Our graduate students represent a wide range of interests and aspirations, whether pursuing a master’s or doctoral degree. They represent the future of our supportive community of scholars, coming from many backgrounds and various parts of the world. Whatever their specific goals—in academia, law, social services, business, the performing arts, or education—they contribute to a long-standing conversation about race, history, and justice within our department and its course offerings.
Ph.D. Student
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.
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: Black popular and Black religious music with a specific interest in instrumentalist performing in the Black worship setting
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: Black History, Black Internationalism, Public Administration/Policy, and Sociology.
M.A. Student
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
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: Decolonization of the Political System In West Africa using the model of the Civil Rights Movement and the African American Resilience
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: Examining Slave Revolts from the early 1800s, as well as resistances involving race, gender, and class
Ph.D. Student
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.
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: International Black Power, Black Power in the Carribbean,Trinidad and Tobago History, Histories of Black Radicalism
Ph.D. Student
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.
Ph.D. Student
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.
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests: African American Migration to Ghana, the Africanness of Ancient Egypt and Blacksmiths.
MA Student
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M.A. Student
Ph.D. Student
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