Aliyah Dunn-Salahuddin

Aliyah Dunn-Salahuddin is performing artist, filmmaker, and current PhD candidate in the History Department at Stanford University. Prior to entering Stanford University, she earned both her BA and MA in history at San Francisco State University. She went on to become tenured faculty, and served as Department Chair of African American Studies at City College of San Francisco. Her current research analyzes the Black freedom struggle in San Francisco from the intersection of race, infrastructure, and environment with special focus on the Bayview-Hunters Point community. She is currently a Thomas D. Dee II Graduate Fellow with the Bill Lane Center for the American West (2025-2026) and a former ACLS/Mellon Dissertation Innovation Fellow (2024-2025).