Dr. Nicole Burrowes is an Assistant Professor in the department of History at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She also serves as Associate Director for the Rutgers Advanced Institute for Critical Caribbean Studies. She is a scholar of the African Diaspora, with a focus on 20th century Caribbean and African-American history. Her interests include social movements, racial capitalism, Black Internationalism, and the politics of solidarity.
T. Dionne Bailey is an Assistant Professor of History at Colgate University, where she specializes in African American women's history, carceral studies, southern history, and feminist theory. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Mississippi and completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Virginia’s Carter G. Woodson Institute. Her research on the history of crime and punishment in Parchman Prison earned her the Franklin L. Riley Prize from the Mississippi Historical Society.
Sandy Alexandre’s research spans the late nineteenth-century to present-day black American literature and culture. Her first book, The Properties of Violence: Claims to Ownership in Representations of Lynching (Mississippi 2012), uses the history of American lynching violence as a framework to understand matters concerning displacement, property ownership, and the American pastoral ideology in a literary context.
Sandhya Shukla is professor of English and chair of American Studies at the University of Virginia, where she is also an affiliate faculty member of the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies.
Robert Trent Vinson is the Commonwealth Professor of African American & African Studies, Director & Chair of the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American & African Studies at the University of Virginia, and a Research Associate at Stellenbosch University in South Africa. He is a scholar and teacher of 19th and 20th century African & African Diaspora history, specializing in the transnational connections between southern Africa, the Americas and the Caribbean.
