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Ayesha S. Mahmud

Dept of Demography

Infectious disease dynamics, disease ecology, mathematical models, Asia, Africa, Central America, climate change

Bruce S. Hall

Dept of History

Africa

Rauri C.K. Bowie

Dept of Integrative Biology

ornithology, Africa, evolutionary biology

Ula Y. Taylor

Dept of African American Studies

20th century African American history, African American women's history, Black feminist theory, black nationalism

Zamansele Nsele

Dept of History of Art

modern & contemporary African diaspora visual art, modern & contemporary African visual art, Black art, Black & African feminisms, critical theories of Blackness, African modernism, theories of nostalgia and melancholia, visual activism

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Ianna Hawkins Owen

Dept of Gender and Women's Studies

African American studies, African diaspora, queer studies

Wayne M. Getz

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

Africa, disease ecology, wildlife conservation, resource management

Kathleen Donegan

Dept of English

Colonial America, early America, Native America, early Caribbean

G. Ugo Nwokeji

Dept of African American Studies

Atlantic slave trade, historical demography, African history and political economy, oil and gas policy

Laurie Wilkie

Dept of Anthropology

anthropology, historical archaeology, oral history, material culture and ethnic identity, family and gender relations, North America, Northern California, Caribbean, Bahamas, African consumerism, creolization, multi-ethnic community

Jennifer Johnson-Hanks

Dept of Demography

Dept of Sociology

culture, population, social action, intentions, Africa, gender, fertility, marriage

Stephen Small

Dept of African American Studies

public history, African diaspora in Europe, British imperialism, community-engaged research/scholarship

Leigh Raiford

Dept of African American Studies

social movements, visual culture, memory, photography, African American history and culture

Waldo Martin

Dept of History

African American history, modern American culture

Hannah Sande

Dept of Linguistics

phonology, phonological processes, morphology, Kru languages, West Africa, tone and prosody

Estelle Tarica

Dept of Spanish and Portuguese

Latin America, Jewish Latin America, Andes, Mexico, Bolivia, Peru, Argentina, Guatemala, Holocaust, genocide, race, nationalism, Spanish, mestizaje, indigeneity, Quechua

Aila Matanock

Dept of Political Science

post-conflict elections, policing, peace processes, civil conflict, foreign intervention, armed actor governance, armed actor social support, counterinsurgency, survey experiments, mixed-method research design, Central America, Colombia, Solomon Islands, West Africa

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Karl Britto

Dept of Comparative Literature

Dept of French

Africa, cultural studies, the Caribbean, literature, francophone literature, colonial and postcolonial literature, Vietnam, gender and identity

Martha Wilfahrt

Dept of Political Science

African politics, political economy of development, redistributive politics

Dylan Penningroth

Dept of History

School of Law

African American history, U.S. socio-legal history

Chiyuma Elliott

Dept of African American Studies

poetry and poetics, African American literature, intellectual history - 1920s to the present, Black geography/cultural geography

Tianna Paschel

Dept of African American Studies

Dept of Sociology

racial ideology, politics, globalization, Latin America

Nikki Jones

Dept of African American Studies

African American communities, policing, racial/gender disparities and the criminal justice system, violence and violence interventions

Stephen Best

Dept of English

film, English literature, African American literature, literary culture, legal culture

Micah Khater

Dept of African American Studies

African American history, Black feminist theory, carceral studies, disability studies, racial formation in Arabic-speaking communities

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