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
Farah Bakaari Dept of English african literature, novel theory, postcolonial studies, political theory, aesthetics and politics
Tadiwa Madenga Dept of Comparative Literature Dept of English African and Black diaspora literature, gender and sexuality, print culture, Festival and Carnival Studies
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
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
G. Ugo Nwokeji Dept of African American Studies Atlantic slave trade, historical demography, African history and political economy, oil and gas policy
Henry Washington Jr. Dept of African American Studies 19th and 20th century African American literature, Black intellectual history, black feminist, queer, and trans theories, black critical theory, aesthetics and visual culture, performance studies
Scott Saul Dept of English 20th and 21st century American literature, African American literature, cultural studies, drama, film
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
Ann Swidler Dept of Sociology religion, culture, Africa, AIDS, political sociology, theory, development, NGOs, public impact research/scholarship, community-engaged research / scholarship, research practice partnership, community-based research partnerships, social justice research
James Q. Davies Dept of Music 19th century music, political ecology, performance studies, pianism, vocal knowledge, medical anthropology, historical materialism
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
Bryan Wagner Dept of English community-engaged research / scholarship, research practice partnership, community-based research partnerships