Professor Donald Henry Matthews received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Chicago. From 1995 to 1997 he was an African-American Post-Doctoral Scholar in the African & Afro-American Studies Program at Washington University in St. Louis.  Currently he is a professor of Religion at Central Michigan University. He is the author of Honoring the Ancestors: An African Cultural Interpretation of Black Religion and Literature.

Professor Garrett Albert Duncan received his Ph.D. in Educational Studies from The Claremont Graduate School. From 1996 to 1997 he was an African-American Postdoctoral Scholar in the African & Afro-American Studies Program at Washington University in St. Louis. From 2010 to 2012 he served as the Director of the Program in African & African-American Studies and Associate Professor of Education at Washington University in St. Louis, with appointments in African & African-American Studies, American Culture Studies, and Urban Studies. He has published his work in Journal of Negro Education, Race Ethnicity and Education, Educational Theory, Equity and Excellence in Education, and Social Justice, among other journals.

Professor Rayvon Fouché received his Ph.D. in History of Technology at Cornell University. From 1996 to 1998 he was an African-American Post-Doctoral fellow in the African & Afro-American Studies Program at Washington University in St. Louis. Currently, he is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Technology Studies, Appropriating Technology: Vernacular Science and Social Power, and Black Inventors in the Age of Segregation.

Professor Joy Ann Williamson-Lott received her Ph.D. in History of Education at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. From 1998 to 1999 she was an African-American Postdoctoral Scholar in the African & Afro-American Studies Program at Washington University in St. Louis. Currently, she is an Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at the University of Washington; she previously taught at Stanford University.  She is the author of Radicalizing the Ebony Tower: Black Colleges and the Black Freedom Struggle and Black Power on Campus: the University of Illinois, 1965-1975.

Professor Maurice Mangum received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Louisiana State University. From 1998 to 1999 he was an African-American Postdoctoral Scholar in the African & Afro-American Studies Program at Washington University in St. Louis. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Texas Southern University. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Ralph Bunche Journal of Public Affairs.  He has published in the Political Research Quarterly, Policy Studies Journal, and Journal of Black Studies. He is currently Interim Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Associate Professor
Political Science at Texas Southern University.

Dean Wilmetta Toliver-Diallo received her Ph.D. in History from Stanford University. From 1998 to 2000 she was an African-American Postdoctoral Scholar in the African & Afro-American Studies Program at Washington University in St. Louis. Currently, she is an Assistant Dean in the College of Arts & Sciences and a Senior Lecturer of African & African-American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis.  She also started and organizes the annual African Film Festival at Washington University.

Professor Shanti Parikh received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from Yale University. From 2000 to 2001 she was an African-American Postdoctoral Scholar in the African & Afro-American Studies Program at Washington University in St. Louis. Currently, she is an Associate Professor of Socio-Cultural Anthropology and of African & African-American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. 

Professor Emmett Price received his Ph.D. in Music from the University of Pittsburg. From 2000 to 2001 he was an African-American Postdoctoral Scholar in the African & Afro-American Studies Program at Washington University in St. Louis. Currently, he is the Chair of African-American Studies Department and an Associate Professor of Music at Northeastern University.  He is the author of Hip-Hop Culture, and editor of The Black Church, the Hip-Hop Culture and the Dilemma of the Generational Divide. He has published his work in African American Review, Ethnomusicology, and The Boston Herald.

Professor Nancy Kwang-Johnson received her Ph.D. in Department of Government from Cornell University. From 2002 to 2003, she was an African-American Postdoctoral Scholar in the African & Afro-American Studies Program at Washington University in St. Louis.  Currently, she is an Associate Professor of Political Science and International relations at the University of New York-Tirana in Albania.  She previously taught at Western Illinois University.

Professor Rebecca Ginsburg received her Ph.D. in Architectural History from the University of California, Berkeley. From 2002 to 2004 she was an African-American Postdoctoral Scholar in the African & Afro-American Studies Program at Washington University in St. Louis. Currently she is an Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of At Home with Apartheid.

Professor April Langley received her Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Notre Dame. From 2003 to 2005 she was an African-American Postdoctoral Scholar in the African & Afro-American Studies Program at Washington University in St. Louis. Currently, she is a Professor of English at the University of Missouri, Columbia.  She is the author of The Black Aesthetic Unbound: Theorizing the Dilemma of and Eighteenth-Century African-American Literature.

