Augustus Nathaniel Reid
Thesis title: Epistolary Wanders through the (i)-llusion of (Non): A (Blac-Male)-Ethnography (BME) and Blac-oetic Resistance to the Pervasive Colonial Violence
Background
An aspiring Holistic therapist, Augustus is a 3rd year PhD research student in counselling studies, and an advisory excutive board member of the biannual conference for the 'Collegium of African American Research (CAAR)'. His research focuses on the Black male experience, and he is especially interested in challenging negative (his)torical epistemologies related to how Black men are perceived and received within society, including within the field of Counselling and Psychotherapy.
More especially, Augustus is keen on exploring new ways of thought for Black men’s ontological positionality, or how and why they negotiate embodiment within therapeutic spaces and the wider Euromodern coloniality. He undertakes such research to actively contribute to the healing and liberation of the collective Black diaspora through Black male thought, consciousness, the embodiment of love for self, and to imbue the enactment of love for others.
Qualifications
Psychology and Counselling BSc (Hon) - 2021
Responsibilities & affiliations
Graduate member; British Psychological society
Postgraduate teaching
Autoethnographic Research Methods in the Social Sciences - Tutor
Research summary
Research focus:
- Black male Culture
- The impact of colonial violence
- Black male epistemologies and ontologies
- The Socio-poetics and performative aesthetic movement of Blackness
- Liberation and healing through poetry/Blackoetry, storytelling and visual art
- Using Epistoplary to hold the middle-of-being
Current research interests
-Black Existentialism -Africana studies -Black performative aesthetics -Culture -Equality and equity -Rasta Revolutionary music -Writing through and with Black and indigenous scholars -Black Emancipatory Action Research (BEAR), Afro-emancipatory research.Conference details
- 14th Biannual Collegium of African American Research (CAAR)
Title/Theme: Knowledges in Motion: Black Travels, Belonging, and Transformations
Date: March 2025,
Location: Berlin, Germany
- 12th International Conference for Autoethnography
Title/Theme: Breathing Spaces
Date: July 2025,
Location: Bristol, United Kingdom
- UWI, The Harriet Tubmna Institute & York University, Toronto, Canada
Title/Theme: Reflections on Repair, Responsibility, Resistance and Reform: New Pathways,
Date: October 2025,
Location: Kingston, Jamaica
Organiser
- Collegium of African American Research (CAAR) & Humboldt University
- International Conference for Autoethnography
- University of West Indies, The Harriet Tubman institute & York University, Toronto, Canada
Papers delivered
- Resisting the resistance using Black existentialist thought: A poetic and narrative inquiry
- Black(male)ethnography - Black Wanders (in) and (out) of 'Wandering Black'
- Blac-male-ethnography; Resisting the resistance using Blac-existentialist philosophy with Rasta revolutionary consciuosness
- 'Wandering Blac' – A Blac(male)ethnographic Blac(k)oetry writing in-through a Wander