Within these broad and intersecting demarcations, research in the program originates with the expertise and interest of faculty members and graduate students. Topics of inquiry among the core faculty suggest the range of interests and activities supported by the department.
Research Areas
African American history
Agricultural history and Black rural communities
The Black family
Intercultural communication
Pedagogy and civic engagement
Black studies as an academic discipline
Early Black literature and autobiography
African American gothic studies
Resistance and social justice revolutions in American political history
Art of North America and the African diaspora
Race and representation
Visual arts of the Harlem/Negro Renaissance
Art and visual culture during the Great Depression
Caricature and stereotype in American art and popular culture
Art and appropriation
The College of Arts