Professor J. Cameron Monroe received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of California, Los Angeles. From 2004 to 2006 he was a Postdoctoral Fellow in African & African-American Studies at Washington University St. Louis. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California Santa Cruz.

Dr. Iyabo Osiapem received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Georgia.  From 2005 to 2007 she was a Postdoctoral Fellow in African & African-American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis.  Currently, she is a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at the College of William and Mary.

Professor Sonja Stephenson Watson received her Ph.D. in Modern Languages (Spanish) from the University of Tennessee.  She was a Postdoctoral Fellow in African & African-American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis from 2005 to 2007. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of Texas, Arlington.

Dr. Daniel Mains received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from Emory University. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow in African & African-American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis from 2007 to 2009. He is currently a Faculty Fellow at Colby College in the department of Anthropology.  He is working on a book entitled Hope is Cut: Youth, Unemployment, and The Future in Urban Ethiopia.

Professor Amina Gautier received her Ph.D. in Creative Writing from University of Pennsylvania.  She was a Postdoctoral Fellow in African & African-American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis from 2007 to 2009.  She currently is an Assistant Professor of English at DePaul University.

Professor Sasha Turner received her Ph.D. in History from Cambridge University. She was a Postdoctoral Fellow in African & African-American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis from 2009-2010. She is currently an Assistant Professor of History at Quinnipiac University.

Dr. Rose Wilkerson received her Ph.D. in linguistics from Indiana University. She was a Postdoctoral Fellow in African & African-American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis from 2009-2011.  She is currently a Visiting Lecturer in the Linguistics Department at University of California-Berkeley.

Dr. Ashley Evans Taylor earned her PhD in Developmental Psychology at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in July 2011. Her dissertation, The Relation of Gendered Discrimination Experiences to Achievement Outcomes Among Black College Students, focuses on the intersection of gender and race in the educational experiences of African-American adolescents and young adults. She was a Postdoctoral Fellow in African & African-American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis for the 2011-2013 terms. She is currently an Associate Professor  at Georgia College & State University in the Department of Psychological Science.

Dr. Jonathan Fenderson earned his PhD in Afro-American Studies from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst in 2011. He was a Pre-Doctoral Fellow at the Carter G Woodson Institute for African & African-American Studies at the University of Virginia. His dissertation, Journey Towards a Black Aesthetic: Hoyt Fuller, the Black Arts Movement, and the Intellectual Community, provides a thorough interdisciplinary rethinking of the Black Arts Movement and the cultural side of the Black Power period in American history. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow in African & African-American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis for the 2011-2013 terms. He is currently an Assistant Professor of African & African-American Studies at Washington University.

Dr. Monique Bedasse earned her PhD in History from the University of Miami in 2010. She specializes in Modern African History, with related fields in African American and Caribbean History. Monique was a Postdoctoral Fellow in African & African-American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis for the 2013-2015 terms. She is currently an Assistant Professor of History at Washington University in St. Louis.

Dr. Karyn Stewart earned her PhD in Sociology from Syracuse University in 2013. She specializes in Medical Sociology/Sociology of Health, Racial Health Disparities, Maternal and Child Health, Health Policy, Race/Ethnic Relations, Black Diaspora Studies, and Intragroup Differences Among Blacks. Karyn was a Postdoctoral Fellow in African & African-American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis for the 2013-2015 terms. She is currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Division of Public Health Sciences at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

Dr. Maryan Soliman earned her PhD in History from the University of Pennsylvania in 2014. She specializes in the race politics of social movements in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Maryan was a Postdoctoral Fellow in African & African-American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis for the 2015-2016 term. She is currently an Assistant Professor at the Claremont University Consortium, Intercollegiate Department of Africana Studies.

Dr. Jordache Ellapen earned his PhD in American Studies from Indiana University, Bloomington. He specializes in Queer Diaspora Studies, Film Studies, and Visual Culture Studies. Jordache was a Postdoctoral Fellow in African & African-American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis for the 2015-2017 terms. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Oregon, Department of English.