Ula Y. Taylor Dept of African American Studies 20th century African American history, African American women's history, Black feminist theory, black nationalism
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
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
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
Tadiwa Madenga Dept of Comparative Literature Dept of English African and Black diaspora literature, gender and sexuality, print culture, Festival and Carnival Studies
Leigh Raiford Dept of African American Studies social movements, visual culture, memory, photography, African American history and culture
Dora Silva Santana Dept of Gender and Women's Studies Black trans studies, Black queer and trans feminist theory, global south epistemologies, Black poets, visual culture - media - and technology
Stephen Small Dept of African American Studies public history, African diaspora in Europe, British imperialism, community-engaged research/scholarship
Nikki Jones Dept of African American Studies African American communities, policing, racial/gender disparities and the criminal justice system, violence and violence interventions
Patrice D. Douglass Dept of Gender and Women's Studies Black feminist theory, Afro-pessimism, feminist philosophy, gender and sexual violence, feminist legal theory, legal theory, political philosophy, Black political thought
Courtney Desiree Morris Dept of Gender and Women's Studies Black women's social movement, state violence and authoritarianism, racial formations in Latin American, racial formations in the Caribbean, racial formations in the U.S., feminist and queer theory, environmental ethics, Black visual culture and aestetics
G. Ugo Nwokeji Dept of African American Studies Atlantic slave trade, historical demography, African history and political economy, oil and gas policy
Ianna Hawkins Owen Dept of Gender and Women's Studies African American studies, African diaspora, queer studies
Darian Longmire Dept of Art Practice mixed media, printmaking, Abstraction, Black studies, Black contemporary art
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
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
Jovan Scott Lewis Dept of Geography Jamaica and the USA, constructions and inffrastructures of poverty, inequality, race (blackness), economy, reparations
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
Fumi Okiji Dept of Rhetoric Black study, Frankfurt School Critical Theory, sound and music studies, aesthetics