Ward's research explores the intersection of Black cultural production, culture industries and urban placemaking efforts to advance arts practice and foster inclusive community development.

Dontá McGilvery is the first Black male to graduate with a PhD in Theatre from ASU. He seeks to instigate equitable changes for all people, especially those who are underrepresented.

Brown is a public historian and a scholar of African American literature and culture.

Shamara Wyllie Alhassan's work on Black women’s radical epistemologies focuses on the ways Rastafari women use livity to create communities of social justice and combat anti-black gendered racism.

An Associate Professor in SHPRS, Austin studies the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements. His first book, Up Against the Wall, examines the history of the Black Panther Party