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Areas of expertise: Archaeology, Africa and African Studies, African Diaspora, Slavery, Atlantic World, Colonialism, Geographic Information Systems, Subsaharan Africa


Biography, Education and Training

Professor J. Cameron Monroe earned a B.A. from UC Berkeley (1995), M.A. from UCLA (1999), and PhD from UCLA (2003), all degrees in Anthropology. Between 2004 and 2006, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Departments of African and African American Studies, Anthropology, and History at Washington University in St. Louis. He joined the Department of Anthropology at UC Santa Cruz in the Fall of 2006. He has participated in archaeological field research in Armenia, Belize, Bénin, Haiti, Israe... more »


Areas of expertise: Colonialism, Slavery, African Diaspora, Atlantic World, Latin American and Latino Studies, History, Race, Law and Policy, Personal and Social Identities, Spanish


Biography, Education and Training

Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin


Areas of expertise: Russia, Ethnography, Poverty, Social Justice, Socialism, African Diaspora, Food/Nutrition, European Studies, Communism


Biography, Education and Training

Harvard University, Social Anthropology, Ph.D., A.M. Indiana University, Russian and East European Studies, M.A. University of Tennessee, Russian and East European Studies, B.A.


Areas of expertise: African American / Black Studies, African Diaspora, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Critical Theory, Modernism, Poetry, Visual Culture


Biography, Education and Training

Poet and critic, David Marriott, was born and educated in England and received his Ph.D. in literature from the University of Sussex. His first book, On Black Men (Edinburgh University Press, 2000; Columbia University Press, 2000), was an interdisciplinary study of how models of selfhood come to acquire cultural recognition through the aberrant fictions of race. His second book, Haunted Life (forthcoming Rutgers University Press), extends this meditation on discourses of inwardness and the parad... more »


Areas of expertise: Slavery, African Diaspora, Atlantic World, History, Race, African American / Black Studies, World History, Digital Humanities, US History


Biography, Education and Training

Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 2006 M.A., Johns Hopkins University, 2003 B.A., Boston University, 1999


Areas of expertise: Africa and African Studies, African American / Black Studies, African Diaspora, Africana Studies, Colonialism, Film, Subsaharan Africa, Jazz


Biography, Education and Training

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison


Areas of expertise: History, European Studies, Africa and African Studies, African Diaspora, Colonialism, Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, Feminist Studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Urban studies


Biography, Education and Training

B.A., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill M.A., University of Colorado, Boulder Ph.D., Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

Nicol Claire Hammond

Nicol Claire Hammond

Associate Professor , Director of Graduate Studies, Faculty Director, Arts Research Institute

Music Department

Areas of expertise: African Diaspora, African American / Black Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Feminist Theory, Critical Theory, Marxism


Biography, Education and Training

(On sabbatical until Fall 2023) I trained in critical theory, black radical thought, and feminist theory at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where I received a Ph.D. in History of Consciousness with an emphasis in Feminist Studies and served as a founding coordinator of the Black Cultural Studies Research Cluster and the Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Graduate Collective. After two years as faculty in the Department of Ethnic Studies at th... more »

James Battle

James Battle

Associate Professor

Sociology Department

Areas of expertise: Sociology, Science and Technology, Anthropology, African Diaspora, Sociology of Development, Diversity


Biography, Education and Training

Ph.D. Medical Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley/University San Francisco, 2012


Areas of expertise: Activism, African Diaspora, Agroecology and Agriculture, Climate Change, Community Studies, Colonialism, Community-based Research, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Cultural Studies, Environmental Justice, Environmental Studies, Indigenous Peoples, International Development, Latin American and Latino Studies, Marxism, Social Justice, Sustainability, Tropical Forest


Biography, Education and Training

Dr. Juli Hazlewood is an Intercultural Geographer and activist, researcher, writer, and educator from Indiana (USA). She is Co-Founder and Executive Director of Roots & Routes IC, an organization dedicated to facilitating the sharing of cultural ways of knowing and compassion between diverse cultures en route to responsibly stewarding a flourishing living world.  For over two decades she has lived and walked with the Chachi, Awá, and Afro-descendant communities of Ecuador’s Pacific Northwes... more »


Areas of expertise: Sociology, African Diaspora, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, African American / Black Studies, Immigration, Activism, Discrimination and Inequality, Labor and Social Movements


Biography, Education and Training

PhD: Geography and Science and Technology Studies, UC Berkeley (2018) MPA: Brown University (2010) AB: International Relations and Africana Studies, Brown University (2009)

Naya Jones

Naya Jones

Assistant Professor & Core Faculty in Global and Community Health Program

Sociology Department

Areas of expertise: African Diaspora, African American / Black Studies, Environmental Studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Latin American and Latino Studies, Social Justice


Biography, Education and Training

Postdoctoral Fellowship in Primary Care Research - Medical College of Wisconsin PhD, Geography & the Environment -  University of Texas at Austin MA, Latin American Studies - University of Texas at Austin  

Thiago Mota

Thiago Mota

Assistant Professor

History Department

Areas of expertise: Africa and African Studies, African American / Black Studies, African Diaspora, Africana Studies, History, Latino/a Studies


Biography, Education and Training

Thiago H. Mota (he/him) is an Assistant Professor of African History. Fully trained in the Global South, he earned a PhD in Social History from the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil (with a cotutelle at the University of Lisbon, Portugal). During and after his doctoral studies, Dr Mota conducted research in several countries, such as Brazil, France, Gambia, Germany, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal, and Senegal, working on the early process of social spreading of Islam... more »

Lisa Marie Rollins

Lisa Marie Rollins

Assistant Professor, Playwriting and Black Drama

Department of Performance, Play & Design (PPD)

Areas of expertise: Theater, Playwriting, Direction (Theater), African Diaspora, African American / Black Studies, Feminist Theory, Writing


Biography, Education and Training

Professor Rollins (she/her) is a writer, director and new work developer. She is a Member of Dramatist Guild and Stage Directors & Choreographers. She has been a writing resident with Djerassi, Hedgebrook, CALLALOO London and more.  She received a Wallace Gerbode Playwright Award for a commission with Crowded Fire Theater for her new play KARA. She was honored with a “Bay Brilliant” Artist Award from San Francisco’s KQE... more »

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