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 Feminist Theory; Black Political Thought + Theory; Intellectual Histories

Research Interests: Early 16th-century afro-indigenous anti-colonial resistance in Ayiti-Kiskeya-Bohio, the relationship between historical erasure and identity formation, Black feminist hauntology, maroonage, critical theories of the state/violence, pedagogy of slavery, BlackCrit, Third World feminism, metaphysics of Blackness, and fugitivity.

Research Interests: Cultural studies; Black and Latine popular culture; race and digital culture; Afro-Latin America, especially Panama and the Caribbean; history and politics of digital entertainment technologies; simulation of racial subjectivity; videogames; play and ludology; power, play, and pedagogy

Research Interests: Gender and Sexuality Studies; Queer Black Feminisms; Affect; Storytelling and/as Theory; Lordean Poetics and Erotics; Blackness and Ontology

Research Interests: Haitian Studies; 20th Century Afro-Latin American and Caribbean Histories; Caribbean Migrations in U.S. Empire; Black Feminist Historiography; Oral History; Decolonial and Post Colonial Theory

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

Research Interests: Politics, History, Law and Political Economy

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

Research Interests: Social and Political Theory; Africana Philosophy; Existential Phenomenology; Black Political Thought; Critical Theory; Postcolonial Studies; Psychoanalysis; Social Epidemiology; Biomedical Ethics; Cinematography

Research Interests: Black Left Print Culture; Black Press Studies; Black Feminist Epistemologies; Intellectual History; Political Education

Research Interests: Transnational Black Feminist Theory; Indigenous Feminisms, Migration and Diaspora Studies; 20th Century Legal History; Critical Literary Theory

Research Interests: Black Internationalism; Black Intellectual Histories; Black France & French Colonial History; Critical Theory; Archival Methodologies

Research Interests: Black Trans Studies; Trans of Color Critique; Black Feminist Theory; Feminist New Materialisms; Performance Theory; Media Studies; Pop Culture; Cultural Production; Ontology; Materiality

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