Aliyah Dunn-Salahuddin

Aliyah Dunn-Salahuddin is a PhD candidate of history at Stanford University. Prior to entering Stanford University, she earned both her B.A. and M.A. in American History at San Francisco State University. She went on to become tenured faculty at City College of San Francisco (CCSF) where she taught African American and United States History, and served as Department Chair of African and African American Studies. Her current research interests are focused on the Black freedom struggle in Northern California and the Pacific Northwest with specific focus on the intersection of racial, structural, and environmental inequality in San Francisco's Bayview Hunters Point. She is a former a 2024 ACLS/Mellon Dissertation Innovation Fellow awarded for her fusion of dance performance art, film, and history. She was also the 2025-2026, Graduate Fellow in Stanford University's Bill Lane Center for the American West.