All Faculty
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Crystal S. Anderson
Instructor
Media studies, popular culture, popular music, visual culture, literature and audience and fan reception
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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
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RaShall Brackney
Distinguished Visiting Professor of Practice
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Charles Chavis
Assistant Professor
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Rose M Cherubin
Associate Professor
Ancient philosophy, metaphysics, epistemology, African American philosophy
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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
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Kevin A Clark
Professor
Diversity in educational media, broadening participation in STEM, Learning Technologies
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David Powers Corwin
Assistant Professor
LGBTQ+ Studies; friendship studies; television studies; trauma rhetoric; Appalachian Studies; gender and sexuality in higher education
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Spencer Crew
Robinson Professor
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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
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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.
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Yevette Richards Jordan
Associate Professor
African American history, women's history, history of lynching, labor history, Pan-Africanism
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Akila-Ka Ma'at (Jennifer R. Warren)
Assistant Professor
Black Women's Health: Maternal Mental and Perinatal Health, Tobacco/Nicotine Product Use, Infectious Disease, Health Seeking Behavior, Identity Negotiation in Health Contexts, Agency & Self-Determination, Community-Based Participatory Research
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Cheryl Mango
Adjunct Faculty
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Wendi N. Manuel-Scott
Professor
Race, gender, the African American experience, and the history of black women in the Atlantic World
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Juton Myers
Program Coordinator
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Christy L Pichichero
Associate Professor
Early Modern, Enlightenment, Revolutionary History, Literature, Art, & Music of the French Empire; Theories, Histories, and Practices of African Diaspora; Slavery & its Afterlives; War & Culture; Critical Race & Mixed-Race Studies; Gender & Sexuality; Human Rights & Social Justice; Theater; Film; Digital Humanities; Medical History; History of Emotion; Women’s Writing & History; History of News & Information Networks; Critical Pedagogy; Inclusive Pedagogy & Curricular Design; Student/Faculty Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, & Wellbeing; Faculty, Graduate, Undergraduate Recruitment, Retention, & Mentoring; Academic and Community Activism, Academe & Politics.
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Shauna Rigaud
Graduate Teaching Assistant, SOC Professional Development Co-Chair
Black History with a focus on Caribbean American experiences, Black feminism, youth development and community organizing
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Suzanne E. Smith
Professor
African American, 20th century Cultural History, History of Death in America, American Popular Music, African American Religious History
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Tiffany Thames Copeland
Adjunct Faculty
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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