Graduate Students Marlene Gaynair Program: History Research Interests: Social, Cultural and Digital Histories of the Modern Black Atlantic (particularly North America and the Caribbean) Dissertation Project: Islands in the North: (Re)Creating Jamaican Identities & Cultures in Urban North America, 1950s-1990s https://history.rutgers.edu/people/graduate-students/grad-student/994-gaynair-marlene https://islandsinthenorth.com