Graduate Student
Email: doakes@ufl.edu
Education
- PhD., Anthropology, University of Florida, In Progress
- M.A., Sustainable Development Practice, University of Florida, 2024
- M.A., Interpreting and Translation, University of Pretoria, 2015
- B.S., Political Science and French, University of Kwa-Zulu Natal
Subfield
Chair
Research Interests
My research seeks to understand local perceptions of and responses to Spain-Africa Strategy Document (2025-2028) relating to irregular migration by focusing on the lived experiences of social pressure among non-migrants in the Langue de Barbarie, Senegal. In 2024, record numbers of Senegalese and West African irregular migrants have arrived in the Canary Islands. Hundreds have lost their lives in these perilous journeys on traditional boats lead by young fishermen from the Senegalese Coastline to the Canary Islands (an estimated 963 miles).
Selected Publications
“La Traduction et l’interprétation comme lieu idéal de l’interculturalité ? Université MUST “Le traducteur et son texte : Relations dialectiques, difficultés linguistiques et contexte socioculturel” (2013)
Grants, Fellowships, and Awards
Department of Anthropology (UF) – Conference funding (Fall 2025)
Center for African Studies (UF) – Conference funding (Fall 2025)
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Graduate Student Travel Award (Summer 2025)
Center for African Studies Summer Pre-dissertation Research Award (Summer 2025)
Center for European Studies (CES) Graduate Student Travel Award (Summer 2025)
Elizabeth Eddy Summer New Graduate Student Research Award (Summer 2025)
First prize in fieldwork poster presentation (2024)
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellow – Arabic language (2025-2025)
Master in Sustainable Development Practice (MDP, UF) – (Summer 2023)
Center for African Studies – Fieldwork Grant, (Summer 2023)
Sahel Research Group – Capstone Project Grant, (Summer 2023)