William White Dept of Anthropology historical archaeology, African American archaeology, historic preservation, heritage conservation, community based participatory research
Ula Y. Taylor Dept of African American Studies 20th century African American history, African American women's history, Black feminist theory, black nationalism
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
Kent Lightfoot Dept of Anthropology California archaeology, coastal hunter-gatherers, North American archaeology, archaeology of colonialism, indigenous landscape management
Nikki Jones Dept of African American Studies African American communities, policing, racial/gender disparities and the criminal justice system, violence and violence interventions
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
Desmond Jagmohan Dept of Political Science history of political thought, American political thought, African American political thought, race and American political development
Micah Khater Dept of African American Studies African American history, Black feminist theory, carceral studies, disability studies, racial formation in Arabic-speaking communities
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
Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers Dept of History slavery, African-American History, Women's History, Women and the Law, Slavery and the Law
Nicole Holliday Dept of Linguistics sociolinguistics, phonetics, sociophonetics, issues of language and identity, language and media, African American English
Henry Washington Jr. Dept of African American Studies 19th and 20th century African American literature, black intellectual histories, black feminist, queer, and trans theories, black critical theory, aesthetics and visual culture, performance studies
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
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
Grace Erny Dept of Ancient Greek & Roman Studies archaeology, archaeology and history of Greece and the Aegean, inequality in the ancient world, archaeology survey and the rural Mediterranean, analysis of archaeological ceramics, archaeological ethics, public archaeology
Charlotte Williams Dept of Anthropology cultural heritage, history of archaeology, archaeological labor, museums and collections, American imperialism, colonialism, territory and landscape, cultural property law, ownership, dispossession, material culture, memory, archives, Central and South America
G. Ugo Nwokeji Dept of African American Studies Atlantic slave trade, historical demography, African history and political economy, oil and gas policy
Hertha D. Sweet Wong Dept of English American literature, Native American literature, autobiography, ethnic American literature
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