Team Category: Faculty

Stephanie Jones is invested in how spatial logics produce abjection which continues to result in forced migration for Black communities. Using housing development as a modality of the production of […]

Dr. Jaye Austin Williams is a critically acclaimed actor, director and playwright, as well as a scholar who specializes in the analysis of drama, cinema, performance, queer, feminist and disability […]

Sage Ni’Ja Whitson, Professor (they/them) – is an international multiple award-winning Queer Transgender artist, writer, and medicine worker, noted by Brooklyn Magazine as a culture influencer and the Park Avenue Amory as […]

Emerging from collaborative efforts in Brazil and the United States, Black collective inventions structure the written work listed under this name. Engendering alternatives to the foundational and current dynamics of […]

Dylan’s lifework focuses on liberationist, anticolonial, and abolitionist confrontations with the antiblack, colonial, and white supremacist violences that permeate the ongoing Civilization project. He is devoted to studying and teaching […]

Research is invested in how black folx strive to embrace personal and communal psychic wholeness through circulating/constructing black subjectivities, knowledges, culture, spiritualities, and the manufacturing of black and radical realities. […]

Desireé R. Melonas is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Black Study and Political Science. Her research focuses on the rhythmic and inductive aspects of racialized place, black feminist […]

Dr. Imani Kai Johnson is an interdisciplinary scholar specializing in the Africanist aesthetics, Hip Hop streetdance cultures and practices, oral history and ethnography, and structures of power. She was raised […]

Dr. Jerry’s primary interests are in theorizing the relationship between blackness and citizenship. His work highlights how blackness has historically been conceived of as the means of production and the […]

Dr. Ambrose’s work is concerned with Black trans and queer spiritualities and religious expressions as they inform communal healing and activism. Looking to archives, cultural productions, and autoethnographic research as […]