Professor Jamila Michener

Biological Essentialism Hurts All Athletes

"The continual and increasing proliferation of anti-trans policy, along with the negative portrayal of trans people, has dire outcomes beyond sports. For one, policies not only impact how groups of people are viewed, but they also have the power to redistribute resources and set political agendas. In creating a problem that isn’t there, these...

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Cheryl Finley

Cheryl Finley holds aPh.D. inAfrican American Studies andHistory of Art from Yale University. With nearly 20 years of research on historic and contemporary images of the transatlantic slave trade, her seminal study, Committed to Memory: The Art of the Slave Ship Icon (Princeton University Press, 2018) was the winner of the Historians of British Art Book Prize, 1600-1800. This monograph is the first in-depth study of the most famous image associated with the memory of slavery, a schematic engraving of a packed slave ship hold, and the art, architecture, poetry and film it has inspired since its creation in Britain in 1788. Another of Dr. Finley’s works, My Soul Has Grown Deep: Black Art from the American South (Yale University Press, 2018), has accompanied the exhibition History Refused to Die: Highlights from the Souls Grown Deep Foundation at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 2018.

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Grant Farred

Grant Farred: PhD (Princeton University, 1997), MA (Columbia University, 1990), BA Honours, Cum laude, University of the Western Cape, South Africa, 1988). He has previously taught in the Program in Literature, Duke University, Williams College and Michigan University. He served as General Editor of the journal South Atlantic Quarterly (SAQ) from 2002 to 2010.

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Ziad Fahmy

Ziad Fahmy is a Professor of Modern Middle East History at the department of Near Eastern studies. Professor Fahmy received his History Ph.D. in 2007 from the University of Arizona, where his dissertation “Popularizing Egyptian Nationalism” was awarded theMalcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Award (2008)from the Middle East Studies Association.

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Locksley Edmondson

Dr. Locksley Edmondson, Professor in the Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell University since 1983, is a political scientist with specializations in international relations (especially concerning Africa and the Caribbean) and race relations (especially concerning the Black World).

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Naminata Diabate

A scholar of sexuality, race, biopolitics, and postcoloniality, Naminata’s research primarily explores African, African American, Caribbean, and Afro-Hispanic literatures, cultures, cinema, and new media.

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Judith A. Byfield

Field Member, Africana Studies and Research Center, College of Arts and Sciences

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Happiness Bulugu

Happiness Bulugu is a Kiswahili lecturer at Africana Studies and Research Center. She is interested in teaching language acquisition and cultural understanding. Her techniques include exposing students to the Swahili language and the speech communities’ customs, traditions, and norms through authentic Swahili materials and literature. Her application approach is communicative teaching across learning styles. She poses questions on language and culture that stimulate and encourage cultural understanding and exploration, which enhance life-long learning.

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Carole Boyce Davies

Carole Boyce Davies is Frank H. T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters and Professor of Africana Studies and Literatures in English. She has held distinguished professorships at a number of institutions, including the Herskovits Professor of African Studies and Professor of Comparative Literary Studies and African American Studies at Northwestern University. She is the author of Black Women, Writing and Identity: Migrations of the Subject (Routledge, 1994) and Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones (Duke University Press, 2008). In addition to numerous scholarly articles, Boyce Davies has also published the following critical anthologies: Ngambika: Studies of Women in African Literature (Africa World Press, 1986); Out of the Kumbla: Caribbean Women and Literature (Africa World Press, 1990); and a two-volume collection of critical and creative writing entitled Moving Beyond Boundaries (New York University Press, 1995): International Dimensions of Black Women’s Writing (volume 1), and Black Women’s Diasporas (volume 2). She is co-editor with Ali Mazrui and Isidore Okpewho of The African Diaspora: African Origins and New World Identities (Indiana University Press, 1999) and Decolonizing the Academy: African Diaspora Studies (Africa World Press, 2003). She is general editor of the three-volume, The Encyclopedia of the African Diaspora (Oxford: ABC-CLIO, 2008), and of Claudia Jones: Beyond Containment: Autobiography, Essays, Poetry (Banbury: Ayebia, 2011). More recent work include Caribbean Spaces: Escape Routes from Twilight Zones (Illinois, 2013) and a children’s book, Walking (EducaVision, 2016) and the forthcoming Circularities of Power. Black Women's Right to Political Leadership (Lexington Books - Rowman and Littlefield, 2022). A member of the scientific committee for UNESCO’s updated General History of Africa, she edited the epistemological forum on “Global Blackness” for the African Diaspora volume. She is a past-president of the Caribbean Studies Association which organized under her leadership the first CSA Conference in Haiti in 2016. Her popular essays and reviews have been published in media including The Washington Post, The Crisis, Ms Magazine, Ithaca Journal, The Black Scholar, Miami Herald, Trinidad Guardian and Trinidad Express.

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Zeyad el Nabolsy

Borderlines

Zeyad el Nabolsy has become the Africa editor for Borderlines

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Ernesto Bassi

My research interests coalesce around two significant questions: How do people develop geographic and cultural identifications? How do geographic regions come into being? In particular, I am interested in the role circulation (of goods, people, news, and ideas) plays in the configuration of geographic spaces, collective identities, geopolitical projects, and political allegiances.

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