Natassja B. Gunasena holds a Ph.D in African and African Diaspora Studies from the University of Texas at Austin.  Her research explores Black and Asian women's lived experiences of race, gender, and sexuality through an interdisciplinary, transnational lens. At Trinity, she teaches courses on gender and militarism, Black Atlantic gender and sexuality, and diasporic, global south lives. Her pedagogy highlights discussion-based learning, interdisciplinarity, and uses art, film, and narrative to interrogate the boundaries of traditional epistemological frames. She is Trinity's inaugural Eric Estes '91 Research Fellow and is currently at work on her manuscript, Cobra Women: Reworking South Asian Femininity in the African Diaspora