Today’s conversation is with Maya Doig-Acuña, doctoral candidate in the Department of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. Her work is invested in history and memory studies, with a particular focus on Afro-Latinx culture and identity that emphasizes diasporic movement and structures of kinship. To that end, she is currently completing her doctoral dissertation under the title We are Her Beloved Descendants: Alternate Archives of Afro-Panamanian Memory, Diaspora, and Kinship. In this conversation, we discuss the expansive reach of Black Studies, how Black study informs multidisciplinary approaches to the past, and how Black Studies sensibilities shape critical discourse around memory studies and historical research.