English & Literature
- African American literature; especially the novel, pedagogy, women’s studies, and cultural perspectives
- Literatures of the English-speaking Caribbean, including poetry and drama
- Literature, Theory, Technology, Music, Diaspora
- Fiction, African diaspora theory, asexuality, failure and freedom
- American literature, modernism, and black poetry of the Americas
- Performance studies with a focus on race, sexuality, and gender in U.S. American cultural production, Asian American literature, playwriting, contemporary drama, new media, critical theory
Sociology
- Saida Grundy
- Feminist sociology, masculinity, analysis of institutions
- John Stone
- Comparative race and ethnic relations, international migration, social change and sociological theory
History
- Paula Austin
- History of race and racism, history of social science
- Linda Heywood
- Diaspora studies, history of Angola, Colonial & Modern African History since 1870, Women in Africa, Caribbean and Africa
- John Thornton
- African and Atlantic History, diaspora studies
Music & Art
- Cynthia Becker
- Arts of the Imazighen (Berbers) in northwestern Africa, carnival arts in New Orleans, New Orleans Mardi Gras Indians, the removal of confederate monuments in New Orleans, Trans-Saharan slave trade, constructions of Blackness in Morocco
- Michael Birenbaum Quintero
- Afro-Colombians, Afro-Latin America, Caribbean, US Latinx, Ethnomusicology, Cultural Politics, Sound Studies, Popular Music, Religiosity, Technology, Circulation, and Violence
Humanities
- Joyce Hope Scott
- Diaspora studies, African Spirituality in literature and culture of America, Media and Race, Global Perspectives on Reparations, Restitution & Restorative Justice, Law and Narrative in the African American Literary Tradition, African American & Women’s Narratives of Resistance
Political Science
- Katherine Levine Einstein
- Urban politics and policy, racial and ethnic politics, political geography, and American public policy
- Spencer Piston
- Race, class, the welfare state, and the criminal justice system
Religion
- Margarita Simon Guillory
- American religious history, digital religion, and religion and popular culture; identity construction in Africana esoteric religions, religion and technology, and social scientific approaches to religion
Social Work
- Robert Eschmann
- Race; social media; education; violence prevention; community organizing; activism
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