El Hamel's research focuses mainly on issues of power/class, slavery, race/ethnicity, gender and social justice.

Anokye is a sociolinguist with research on African Diaspora orality and literacy, folklore, discourse analysis and oral history specializing in Ghanaian culture, religion, storytelling, dance and social justice.

Moore has taught American and African American religious history at William and Mary; the University of Missouri-Columbia; and Arizona State University.

Joslin's interdisciplinary research on African literature and film combine aesthetic theories of representation and socio-cultural interpretations of texts in order to reimagine global discourses within a humanistic framework.