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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

Donna Jones

Dept of English

critical theory, English, modernism, literature and philosophy, literature of the Americas, literature of the African Diaspora, postcolonial literature and theory, narrative and historiography

Ula Y. Taylor

Dept of African American Studies

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

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Elizabeth Abel

Dept of English

feminist theory, psychoanalysis, British and American Modernism, Virginia Woolf, race and gender

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Ianna Hawkins Owen

Dept of Gender and Women's Studies

African American studies, African diaspora, queer studies

Waldo Martin

Dept of History

African American history, modern American culture

Leigh Raiford

Dept of African American Studies

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

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

Nikki Jones

Dept of African American Studies

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

Catherine Flynn

Dept of English

modernism, Irish, British, comparative literature, critical theory, Avant-Gardes, James Joyce, Flann O'Brien

Micah Khater

Dept of African American Studies

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

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

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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

Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers

Dept of History

slavery, African-American History, Women's History, Women and the Law, Slavery and the Law

Desmond Jagmohan

Dept of Political Science

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

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

Scott Saul

Dept of English

20th and 21st century American literature, African American literature, cultural studies, drama, film

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

William White

Dept of Anthropology

historical archaeology, African American archaeology, historic preservation, heritage conservation, community based participatory research

Al-An deSouza

Dept of Art Practice

photography, contemporary art, Art Pedagogy, performance, postcolonial studies, gender, queer, trans studies, contemporary African Art, South Asian Art, art of the Global South, global modernisms

Martha Wilfahrt

Dept of Political Science

African politics, political economy of development, redistributive politics

Tadiwa Madenga

Dept of Comparative Literature

Dept of English

African and Black diaspora literature, gender and sexuality, print culture, Festival and Carnival Studies

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