Audrey Ashbrook graduated from Tufts University with distinction in 2024, where she studied International Relations (Globalization) and Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora Studies. At Tufts, Audrey received the Ted Shapiro Memorial Award and Summer Scholars grant to conduct archival research at the British Library on scientific colonialism during early Crown rule in India.
Since graduation, she has served as Associate Editor for the Fourth World Journal—a peer-reviewed academic publication which studies the ideas, knowledge, and conditions of the world’s more than 5,000 Fourth World (Indigenous) Nations. Audrey is primarily interested in histories of self-determination struggles within communities dispossessed by neocolonial development initiatives. She plans to further pursue this avenue in her coursework and dissertation at Columbia/LSE.
Following her studies, she intends to pursue a career in journalism and/or policy research. She looks forward to applying historical analysis to investigate and expose global human rights violations, as well as to create mechanisms for accountability within international institutions.
