Thomas Lutes is a Ph.D. Journalism & Mass Communication Candidate at the Walter Cronkite School. His research relies on critical discourse analysis of drag performers and their kinship structures in popular media.

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.

Bynum's research focuses on the Black and Brown freedom struggles, the carceral state and oral history.

Refugee/asylum migration and displacement, transnationalism, human rights, transitional justice, militarism, and conflict and peace in the Horn of Africa and northern Uganda.