Through fieldwork and lab-based experiments, I explore human innovation, cultural transmission, and collaborative approaches to paleoanthropology and heritage.

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

Sinmyung Park holds a PhD in Justice Studies from ASU, where his dissertation examined the politics of disability inclusion in Western Uganda. He also manages an international development project in Western 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.