Rosemary Millar is an Associate Professor of Humanities, Literature and Writing in the Division of Liberal Arts. Her classes are interdisciplinary within a hybrid mode, blending different teaching styles (lecture, demonstrator, facilitator, student as teacher, group work, project-based and experiential learning) to respond to the needs of diverse learning. She uses this style to illuminate the significance of academics and the arts on each other.

H. Timothy Lovelace, Jr., a noted legal historian of the civil rights movement, joined the Duke Law faculty in June 2020 from Indiana University where he was a professor of law at the Maurer School of Law and affiliated faculty in the Department of History. He previously taught at Duke Law as the John Hope Franklin Visiting Professor of American Legal History in the spring 2019 semester. During the 2019-2020 academic year he served as a visiting professor of law at the University of Virginia.

Dr. LaTasha Levy is an Associate Professor in the Department of Afro-American Studies. She earned her a B.A. in African American and African Studies at the Carter G. Woodson Institute at the University of Virginia; a master's degree from the Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell University, and a Ph.D. in African American Studies from Northwestern University. Dr. Levy's research and teaching interests include African American History and Culture; Black Intellectual Thought; Black Studies; Black Women's Studies; and the Social Significance of Race.

Delali Kumavie is an assistant professor in the Department of English at Syracuse University. Prior to coming to Syracuse, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Mahindra Humanities Institute at Harvard University, and a predoctoral fellow at the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies at the University of Virginia. She is the author of The Black Aerial Imagination: Aviation and Flight in African and Diasporic Literature (Columbia UP, 2026) which examines how aviation and flight have shaped Black lives and the global Black cultural imagination.

Tera W. Hunter is the Edwards Professor of American History and Professor of African-American Studies, a specialist in the 19th and 20th centuries. Her research focuses on gender, race, labor, and Southern histories.

Cynthia Hoehler-Fatton is an associate professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia. She is the author of Women of Fire and Spirit: History, Faith and Gender in Roho Religion in Western Kenya and is currently completing a manuscript on Islam in western Kenya during the colonial period. Cindy’s scholarship concentrates on the interaction between indigenous religions and the two major missionary traditions embraced by Africans: Christianity and Islam.

Laura Helton is an Associate Professor of English and History at the University of Delaware, where she teaches African American print culture, archival theory, and public humanities. Her award-winning first book, Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History (Columbia University Press, 2024), explores the emergence of African American archives and libraries in the early twentieth century.

Graham is from 4 generations of educators and storytellers. She attributes the starts of her academic career to the discovery of her late father's battered copy of The Negro Caravan and a Royal typewriter. Founding Director of the History of Black Writing (HBW), and recipient of over $3,500,000 in external funding, her research is tied directly to the recovery, preservation, and recirculation of understudied texts and authors, supported by national and international collaborations.

Michael Furlough is Executive Director of Hathi Trust. Furlough's research has focused on how libraries and universities develop organizational support for emerging scholarly communication practices, and he has presented work at the Digital Library Federation, the American Association of University Presses, the Charleston Conference, the Bloomsbury Conference, Educause, IFLA and other venues.  From 2011-2013, Furlough served as faculty for the ARL/DLF/Duraspace E-Science Institute.

Benjamin Fagan received his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia, and his B.A. from the University of Iowa. He is the author of Frederick Douglass’s Newspapers: Black Organizing and the Press for Freedom and The Black Newspaper and the Chosen Nation, editor of African American Literature in Transition, 1830-1850, and co-editor of Visions of Glory: The Civil War in Word and Image.