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Amani

Berkeley Public Health

health inequities, race/ethnicity, socioeconomic position, stress and health, place and health, social determinants of health, cardiometabolic risk, birth outcomes

Lisa

School of Journalism

incarceration, race, Haiti, imprisonment, prisons and policing, prisons, mental illness, mental health, juvenile delinquency

Stephen

Dept of English

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

Travis

Travis J. Bristol

Berkeley School of Education

race and gender, urban schooling, organizational contexts of teachers' work, educational equity, African American students in schools

Linda

School of Social Welfare

child welfare, poverty

Brandi

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

Chiyuma

Chiyuma Elliott

Dept of African American Studies

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

Denise

Denise Herd

Berkeley Public Health

public health, epidemiology, specialty area in multicultural health, behaviorial science, social movements, race and ethnicity, medical anthropology, American popular culture

Desmond

Desmond Jagmohan

Dept of Political Science

history of political thought, American political thought, African American political thought, race and American political development

Nikki

Nikki Jones

Dept of African American Studies

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

Jabari

Berkeley School of Education

language, culture, society, literacy, literacy learning of urban youth, African American students in schools, writing development, effective teaching, learning strategies in multicultural urban schools and communities

Waldo

Dept of History

African American History ; Modern American Culture

Sam

Dept of African American Studies

rights and social justice in African education

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

Tianna

Dept of African American Studies

Dept of Sociology

racial ideology, politics, globalization, Latin America

Dylan

Dylan Penningroth

Dept of History

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

Daniel

Daniel Perlstein

Berkeley School of Education

schooling, diversity, democracy, urban education, teachers unions, inequality education

john

john powell

Dept of African American Studies

Dept of Ethnic Studies

Civil rights and civil liberties, structural racialization, racial justice and regionalism, concentrated poverty and urban sprawl, opportunity based housing, voting rights, affirmative action in the United States, South Africa and Brazil, racial and ethnic identity, spirituality and social justice, and the needs of citizens in a democratic society

Leigh

Dept of African American Studies

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

Roberts

T. Carlis Roberts

performance studies, interracial musical collaboration, music of enslaved Africans in the U.S. and Caribbean, intercultural percussion performance, women's drumming communities, diaspora connection in African American and Afro-Caribbean folkloric traditions, queer and trans popular music making, technology and politics of spiritual musical practice

Scott

Scott Saul

Dept of English

English, African American studies, 20th century American literature and culture, performance studies, jazz studies, histories of the avante-garde

Darieck

Darieck B. Scott

Dept of African American Studies

Janelle

Berkeley School of Education

Dept of African American Studies

educational policy, charter schools, politics of education, race and education, school choice, desegregation, philanthropy and education, advocacy

Lok

Lok Siu

Dept of Ethnic Studies

diaspora, transnationalism, migration, cultural citizenship, un/belonging, racial and ethnic and gender formation, Chinese diaspora, Asians in the Americas, cultural politics of food, ethnography

Shannon

Dept of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies

critical race theory, performance theory, American studies, U.S. histories of popular performance, U.S. urban development, globalization studies