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.

Dr. Keon M. McGuire's research agenda focuses on the status and experiences of racially minoritized students across postsecondary educational settings.

Brown is a public historian and a scholar of 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

T. Chester, PhD (they/them) is a Performance Studies scholar specializing in gender, sexuality, and religion in the Black diaspora.

Dr. Justin Harty, MSW, LCSW, is an Assistant Professor whose research focuses on young fathers in foster care and Black social work history.