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Christopher F. Petrella Ph.D.

Visiting Lecturer

African Diaspora Studies, African-American studies, American cultural studies, American studies, Black Panther Party, black power, blackness, critical theory, cultural studies, race, race and science, racism, radical pedagogy, white nationalism, white supremacy, whiteness

Charles I. Nero

Benjamin E. Mays '20 Distinguished Prof of Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies

African American literary studies, African-American studies, American studies, critical race theory, cultural studies, film studies, LGBTQ issues in film and literature, literary and rhetorical criticism, popular culture studies, queer theory and studies, race and Hollywood film

Catherine C. Saunders

Visiting Assistant Professor of Africana

20th and 21st century African American Literature, African American literature and cultural studies, Black British Literature, Black Critical Theory, Black interiority, Caribbean literature, Toni Morrison

Marcelle M. Medford

Associate Professor of Sociology

Black Caribbean immigrants in the US, Black sociology, Ethnography, immigrant racialization, Qualitative Methods, sociology of immigration, urban immigration, urban sociology

Therí Pickens

Charles A. Dana Professor of English and Africana

20th and 21st century African American/Arab American literature, African American literature and cultural studies, Arab American literature and cultural studies, black feminism, cognitive impairment, disability, disability studies, gender studies, literary theory, mental health, physical impairment, spectacular fiction

Ian Khara Ellasante

Assistant Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies

African American cultural studies, Black feminisms, Community-Engaged learning, cultural studies, Decolonizing methodologies, feminist theory, gender and sexuality, Indigenous studies, LGBTQ2+ Youth and Young Adults, North American Indigenous feminisms, North American Indigenous literatures, Peoplehood matrix, race and ethnicity, reproductive justice, Reproductive justice, Settler colonialism, transgender studies

Pavel Bacovsky

Visiting Assistant Professor of Politics

American politics, comparative politics, Leisure activities and politics, New technologies in politics, political psychology, Youth political behavior

Baltasar Fra-Molinero

Professor of Hispanic Studies

Cervantes, Global Hispanophone Studies, literature and culture of Equatorial Guinea, Literatures of the African Diaspora in Spanish, race and religion in early modern Spain and Spanish America, Spanish, Spanish and Spanish American Renaissance and Baroque studies, Spanish baroque theater

Melinda A. Plastas

Senior Lecturer in Gender and Sexuality Studies

20th century U.S. social movements, African American history, American studies, black feminism, critical race theory, cultural studies, gender studies, health justice, history of commodities, peace studies, Social Movements, tobacco in history and culture, women and gender studies

Aleksandar M. Diamond-Stanic

Associate Professor of Physics