The Review provides a forum for the scholarly critiques; debates every aspect of Black Diaspora studies, including its mission, curricula, ideology and/or scholarly methodologies, linkages to other academic disciplines links to extra-academic communities, and its future. It is co-edited by Dr. Vernon J. Williams Jr. and Dr. Frederick L. McElroy.
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Valerie Grim
Chair, Professor
Research Interests: African American history, agricultural history, black rural communities, the black family.
Audrey T. McCluskey
Director of Graduate Studies, Professor
Research Interests: Black women’s leadership in early to mid-20th century, black women educators and organizers, black female performance culture of the early to the mid-20th century.
Frederick L. McElroy
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Associate Professor
Research Interests: Early black literature, black autobiography, black intellectual traditions, history and construction of black studies as an academic discipline.
Iris Rosa
Director of the African American Dance Company, Professor
Research/Creative Interests: Modern dance, jazz and ethnic dance, teaching and choreography.
John H. Stanfield II
Professor
Research Interests: Restorative justice, transformers of racially segmented communities and societies, coparative sociological, anthropological, and psychological thought, culturally pluralistic civic identities and practices.
Vernon J. Williams Jr.
Professor
Research Interests: African and American history; history of behavioral and social sciences; African/black diaspora history.
Adjunct faculty
Emeritus faculty
- A.B. Assensoh
- Winona Fletcher
- Herman Hudson *
- Phyllis Klotman
- John McCluskey Jr.
- James E. Mumford
- William Wiggins Jr.
* deceased
