Brandi Wilkins Catanese Dept of African American Studies Dept of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies critical race theory, African American theater, non-traditional casting, racial performativity, gender studies, sexuality studies, American popular culture
Ula Y. Taylor Dept of African American Studies 20th century African American history, African American women's history, Black feminist theory, black nationalism
Philip Gotanda Dept of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies theater, Playwriting, Indie Film, New Music Opera, Asian American, Japanese American
Ianna Hawkins Owen Dept of Gender and Women's Studies African American studies, African diaspora, queer studies
Leigh Raiford Dept of African American Studies social movements, visual culture, memory, photography, African American history and culture
Micah Khater Dept of African American Studies African American history, Black feminist theory, carceral studies, disability studies, racial formation in Arabic-speaking communities
Chiyuma Elliott Dept of African American Studies poetry and poetics, African American literature, intellectual history - 1920s to the present, Black geography/cultural geography
Nikki Jones Dept of African American Studies African American communities, policing, racial/gender disparities and the criminal justice system, violence and violence interventions
Desmond Jagmohan Dept of Political Science history of political thought, American political thought, African American political thought, race and American political development
Travis J. Bristol Dept of African American Studies School of Education race and gender, urban schooling, organizational contexts of teachers' work, educational equity, African American students in schools
Stephen Best Dept of English film, English literature, African American literature, literary culture, legal culture
Scott Saul Dept of English 20th and 21st century American literature, African American literature, cultural studies, drama, film
Angela Marino Dept of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies Latin American Studies, performance studies, Venezuela, Chicanx Latinx studies, Chicano Latino theater, political cultures, Populism, Festival and Carnival Studies, democracy, Latin America
Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers Dept of History slavery, African-American History, Women's History, Women and the Law, Slavery and the Law
Henry Washington Jr. Dept of African American Studies 19th and 20th century African American literature, Black intellectual history, Black feminist theory, Black trans theory, Black visual culture and aestetics, performance theory
Samuel Otter Dept of English English, 19th century American literature, 17th and 18th century American literature, African American literature, Herman Melville, race in American culture, literature and history, discourse and ideology, word and image studies, close reading
William White Dept of Anthropology historical archaeology, African American archaeology, historic preservation, heritage conservation, community based participatory research
Timmia Hearn DeRoy Dept of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies anti-colonial theatre practice, Caribbean theatre, social justice, disability justice, practice as research
Jeffrey Knapp Dept of English English literature, Shakespeare, English renaissance, Spenser, drama, theater, American film history, film theory and production, critical theory, imperialism, nationalism, mass entertainment, authorship
Lisa Wymore Dept of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies dance, choreography, Multi-Media Performance, Dance Theater
G. Ugo Nwokeji Dept of African American Studies Atlantic slave trade, historical demography, African history and political economy, oil and gas policy
Stephen Small Dept of African American Studies public history, African diaspora in Europe, British imperialism, community-engaged research/scholarship
Shannon Jackson Dept of History of Art Dept of Rhetoric Dept of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies rhetoric, performance studies, American studies, 20th century art movements and critical theory, local culture and intercultural citizenship in turn-of-the-century United States, history and theory of theatre and performance art