Kathryn Ranhorn studies how humans interacted with changing landscapes through deep time, integrating geoarchaeology, human evolution, and collaborative approaches to the African past.

Dr. Stribling is faculty with ASU’s Interplanetary Initiative and PI of the Space Exploration and Sustainable Development project. His research focuses on how engineered technologies contribute to global development.

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

Kroot is an archaeologist whose theoretical and methodological interests include political economy in past societies, stone tool analysis, and collaborative and community-based research methods.

Oloruntobi's research focuses on the narrative and perceptual shifts informed by the mainstreaming of African media products, specifically Afrobeats, and their implications for global Black relationalities.