African American Faculty Research Areas

Dr. Gary Edward Holcomb

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  • 20th-century African American literatures, with a critical concentration on modernist period literature, including the Harlem Renaissance, the literature of the Great Depression decade, and postwar writing
  • The Black Arts Movement and black transnational, postmodernist fiction

Dr. Uzoma Miller

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  • Auto-Ethnography
  • Intersections of African-derived music forms and their penetration in public spaces
  • HBCU (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) Place-Consciousness
  • Africana Experiential Learning
  • Inclusive Pedagogy

Dr. Robin D. Muhammad

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  • Labor history, including workers, their communities and their political institutions.
  • History of industrial workers of African descent.

Dr. Brian Stephens

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  • African American Studies, Interdisciplinary Studies, and Media Studies
  • Black engagement with “Black Camp” 
  • Black queer roots of Punk Rock music