{"id":8376,"date":"2019-03-18T08:35:44","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T12:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/?page_id=8376"},"modified":"2023-10-31T16:50:29","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T20:50:29","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/people\/faculty\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><div class=\"bu-slideshow-container research autoplay\" id=\"bu-slideshow-container-13391\" data-slideshow-name=\"research\" data-slideshow-delay=\"2000\" style=\"width: auto; height: 636px;\"><div class='slideshow-loader active'><div class='loader-animation'><\/div><p>loading slideshow...<\/p><\/div><div class=\"bu-slideshow-slides\"><ul class=\"bu-slideshow transition-slide\" id=\"bu-slideshow-13391\"><li id=\"bu-slideshow-13391_0\" class=\"slide overflow: hidden;\"><div class=\"bu-slide-container slide-caption-bottom-right\"><img src=\"\/afam\/files\/2021\/03\/Blackness-in-Morocco-book-jpeg.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div><\/li><li id=\"bu-slideshow-13391_1\" class=\"slide overflow: hidden;\"><div class=\"bu-slide-container slide-caption-bottom-right\"><img src=\"\/afam\/files\/2020\/09\/american-spiritual-churches.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div><\/li><li id=\"bu-slideshow-13391_2\" class=\"slide overflow: hidden;\"><div class=\"bu-slide-container slide-caption-bottom-right\"><img src=\"\/afam\/files\/2020\/11\/locs-sound-of-culture.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div><\/li><li id=\"bu-slideshow-13391_3\" class=\"slide overflow: hidden;\"><div class=\"bu-slide-container slide-caption-bottom-right\"><img src=\"\/afam\/files\/2020\/09\/thornton-africa-and-africans-in-the-making-of-the-atlantic-world.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div><\/li><li id=\"bu-slideshow-13391_4\" class=\"slide overflow: hidden;\"><div class=\"bu-slide-container slide-caption-bottom-right\"><img src=\"\/afam\/files\/2020\/09\/Heywood-Contested-Power-in-Angola-414x636.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div><\/li><li id=\"bu-slideshow-13391_5\" class=\"slide overflow: hidden;\"><div class=\"bu-slide-container slide-caption-bottom-right\"><img src=\"\/afam\/files\/2022\/05\/grundybook-424x636.jpg\" alt=\"Cover of book &quot;Respectable: Politics and Paradox in Making a Morehouse Man&quot; by Dr. Saida Grundy.\" \/><\/div><\/li><li id=\"bu-slideshow-13391_6\" class=\"slide overflow: hidden;\"><div class=\"bu-slide-container slide-caption-bottom-right\"><img src=\"\/afam\/files\/2018\/11\/46-Cover-FINAL-768x1101-419x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div><\/li><li id=\"bu-slideshow-13391_7\" class=\"slide overflow: hidden;\"><div class=\"bu-slide-container slide-caption-bottom-right\"><img src=\"\/afam\/files\/2020\/09\/HeywoodThonton-Foundation-of-the-Americas.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div><\/li><li id=\"bu-slideshow-13391_8\" class=\"slide overflow: hidden;\"><div class=\"bu-slide-container slide-caption-bottom-right\"><img src=\"\/afam\/files\/2020\/09\/RTBS_I_50_02_COVER_555-1-437x636.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div><\/li><li id=\"bu-slideshow-13391_9\" class=\"slide overflow: hidden;\"><div class=\"bu-slide-container slide-caption-bottom-right\"><img src=\"\/afam\/files\/2020\/09\/Thornton-the-kingdom-of-kongo.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div><\/li><li id=\"bu-slideshow-13391_10\" class=\"slide overflow: hidden;\"><div class=\"bu-slide-container slide-caption-bottom-right\"><img src=\"\/afam\/files\/2019\/05\/MBQBook.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div><\/li><li id=\"bu-slideshow-13391_11\" class=\"slide overflow: hidden;\"><div class=\"bu-slide-container slide-caption-bottom-right\"><img src=\"\/afam\/files\/2020\/09\/Thornton-2020-history-of-west-central-africa.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div><\/li><li id=\"bu-slideshow-13391_12\" class=\"slide overflow: hidden;\"><div class=\"bu-slide-container slide-caption-bottom-right\"><img src=\"\/afam\/files\/2022\/05\/Rivera_Model_revised.cover_.design-1-421x636.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div><\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"bu-slideshow-navigation-container\"><ul class=\"bu-slideshow-navigation nav-icon\" id=\"bu-slideshow-nav-13391\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-1\" class=\" active\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>1<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-2\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>2<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-3\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>3<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-4\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>4<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-5\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>5<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-6\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>6<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-7\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>7<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-8\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>8<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-9\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>9<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-10\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>10<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-11\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>11<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-12\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>12<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-13\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>13<\/span><\/a><\/li> <\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h4 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">English &amp; Literature<\/h4><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/profile\/mary-anne-boelcskevy\/\">Mary Anne Boelcskevy<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>African American literature; especially the novel, pedagogy, women\u2019s studies, and cultural perspectives<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/profile\/laurence-a-breiner\/\">Laurence A. Breiner<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Literatures of the English-speaking Caribbean, including poetry and drama<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/profile\/louis-chude-sokei\/\">Louis Chude-Sokei<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Literature, Theory, Technology, Music, Diaspora<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/profile\/ianna-hawkins-owen\/\">Ianna Hawkins Owen<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Fiction, African diaspora theory, asexuality, failure and freedom<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/english\/profile\/anita-patterson\/\">Anita Patterson<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>American literature, modernism, and black poetry of the Americas<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/profile\/takeo-rivera\/\">Takeo Rivera<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>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<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h4 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">Sociology<\/h4><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/profile\/saida-grundy\/\">Saida Grundy<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Feminist sociology, masculinity, analysis of institutions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/profile\/john-stone\/\">John Stone<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Comparative race and ethnic relations, international migration, social change and sociological theory<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h4 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">History<\/h4><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/profile\/paula-austin\/\">Paula Austin<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>History of race and racism, history of social science<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/profile\/linda-heywood\/\">Linda Heywood<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Diaspora studies, history of Angola, Colonial &amp; Modern African History since 1870, Women in Africa, Caribbean and Africa<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/profile\/john-thornton\/\">John Thornton<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>African and Atlantic History, diaspora studies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h4 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">Music &amp; Art<\/h4><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/profile\/cynthia-becker\/\">Cynthia Becker<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>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<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/profile\/michael-birenbaum-quintero\/\">Michael Birenbaum Quintero<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Afro-Colombians, Afro-Latin America, Caribbean, US Latinx, Ethnomusicology, Cultural Politics, Sound Studies, Popular Music, Religiosity, Technology, Circulation, and Violence<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h4 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">Humanities<\/h4><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/profile\/joyce-hope-scott\/\">Joyce Hope Scott<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Diaspora studies, African Spirituality in literature and culture of America, Media and Race, Global Perspectives on Reparations, Restitution &amp; Restorative Justice, Law and Narrative in the African American Literary Tradition, African American &amp; Women\u2019s Narratives<br \/>\n                of Resistance\n            <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h4 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">Political Science<\/h4><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/profile\/katherine-levine-einstein\/\">Katherine Levine Einstein<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Urban politics and policy, racial and ethnic politics, political geography, and American public policy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/profile\/spencer-piston\/\">Spencer Piston<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Race, class, the welfare state, and the criminal justice system<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h4 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">Religion<\/h4><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/profile\/margarita-simon-guillory\/\">Margarita Simon Guillory<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>American religious history, digital religion, and religion and popular culture; 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