Fields
Kimberly Fields earned her Ph.D. in political science from the University of Pennsylvania, and obtained her B.A.
Core Faculty
Gaines
Kevin K. Gaines is the Julian Bond Professor of Civil Rights and Social Justice, with a joint appointment in the Corcoran Department of History and the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies. The new professorship was created to honor the legacy of Bond, the civil rights champion and former University of Virginia professor. Gaines’ current research is on the problems and projects of racial integration in the United States during and after the civil rights movement.
Richardson
Dr. Liana Richardson is an interdisciplinary health scholar whose research focuses on the social determinants and consequences of racial inequalities in maternal and child health. She also evaluates policies and programs designed to address these phenomena and improve health among the mothers and children most negatively impacted by them. Dr. Richardson’s work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and published in peer-reviewed journals, such as the Journal of Health & Social Behavior, Annals of Epidemiology, and SSM-Population Health.
Shutt
Rotich
Pendergrass
Sabrina Pendergrass is an Associate Professor of African American and African Studies. Her research and teaching interests include race, inequality, internal migration, cultural sociology, and the U.S. South.
Kahrl
Andrew Kahrl is a professor of History and African American Studies. He specializes in the history of race and inequality in the twentieth-century US, with a focus on housing and real estate, land use and ownership, and local tax systems.
Hamilton
Njelle W. Hamilton is Associate Professor of English and Africana Studies and convener of UVa’s Greater Caribbean Studies Network. She specializes in twentieth and twenty-first century Caribbean literary and cultural studies, with particular focus on narrative innovations in the contemporary Caribbean novel. Her first monograph, Phonographic Memories: Popular Music and the Contemporary Caribbean Novel (Rutgers, 2019), investigates how Caribbean subjects turn to nation music when personal and cultural memory have been impacted by time, travel, or trauma.
Crawley
Ashon Crawley is Professor of Religious Studies and African American and African Studies at the University of Virginia. Professor Crawley works in the areas of black studies, queer theory, sound studies, theology, continental philosophy, and performance studies.
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