Graduate Students

Minali Aggarwal

Racializing effects of the prison and another to understand and explain conservative politics among communities of color

Kaelyn Apple

Black British History, Motherhood, Body Politics, Racial Injustice, and Early Modern Legal History

Jorge Banuelos

African American Religious History; Historical Political Economy; Black Radicalisms; Phenomenology & Psychoanalysis; Black Studies Theory & Method

Ruthie Block

Fugitivity Studies; 19th - 21st Century African American and Black Diasporic Literature; Black Feminist Archival Studies; Black Print Culture

Tyler Campbell

20th/21st century African American Literature, Black Poetics, Social Movement Histories, Prison Writing, Jazz/Hip-Hop Studies, Public Humanities

Yohely Comprés

Afro-Dominican literature and Black critical theory

Shefali Gauri Das

Racial Capitalism, Policing, Neoliberalism, Economic Sociology, State Violence

Elizabeth Durrant

Black and women composers, Black feminism, 20th and 21st century music, neoromantic music, literature, Black Chicago Renaissance, American song

Naomi Amenu-Fesseha

Black radical thought, African/Third World Marxisms, aesthetics, contemporary art, political education, liberatory pedagogy

Niara Foster

Black Studies, Black Radicalism & Rebellion, Black Sacred Traditions, Archive & Memory Studies, Health & Healing

Kristine Guillaume

20th and 21st century African American and Black diasporic literature, prison writing, Black political thought, life-writing

Gabrielle Hill

Black Feminist Theory; 19th Century to 21st Century African American Poetry; Speculative Fiction; Eco-Criticism; Eco-Poetics

Conor Hodges

20th Century U.S. History, Carceral Studies, Military History, Black Freedom Struggle, Insurgency & Counterinsurgency, Wars on Crime, Drugs, and Terror

Josie Hodson

African Diasporic Art; Modern; Contemporary; African American Art

Makedah Hughes

20th and 21st Century African Francophone and Anglophone Literature; Pre-Atlantic Slavery; African Diaspora Studies; Archival Studies; Global Black Studies; Literary Translation

Sam Jones

Black Europe; Black transnationalism; African-American travel, particularly in Europe; postcolonial theory; memory studies

Arabella Katz

Black feminist and queer theory, Affect Theory, Archival Studies, 20th and 21st century black women’s writing, Literary Theory, Cultural Studies.

Sophia Lindner

Race and racial ideology, culture and media, mechanisms of racial stratification

Jathan Martin

Black Religion, Material and Visual Culture, and Childhood Studies

Cedric McCoy

Performances of Race and Gender, Sound Studies, Media Studies, Queer Studies, Black Feminisms, Afro-Diasporic popular musics, popular culture, public humanities, equitable scholarship

Christoph' McFadden

African American gospel traditions, history of the black church, 20th and 21st century popular music, celebrity studies, media studies, black theology

Katherine Ponds

Performance Studies; American Studies; Classical Reception Studies; African-American Literature

Yasmina Price

Afro-Diasporic Cinema, affect and flesh, Black Marxism, anti-colonialism, Black Cinema, Marxism, Anti-colonial Filmmaking, Black Feminism, Third-Worldism

Jocelyn Proietti

Visual art, literature, cultural history, and black feminist performances of self

James Ramsey

Empire, Black studies, Indigenous studies, political theology, legal theory

Teanu Reid

17th and 18th-Century African American History, Caribbean History, African Diaspora Studies, Black Studies, Economic History

Maurice Rippel

Race, Gender; African Diaspora; Citizenship; Education; Multimodal Ethnography

Gabriel Rivera Cotto

18th and 19th-century Puerto Rican History, Caribbean History and Literature, Slavery and Emancipation

Joshua Ro

Spirituality in Black music; moral epistemology; jazz studies; Black studies; critical theory; ethnomusicology

Asya Taylor

20th Century African American Literature, New Negro Movement, African American Print Culture, Black Feminism

Babette Thomas

Black radio history; public humanities; sound studies; radio studies; media studies; new media studies; Black feminist theory; affect theory

Taylor Thompson

Black Feminism, Black Theories, Oral Histories, Economic History, Economics, Black Studies

Christopher Valentine

Black Queer Studies, Black Feminism, Archival Studies, HIV/AIDS Scholarship

Devin Williams

Black Studies, Critical University Studies, Theories of Knowledge and Power, Disciplinarity and Difference, Social and Institutional Movements

19th and 20th Century African American History, African Americans in the Civil War, Civil Rights Movements Within Reconstruction and Jim Crow, The Black Diaspora in the American West, Public Memories of Enslavement and Emancipation