Ziyen Curtis
Credentials: Ed-GRS Fellow
Ziyen Curtis is a proud first-generation college/graduate student from Scranton, Pennsylvania. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in History, a Bachelor of Science in Global and International Studies with a specification in Culture and Identity, a minor in Women’s studies, a minor in Gender and Sexuality studies, and a certificate in Diversity studies from The Pennsylvania State University.
Ziyen’s research interests include the consequences of racially exclusive history curricula in the U.S., social studies curricula, historiography of Black educators curriculum orientations and historical valuations of Black history.
Awards and Honors
UW-Madison School of Education Graduate Research Scholar (Ed-GRS) Fellow, 2024-25
UW-Madison School of Letters and Science’s Community of Graduate Research Scholars (CGRS) Fellow, 2025-26
Research
Founding member of the SoulFolk Collective, the first ever research lab in the department of African American Studies at UW-Madison.
Co-authored book chapter abstract accepted for future publication in the book “Long Road to Parity: African American Education.”