Core Faculty

  • LaNitra M Berger

    LaNitra M Berger

    Director

    Associate Professor

    Art of the African Diaspora, African-American art history, South African modern art, Intersections of the African and Jewish Diasporas, lynching photography, art and social activism, African and African American Studies, social justice and international education, women artists, racial injustice and public monuments and memorials

  • RaShall Brackney

    RaShall Brackney

    Distinguished Visiting Professor of Practice

  • Benedict Carton

    Benedict Carton

    Associate Professor

    Africa, South Africa, transnational race, imperialism, cultural and oral history

  • Tianna L. Cobb

    Tianna L. Cobb

    Postdoctoral R & T Fellow

    Health Communication, Organizational Communication, Mental Health, Gender and Race, Black Studies

  • Akila-Ka Ma'at (Jennifer R. Warren)

    Akila-Ka Ma'at (Jennifer R. Warren)

    Assistant Professor

    Black Women, Racism, Adaptive Coping, Resilience, Maternal Health, Infectious Disease, Health Determinants, Digital Health, Health Communication, Translational Research, Critical Methodologies, Community-Based Participatory Research