People

Dean’s Professor of Public and Digital Humanities and Professor of Africana Studies and History

Ángel David Nieves was a Professor of Africana Studies, History, and Digital Humanities in the College of Social Sciences and Humanities (CSSH) at Northeastern University and is an Affiliate Professor in the Department of English and in the School of…

Assistant Professor of Sociology

Department Chair; Associate Professor of Sociology

Liza Weinstein researches and teaches on cities and globalization, urban political economy, and the politics of informality with a regional focus on India. Her work has appeared in Politics & Society, International Journal of Urban and Regional R…

Professor of English and Africana Studies

Professor Aljoe’s research focuses on 18th and early 19th Century Black Atlantic and Caribbean literature with a specialization on the slave narrative and early novels. In addition to teaching in these areas, she has published articles on these…

Dean’s Associate Professor of History and Africana Studies; Associate Director of Public History

Kabria Baumgartner is an award-winning historian of the nineteenth-century United States, specializing in African American women’s and gender history as well as the history of education. She is the author of In Pursuit of Knowledge: Black Women and E…

Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology & Africana Studies

Layla D. Brown is an Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology & Africana Studies and affiliate faculty in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Brown’s research focuses on Pan-African, Socialist, and Feminist social movements in Venezue…

Professor of Religion; Dean’s Leadership Fellow

Liz Bucar is a leading expert in religious ethics. Her research and writing covers a wide range of topics—from sexual reassignment surgery to the politics of religious clothing–but generally focuses on how a deeper understanding religious difference …

Associate Professor in Africana Studies

Bryan Carter is Associate Professor in Africana Studies, at the University of Arizona specializing in African American literature of the 20th Century with a primary focus on the Harlem Renaissance and a secondary emphasis on digital culture; and i…

Professor of English

Julian C. Chambliss is Professor of English with an appointment in History and the Val Berryman Curator of History at the MSU Museum at Michigan State University. His research focuses on race, identity, and power in real and imagined urban spaces.

Assistant Professor of Sociology and Public Policy

Anjanette Chan Tack’s research interests include race/ethnicity, gender, immigration, urban sociology, health, and spatial analytics. Her research has won numerous national awards and has been supported by fellowships from the MacArthur Foundat…

Chair and Associate Professor of History

Gretchen Heefner teaches and researches the history of the U.S. in the world, with a focus on militarization, the environment, and the surprisingly intimate relations between national security regimes and the everyday. Her current research, “From …

Associate Professor of Media Arts

Sarah Kanouse is an interdisciplinary artist and writer examining the politics of landscape and public space. Her research-based creative projects trace the production of landscape through ecological, historical, and legal forces, particularly focusi…

Assistant Professor of History

Jessica C. Linker is a historian of early America and digital scholar. She is working on a book project that examines how women practiced science in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the various social and cultural trends that contemporane…

Distinguished Professor of Philosophy; Chair, Department of Philosophy and Religion

Serena Parekh is a Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religion. She co-edits the journal, Feminist Philosophy Quarterly. She is the author of three books, including her most recent book, No Refuge: Ethics and the Gl…

Associate Professor in the Department of American Studies

Mary C. Sies is an Associate Professor in the Department of American Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is Co-Director of the Material Culture/Visual Culture Working Group, and the Cultural Landscapes Working Group. Her resea…