{"id":10707,"date":"2017-09-20T12:29:19","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T16:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/?page_id=10707"},"modified":"2026-09-08T16:53:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T20:53:07","slug":"emily-hersey","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/emily-hersey\/","title":{"rendered":"Emily Hersey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Emily Hersey\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/Emily-Hersey-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10708\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/Emily-Hersey-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/Emily-Hersey-160x120.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/Emily-Hersey-240x180.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/Emily-Hersey-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/Emily-Hersey-360x270.jpg 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/Emily-Hersey-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/Emily-Hersey.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Emily Hersey, a 2016 graduate of Carleton\u2019s African Studies and History program, is currently studying a Master of Arts in Diversity Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.&nbsp; Emily Hersey has won a South African Research Chair Initiative Scholarship funded by the Department of Science and Technology and the National Research Foundation of South Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Under the supervision of the South African National Research Chair in Critical Diversity Studies, Dr. Melissa Steyn, Emily will be carrying out research on South African hip hop music and its significance to youth culture. The goal of the project is to recognize the significance of hip hop to the creation of livelihoods for Black South Africans and the music\u2019s unifying force over South Africa\u2019s diverse society in its continuing efforts to support a future of social equality and social justice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emily Hersey, a 2016 graduate of Carleton\u2019s African Studies and History program, is currently studying a Master of Arts in Diversity Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.&nbsp; Emily Hersey has won a South African Research Chair Initiative Scholarship funded by the Department of Science and Technology and the National Research [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cu_dining_location_slug":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_page_type":[],"class_list":["post-10707","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10707"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10710,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10707\/revisions\/10710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_page_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_page_type?post=10707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}