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Associate Professor of History and African American and Africana Studies
Latin American and Caribbean History, esp. Cuba (19th/20th century), Africana Studies, Afro-Latinx Studies, Transnational Black Feminisms, Afro-Latin America |
devyn.benson@uky.edu
POT 17th Floor, 1759 Patterson Office Tower
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Associate Professor
African American history, African American women, Film and Visual Studies, Photography |
nikki.brown@uky.edu
1723 Patterson Office Tower,
859-257-1868 |
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Professor of Anthropology, Past Chair (2016-2021) Anthropology Dept., Past Editor (2011-2015), Economic Anthropology (Wiley Blackwell Journal)
Political Ecology, Sustainability and Environmental Change, Household Political Economy, Kinship-Family and Social Organization, Sub-Saharan Africa, Zambia, Gwembe Tonga Research Project, Qualitative Methods, Digital Data Management, gender, aging and life course, livelihoods, Migration and New Land Settlement, Politcal Economy |
lisa.cliggett@uky.edu
201A Lafferty Hall
859 257-2796 |
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Associate Professor
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blanche.cook@uky.edu
University of Kentucky College of Law Law Building 620 South Limestone Lexington, KY 40506
859-257-8352 |
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Assistant Professor, College of Education
Black Education, Black Reparatory Literacies, Community-Engaged/Participatory Action Research, Black Intellectual Tradition |
thais.council@uky.edu
347 Dickey Hall
(859) 257-2371 |
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Associate Professor, Director, African American & Africana Studies
African-American History since 1865, Women's and Gender History, Family History, Biography |
a.curwood@uky.edu
1715 Patterson Office Tower, 102 Breckinridge Hall
859-257-6857, 859-257-2284 |
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Associate Professor
South African history; microhistory; public history, Digital Humanities, graphic history, new military history |
steve.davis@uky.edu
1749 Patterson Office Tower
steve.davis@uky.edu |
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Assistant Professor
African American Rhetoric, Literacy Studies, Civil Rights & Black Power Movements, Rhetorical History, Prison Writing, Rhetorical Education |
bmerby@uky.edu
1335 Patterson Office Tower
(859) 218-0690 |
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Assistant Professor
African African American and Caribbean Literature and Culture, African History; Migrations Within and Out of Africa; Diaspora Studies; Refugees; Border Studies; Informal Economies, (Post)colonialism, colonial, Film |
kamahra.ewing@uky.edu
1331 Patterson Office Tower
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Assistant Professor
Disasters and Crises, Ecological Futures, Emergency Management and Response, Risk and Social Vulnerability, Mapping and GIS, International Development, Anthropology of the State, Black Feminist Theory, Narrative Research, Digital Humanities |
crystal.felima@uky.edu
208 Lafferty Hall
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Associate Professor, College of Medicine
Health inequities among African Americans;, Racism & Race-related Stress, Political and Social Determinants of Health, Cultural Humility |
afern2@uky.edu
103 Medical Behavioral Science Building
859-323-4679 |
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Associate Professor, Director, Faculty Learning Community on eSports and Gaming
digital feminism, Video Games, intersectionality, Black cyberfeminism, ethnography, Critical Discourse Analysis, digital media |
unicorn@uky.edu
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Assistant Professor
Black Feminist Theory, Black Girlhood Studies, Black Visual Culture, 20th and 21st Century Cultural Studies |
a.halliday@uky.edu
212 Breckinridge Hall
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Assistant Professor
African American Literature, African African American and Caribbean Literature and Culture, 20th Century Women's Narrative, gender and race, Black Queer Studies |
regina.hamilton@uky.edu
1369 Patterson Office Tower
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Associate Professor, Gender and Women's Studies
Black Feminism, Women and Social Movements, Comparative Politics, Women and Feminisms in Southern Africa |
frances.henderson@uky.edu
105A Breckinridge Hall
(859) 323-8185 |
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Associate Professor of Creative writing, English and African American Studies, Faculty Affiliate for Writing, Rhetoric and Digitial Studies , Faculty Affiliate for African American Studies, Faculty Affiliate for Gender and Women's Studies, Commonwealth Institute for Black Studies
Environmental Studies, 20th & 21st Century American Culture and Literature, Creative Writing in Digital Spaces, Gender and Women's Studies, digital studies, technology |
damaris.hill@uky.edu
1225 POT
(859) 257-7006 |
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Associate Professor of History and African American & Africana Studies, Director, Central Kentucky Slavery Initiative
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vanessaholden@uky.edu
Patterson Office Tower 1751
(859)-257-4346 |
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Associate Professor
African History, African Diaspora, Atlantic History, French Empire, Women, Gender and Sexuality |
HilaryJones@uky.edu
1767 Patterson Office Tower
859-257-4343 |
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Librarian I (full professor)
African American history, Book and Library History, Gender and Women's Studies |
rjones@uky.edu
403 M. I. King Library
