West Foster ('24) Awarded Kathryn Ann Huggins Prize for Most Outstanding Thesis

The Department of Anthropology at Harvard University is pleased to share that senior West Foster (joint concentration in Social Anthropology and African American Studies with a secondary in Ethnicity, Migration, Rights, and a language citation in Spanish) has been awarded the Kathryn Ann Huggins Prize for most outstanding thesis related to African American life, history, or culture.

West shares with us:

By writing this thesis, I sought to craft a project that captures feelings of unfamiliarity and home as experienced by Black Americans who initiate into the spiritual traditions of Ìṣẹ̀ṣe and Lukumí. I am thankful for the trust of my interlocutors and the support of my good friends and family in this process. I am also grateful for the example set by my ancestors whose resilience and ingenuity I seek to embody where I go.

Our most sincere congratulations to West on this outstanding achievement.