Affiliate Faculty

  • Crystal S. Anderson

    Crystal S. Anderson

    Instructor

    Media studies, popular culture, popular music, visual culture, literature and audience and fan reception

  • Charles Chavis

    Charles Chavis

    Assistant Professor

  • Rose M Cherubin

    Rose M Cherubin

    Associate Professor

    Ancient philosophy, metaphysics, epistemology, African American philosophy

  • Keith Clark

    Keith Clark

    Distinguished University Professor

    20th-Century African American Literature; African American Literary Masculinity Studies; Black LGBTQ+ Literature; African American Drama; Major Authors: James Baldwin, Ernest J. Gaines, Ann Petry

  • Kevin A Clark

    Kevin A Clark

    Professor

    Diversity in educational media, broadening participation in STEM, Learning Technologies

  • David Powers Corwin

    David Powers Corwin

    Assistant Professor

    LGBTQ+ Studies; friendship studies; television studies; trauma rhetoric; Appalachian Studies; gender and sexuality in higher education

  • Spencer Crew

    Spencer Crew

    Robinson Professor

  • Rutledge M Dennis

    Rutledge M Dennis

    Professor

    Sociology of ideas, theoretical sociology, political sociology, race and ethnic studies, urban communities, the sociology of W.E.B. Du Bois

  • Cynthia Fuchs

    Cynthia Fuchs

    Associate Professor

    Antiracist everything, documentary and fiction film, television, social media, war media, sports media, Black media, LGBTQ+ media, horror, action, and science fiction movies and TV, gender and sexuality.

  • Yevette Richards Jordan

    Yevette Richards Jordan

    Associate Professor

    African American history, women's history, history of lynching, labor history, Pan-Africanism

  • Wendi N. Manuel-Scott

    Wendi N. Manuel-Scott

    Professor

    Race, gender, the African American experience, and the history of black women in the Atlantic World

  • Tony Roshan Samara

    Tony Roshan Samara

    Affiliate Faculty

    race, ethnicity and nationalism, globalization, urban studies and international development and security.

  • Suzanne E. Smith

    Suzanne E. Smith

    Professor

    African American, 20th century Cultural History, History of Death in America, American Popular Music, African American Religious History

  • Stefan Wheelock

    Stefan Wheelock

    Associate Professor

    late eighteenth century/early nineteenth century black antislavery writing with a particular emphasis on slave narrative autobiography, early black polemic, and their contributions to Atlantic political and intellectual currencies