DEPARTMENT OF BLACK STUDIES

Research Interests: Black Feminist Political Economies, Political Theory, 20th Century African American History, Black Cultural Studies

Research Interests: The actualization of Black and Indigenous Feminist Science Fiction and Climate Fiction’s racial-environmental reimaginings by BIPOC farmers and landworkers; BIPOC Speculative Feminist Fiction; BIPOC Farming and Land Work; Indigenous Environmentalism; Black Environmentalism; Nature Writing; BIPOC Environmental Anarchism and Sustainability

Research Interests: Black Radical Tradition, Black Radical Imagination, Black feminist theory, 20th-century social movements and intellectual histories, Black political theory, political ideology, 20th-century Black fiction

Research Interests: Black thought, critical race theory, racial identity, ontology, public memory, pedagogy of slavery, resistance, slavery, maroonage, theories of violence, Black anger and afro-latinx studies.

Research Interests: Blackness/whiteness and digital culture, videogames and race, history and politics of videogames as a medium, videogames and Afro-Latin America, play and ludology, simulation of racial subjectivity and abjection, Black popular "hood" culture/media

Research Interests: Queer Black Gender and Sexuality Studies; Black Feminist and Queer Theory; Performance Studies; Affect Theory; Storytelling; Blackness and Ontology

Research Interests: blackness + the digital, visuality, visual technology of 19th century, literature, political histories, political membership

Research Interests: Public Policy and Governance, Women and Gender Studies, Underserved/Underrepresented Communities, Social Welfare, Queer Theory, African Feminisms

Research Interests: Racial Capitalism; Neoliberalism; Carceral Geographies; Militarism; Imperialism; Anti-Colonial Thought; Epistemologies of Black and Brown Insurgency; Politics of Aesthetics; Youth Counter-Culture; Critical Gang Studies; U.S. Urban Public Schools

Research Interests: African American and African Diasporic Literature; Black Writing Collectives; Poetry and Poetics; Aesthetics and Politics; Black Social Movements; Cultural Studies; Black Feminist Thought; Canon Formation; Post-Civil Rights Black Politics; Critical Theory; the Culture Wars

Research Interests: Twentieth Century Black Social Movements, Black Intellectual History, Black Political Thought, British Colonial History, Black British History

Research Interests: Performance Studies, Historical Performance (Euro-American circuses/freak shows), Disability Studies, Racial Fetishism, Black Feminist Theory

Research Interests: Black Education Tradition, Political Education, Political Economy, Black Radical Tradition, Cold War Histories, Anti-Imperialism

Research Interests: Transnational Black feminist theory, Indigenous feminisms, migration and Diaspora studies, 20th century legal history, critical literary theory.

Research Interests: Abolition; Black Anarchism; Black Feminist Theories; Carceral Studies; Insurgency & Counter-Insurgency; Oral History; Political and Politicized Prisoner Organizing; Prefigurative Politics; Racial Capitalism; Settler Colonialism; 20th Century African American and Latinx Social Movement Histories