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Lisa Armstrong

School of Journalism

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

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Dept of English

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

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Travis J. Bristol

School of Education

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

Linda Burton

School of Social Welfare

child welfare, poverty

Brandi Catanese

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 Elliott

Chiyuma Elliott

Dept of African American Studies

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

Denise Herd

Denise Herd

School of Public Health

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

Desmond Jagmohan

Desmond Jagmohan

Dept of Political Science

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

Nikki Jones Head Shot

Nikki Jones

Dept of African American Studies

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

Dept of African American Studies

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

Dept of Ethnic Studies

relational race studies, literatures of Asian Americans and Latinxs

Jabari Mahiri

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 E. Martin

Dept of History

African American History ; Modern American Culture

Sam A. Mchombo

Dept of African American Studies

rights and social justice in African education

Amani Nuru-Jeter

Amani Nuru-Jeter

School of Public Health

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

Otter photo

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 Paschel

Dept of African American Studies

Dept of Sociology

racial ideology, politics, globalization, Latin America

Dylan Penningroth

Dylan Penningroth

Dept of History

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

Daniel Perlstein

Daniel Perlstein

School of Education

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

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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

Dept of African American Studies

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

Scott Saul

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 Scott

Dept of African American Studies

Janelle Scott

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 Siu

Lok Siu

Dept of Ethnic Studies

diaspora, transnational migration, un/belonging and citizenship, racial/ethnic/gender formation, food, ethnography, Chinese diaspora, hemispheric Asian American studies