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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
POT 17th Floor
Associate Professor
African American history, African American women, Film and Visual Studies, Photography
1723 Patterson Office Tower
859-257-1868
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
201A Lafferty Hall
859 257-2796
Associate Professor
University of Kentucky College of Law Law Building 620 South Limestone Lexington, KY 40506
859-257-8352
Assistant Professor
College of Education
Black Education, Black Reparatory Literacies, Community-Engaged/Participatory Action Research, Black Intellectual Tradition
347 Dickey Hall
(859) 257-2371
Professor and Interim Chair, Department of History
Director, Commonwealth Institute for Black Studies
African-American History since 1865, Women's and Gender History, Biography, Intellectual History, political history
1715 Patterson Office Tower
859-257-1731, 859-257-2284
Associate Professor
South African history; microhistory; public history, African History, Digital Humanities, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Human Rights, data visualization, Virtual and Augmented Reality, new military history
1749 Patterson Office Tower
steve.davis@uky.edu
Assistant Professor
African American Rhetoric, Literacy Studies, Civil Rights & Black Power Movements, Rhetorical History, Rhetorical Education, Prison Studies
1335 Patterson Office Tower
(859) 218-0690
Assistant Professor
African Diaspora, film and media studies, Contemporary Africa and Post-colonial/Decolonial Theories, Global South Studies, Brazil and Latin America, Gender and ethnic identity, ethnography, African African American and Caribbean Literature and Culture, Film, Multicultural American literature
1331 Patterson Office Tower
(859) 257-4376
Assistant Professor
Disasters and Crises, Black Ecologies, Emergency Management and Response, Mapping and GIS, International Development, Anthropology of the State, Black Feminist Theory, Narrative Research, Embodiment and Exposure
208 Lafferty Hall
Associate Professor
Director, Faculty Learning Community on eSports and Gaming
digital feminism, Video Games, intersectionality, Black cyberfeminism, ethnography, Critical Discourse Analysis, digital media
Associate Professor
Black Feminist Theory, Black Girlhood Studies, Black Visual Culture, 20th and 21st Century Cultural Studies
Breckinridge Hall
Assistant Professor
African American Literature, African African American and Caribbean Literature and Culture, 20th Century Women's Narrative, gender and race, Black Queer Studies
1369 Patterson Office Tower
Associate Professor, Gender and Women's Studies
Black Feminism, Women and Social Movements, Comparative Politics, Women and Feminisms in Southern Africa
105A Breckinridge Hall
(859) 323-8185
Full 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, Gender and Women's Studies, digital studies, technology, Twentieth and Twenty-First Century American Literature and Culture, African African American and Caribbean Literature and Culture, Creative Writing, Women's Literature and Gender Studies, Literary Theory, Race Theory
1225 POT
Associate Professor of History and African American & Africana Studies
Director, Central Kentucky Slavery Initiative
Patterson Office Tower 1751
(859)-257-4346
Associate Professor
African History, African Diaspora, Atlantic History, French Empire, Women, Gender and Sexuality
1767 Patterson Office Tower
859-257-4343
Librarian I (full professor)
African American history, Book and Library History, Gender and Women's Studies
403 M. I. King Library
(859) 257-6042
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, Postcolonial and Global Literature
1261 Patterson Office Tower
257-6964
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
102A Lafferty Hall (Anthropology)
(859)-257-4654
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
Taylor Education Building, 143 B
(859) 257-2540
Professor and Director of Secondary Education
Critical Race Theory, Critical Whiteness Studies, emotionality, teacher education, motherscholar, Race & racism
Dickey Hall 343
Assistant Professor
Alternative food movements, Sustainable Agriculture, Black geographies, race and racism, spirituality and religion
853 Patterson Office Tower
859-257-6057
(she/her)
Associate Professor
Director of Equity & Inclusion Initiatives (CELT)
Creative Writing, African American Literature and Culture, Postcolonial and Global Anglophone Literature, Women's Literature and Gender Studies, Literary Theory, African Literature & Film
1251 Patterson Office Tower
Associate Professor
Classics, African American & Africana Studies, Gender & Women Studies, Ancient Greek Philosophy
Hellenistic Poetry, Greek and Latin literature, Caribbean Culture and Literature, race studies and racial formation, Imperial Greek Literature, Slavery, Ancient Philosophy
1077 Patterson Office Tower
Associate Professor
Director, International Studies
Modern African History; Migration; Refugees, Border Studies; Informal Economies
1701 Patterson Office Tower
859-257-1861
Assistant Professor
the carceral state, racial capitalism, social movements and grassroots organizing, prison abolition, Black geographies, feminist and queer politics, Louisiana, critical urban studies
851 Patterson Office Tower
Robert E. Harding, Jr. Associate Professor of Law
620 S. Limestone
859-323-1061, 859-257-2284 (AAAS)
Assistant Professor
(Ah-lay-nah Ses-mah)
historical archaeology, cultural heritage; collective memory, archaeological ethnography, public and community archaeology, African Diaspora, The Bahamas, slavery and emancipation
216 Lafferty Hall
859 257 1051
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
1015 Patterson Office Tower
859-257-7016
Professor
African American history, Race and Sports, Black Freedom Struggle, African American Education, Kentucky African American history
1773 Patterson Office Tower
Associate Professor, Gender and Women's Studies
206 Breckinridge Hall
859-257-9205
Professor
T. Marshall Hahn Jr. Professor
19th Century U.S. South, Civil War and Reconstruction, slavery and emancipation, Race and Gender, Public History
1703 Patterson Office Tower
859-257-1726
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
FA 201
(859) 257-1398
Professor
Poetry and Poetics, Fiction, African American Cinema, Affrilachia, Diversity in Comics and Graphic Novels, Playwriting and Black Theater, Creative Writing
1237 Patterson Office Tower
859-257-1035
Assistant Professor, College of Social Work
Black LGBTQ+, mental health, well-being, community, belongingness, Identity and Intersectionality
671 Patterson Office Tower
(859)-257-6660
Assistant Professor
Literacy Studies, Maternal Incarceration, Cultural Rhetorics, Women's Rhetorics, Feminist Mothering Practices
1329 Patterson Office Tower
859-562-0425
Professor of History and African American and Africana Studies
1707 Patterson Office Tower
Professor
Creative Writing, Non-Fiction Writing
1229 Patterson Office Tower
email contact preferred
Associate Professor
Colonial Through Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture, Women's Literature and Gender Studies, Black Girlhood Studies, African American Literature and Culture, Black Print Culture Studies, African African American and Caribbean Literature and Culture
1321 Patterson Office Tower
301-257-4401
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