Faculty and Staff

Black Latin American/U.S. Black Latinx social movements, Black Queer Feminisms, Black Queer Diaspora Studies, Maroon geographies of Central America's Caribbean Coasts, Black Indigeneity, and transnational Black feminist ethnographies and theories.

19th and 20th-century Black eco-literary traditions, the afterlives of slavery, ecofeminism, political ecology, the neo-slave narrative genre 

Early modern Atlantic world, colonial America, colonial Latin America, Native American history

Modern European and colonial art; the Caribbean; contemporary African diasporic art; theories of affect, Black feminism, ecocriticism, and psychoanalysis.

Specialize on African healing traditions; disease, medicine, and empire; urban history; and Francophone West and Central Africa.

Visual studies, race, museums, representations of Africa.

Anti-racist education, decolonization of curriculum and schools, intercultural sensitivity, multicultural education, urban education, teacher education, culturally relevant pedagogy, constructivism .