Bernice Abolga

Ph.D. Student

• bfabolga@iu.edu

Research Interests: African and African American Literature/Folklore/Diaspora Studies/Greek and Roman North Africa, and Storytelling among women and children during wartime

Marshall Allen

Ph.D. Student

• allenkae@iu.edu

Research Interests: Law enforcement disparities in Black communities, reactive legislation, protest and free speech policies, first amendment applications in Black movements, statute development, and constitutional law.

Jada Chivers

M.A. Student

• jchivers@iu.edu

Research Interests: Intersectionality of Blackness and Mental Heatlh, Examining Resilience, Community, and Cultural Traditions

Bobby Davis Jr.

Ph.D. Student

• bobbdavi@indiana.edu

Research Interests: Black popular and Black religious music with a specific interest in instrumentalist performing in the Black worship setting

Erin Eatman

Ph.D. Student

• eeatman@iu.edu

Research Interests: Examining the intersections of pop culture, media, and sociopolitical attitudes in Black American communities, Black American artistic and cultural expression, Black Policitcal Thought

Jeffery Giddings

Ph.D. Student

• jgiddin@iu.edu

Research Interests: Black History, Black Internationalism, Public Administration/Policy, and Sociology.

Ashley Hayes

M.A. Student

• ashaye@iu.edu

Research Interests: the systemic oppression of race as a violation of human rights throughout the Black international to actualize its eradication and implement power structures that promote an antiracist humanity

George Ike

Ph.D. Student

• gike@iu.edu

Research Interests: Decolonization of the Political System In West Africa using the model of the Civil Rights Movement and the African American Resilience

Casey Johnson

Ph.D. Student

• cej13@iu.edu

Research Interests: Examining Slave Revolts from the early 1800s, as well as resistances involving race, gender, and class

Michelee Jones

Ph.D. Student

• mictjone@iu.edu

Research Interests: African-American music, African-American church history, and Black boys and drumming. Special focus on how African-American music serves as one of the most accurate records of the African-American journey within the US consistently throughout the years and how Black boys special connection with drumming through their African heritage can help to empower them throughout the duration of their lives. 

Oluwanifemi Ologunorisa

Ph.D. Student

• oologuno@iu.edu

Research Interests: explore how African women leverage digital technologies for social inclusion. It cuts across areas within Black feminist digital studies, Digital methods, African feminism(s), Black girl studies, and Gender and Digital Development.

Daniel Reischer

Ph.D. Student

• dtreisch@iu.edu

Research Interests: The intersections of Black and Jewish thought and culture, Genocides and their aftermaths in both the public eye and justice systems, processes of racialization in the United States and Europe, and post-colonial theory. 

Andrew Stadeker II

Ph.D. Student

• abstadek@indiana.edu

Research Interests: African American Migration to Ghana, the Africanness of Ancient Egypt and Blacksmiths.

Keyonna White

MA Student

• whitekey@iu.edu

Research Interests:

Latonya Wilson

M.A. Student

• latowils@iu.edu

Zakwani Zulualabiade

Ph.D. Student

• zazulu@iu.edu