Khalil Gibran Muhammad is a professor of History, Race, and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and the Suzanne Young Murray Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies. He is the former Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, a division of the New York Public Library and the world’s leading […]

Kevin Cokley, Ph.D. is a Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies and Educational Psychology, as well as a Faculty Affiliate of the Center for African and African American Studies at the University of Texas-Austin. Dr. Cokley’s research and teaching can be broadly categorized in the area of African American psychology. His research interests include […]

Ed Pavlić (Ph.D. Indiana University) is the Distinguished Research Professor of English and African American Studies. Affiliated faculty in Creative Writing, author of eight collections of poetry, two critical studies, and a novel, he twice served as Director of the Creative Writing Ph.D. Program in English (2006-2011, 2015-2017). His most recent books are Another Kind […]

Keffrelyn D. Brown (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison) is a Professor of Cultural Studies in Education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction. She holds a faculty appointment in the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies, the John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies and the Center for Women and Gender Studies. […]

Dr. Ricky Jones is a Professor and the Graduate Director & Chair in the Pan-African Studies Department at the University of Louisville. His research focuses on African American Politics and Leadership, Political Theory, African American Nationalism, Violence and Resistance, and the African American Male.

Professor Musgrove teaches courses in Post-WWII United States History at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County with an emphasis on African American politics. He is the author of Rumor, Repression, and Racial Politics: How the Harassment of Black Elected Officials Shaped Post-Civil Rights America (U. of Georgia, 2012) and co-author, with Chris Myers Asch, of Chocolate City, […]

Chloe Latham Sikes is a doctoral student in the Educational Policy & Planning program in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy at the University of Texas at Austin. She holds a B.A. in Anthropology from Grinnell College and an M.A. in Curriculum & Instruction from UT-Austin. Her research interests include the intersections of immigration […]

Michael Ezra is professor of American Multicultural Studies at Sonoma State University. He is the author of the book Muhammad Ali: The Making of an Icon (2009) and editor of the books Civil Rights Movement: People and Perspectives (2009) and The Economic Civil Rights Movement: African Americans and the Struggle for Economic Power. Ezra is also the editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed Journal […]

Pero Gaglo Dagbovie is a University Distinguished Professor of History and Associate Dean in the Graduate School.  His research and teaching interests comprise a range of time periods, themes, and topical specialties, including black intellectual history, the history of the black historical enterprise, black women’s history, black life during “the nadir,” the civil rights-Black Power movement, […]

Ashley D. Farmer is a historian of black women’s history, intellectual history, and radical politics. Her book, Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era  (UNC Press, 2017), is the first comprehensive study of black women’s intellectual production and activism in the Black Power era.  She is also the co-editor of New Perspectives on the Black Intellectual […]