requirements.
Hello! My name is Emily Pahuamba and I am a sophomore double majoring in LACLS and Linguistics alongside a minor in Studio Art. On campus I am the co-president of the Brandeis Latinx Student Organization (BLSO) and a community advisor (CA). I am interested in doing research on Latin American indigenous communities and their diaspora. In the future, I plan to help with language reclamation initiatives.