(859) 257-6042 |
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William J. and Nina B. Tuggle Chair in English
Twentieth and Twenty-First Century British Literature and Culture, African African American and Caribbean Literature and Culture |
pjkall2@uky.edu
1261 Patterson Office Tower
257-6964 |
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Associate Professor
Africana Studies, cultural anthropology, race and racism, African Diaspora, Religion, Human Rights, Statelessness, migration, Haiti, Haitian Studies, Haitian Protestantism, antiracist movements, The Bahamas, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Anti-Haitianism |
bertin.louis@uky.edu
102A Lafferty Hall (Anthropology)
(859)-257-4654 |
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Lyman T. Johnson Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation
African American Higher Education, Black Feminisms, Coping with anti-Black gendered racism, Black Mental Health, Postcolonial/Decolonial Studies |
leanna.luney@uky.edu
Taylor Education Building, 143 B
(859) 257-2540 |
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Professor and Director of Secondary Education
Critical Race Theory, Critical Whiteness Studies, emotionality, teacher education, motherscholar, Race & racism |
cheryl.matias@uky.edu
Dickey Hall 343
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Assistant Professor
Alternative food movements, Sustainable Agriculture, Black geographies, race and racism, spirituality and religion |
priscilla.mccutcheon@uky.edu
853 Patterson Office Tower
859-257-6057 |
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(she/her), Associate Professor, Director of Equity & Inclusion Initiatives (CELT)
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shauna.morgan@uky.edu
1251 Patterson Office Tower
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Associate Professor, Classics, African American & Africana Studies, Gender & Women Studies
Hellenistic Poetry, Greek and Latin literature, Caribbean Culture and Literature, race studies and racial formation, Imperial Greek Literature |
jmu245@uky.edu
1077 Patterson Office Tower
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Associate Professor
Modern African History; Migration; Refugees, Border Studies; Informal Economies |
fmu223@uky.edu
1701 Patterson Office Tower
859-257-1861 |
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Assistant Professor
the carceral state, racial capitalism, social movements and grassroots organizing, prison abolition, Black geographies, feminist and queer politics, Louisiana, critical urban studies |
Lydia.Pelot-Hobbs@uky.edu
851 Patterson Office Tower
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Robert E. Harding, Jr. Associate Professor of Law
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mjpric2
620 S. Limestone
859-323-1061, 859-257-2284 (AAAS) |
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Assistant Professor
historical archaeology, cultural heritage; collective memory, archaeological ethnography, public and community archaeology, African Diaspora, The Bahamas, slavery and emancipation |
elenasesma@uky.edu
216 Lafferty Hall, Office hours Tuesdays 3:30-4:30pm or by appointment
859 257 1051 |
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Assistant Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies, and French and Francophone Studies
Maghrebi literature and culture, Colonial and post-colonial studies, Literature and culture of Muslim Spain, urban space, Cultural memory studies, Gender studies, feminist geography, Film and visual culture |
nslitine@uky.edu
1015 Patterson Office Tower
859-257-7016 |
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Professor
African American history, Race and Sports, Black Freedom Struggle, African American Education, Kentucky African American history |
glsmit01@uky.edu
1773 Patterson Office Tower
859-257-1357 |
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Associate Professor, Gender and Women's Studies
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melissa.stein@uky.edu
206 Breckinridge Hall
859-257-9205 |
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Professor, T. Marshall Hahn Jr. Professorship
19th Century U.S. South, Civil War and Emancipation, Public History, Race and Gender, family |
amtaylor1@uky.edu
1703 Patterson Office Tower
859-257-1726 |
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Associate Professor, School of Art and Visual Studies
African architectural histories, Artists in contemporary Africa, African cultural heritage and art history, Reception of African art |
m.b.visona@uky.edu
FA 201
(859) 257-1398 |
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Professor
Poetry and Poetics, Fiction, African American Cinema, Affrilachia, Diversity in Comics and Graphic Novels, Playwriting and Black Theater, Creative Writing |
fxw2@uky.edu
1237 Patterson Office Tower
859-257-1035 |
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Assistant Professor, College of Social Work
Black LGBTQ+, mental health, well-being, community, belongingness, Identity and Intersectionality |
keithjwatts@uky.edu
671 Patterson Office Tower
(859)-257-6660 |
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Assistant Professor
Literacy Studies, Maternal Incarceration, Cultural Rhetorics, Women's Rhetorics, Feminist Mothering Practices |
jwells@uky.edu
1329 Patterson Office Tower, Office Hours: W, TH 1-2pm
859-562-0425 |
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Professor of History and African American and Africana Studies
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Derrick.White@uky.edu
1707 Patterson Office Tower
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Associate Professor
Creative Writing |
crystal.wilkinson@uky.edu
1229 Patterson Office Tower
email contact preferred |
