Sasha Wells

Sasha C. Wells is a Graduate Research Assistant for iWitness: IPC Institute for Visual Journalism. She is a second year History Ph.D. student at Florida International University studying the social networks created by free Black and enslaved persons in the late 18th and early 19th century Bahamas. Her project probes questions about racial geographies, slave resistance, marronage, colonial ideas of sexuality and gender, and urban space. Sasha is originally from New Providence, The Bahamas. Sasha is currently working on a few projects: one that will be a digital archive and exhibit for runaway slave advertisements in The Bahamas; an oral history project about perspectives surrounding Bahamian independence, and a family history project. Sasha is also the Vice-President for the Department of History Graduate Student Association for the ‘24-’25 academic year.