Francisca Afantchao Biakou

Research Interests: race, gender, work, social reproduction, historical sociology, black feminisms, quantitative methods

Francisca Afantchao Biakou is a PhD student in sociology and social policy, and a Presidential Scholar at Harvard University. Using theory, historical, and quantitative methods, she locates reproductive and domestic labor in larger social processes like racialization and nation-making. En route, she seeks to explicate the racial and gender logics underlying these forms of work. 

Fran’s research finds an intellectual home in black feminism(s) and in turn offers the movement historiographical provocation. 

Before graduate school, she was a predoctoral research assistant in the Industrial Relations Section at Princeton University. There she worked with labor economists on a number of projects related to race and labor market inequality. 

She is a proud graduate of Temple University, from which she earned her BA in sociology and economics.

Previous Degrees
BA in sociology and economics, Temple University, 2023