Affiliated Graduate Faculty
Name | Title | Disciplinary Training or Approach | Expertise |
Associate Professor of WGSS | Feminist Studies and Romance Studies | The disorienting effects of the queer and transgender past on politicized fields of scholarship | |
Professor of Music | Music Theory | Black music and race | |
Charles Howard Candler Professor of History (Oxford College) | History | 20th-century Civil Rights in the U.S. South | |
Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and Creative Writing | Creative Writing | Creative writing, race, and African American literature | |
Professor of Sociology | Sociology | Ontologies of race, racialization, and racism | |
Professor of History | History | West Central Africa during the era of the transatlantic slave trade, including the history of slavery; forced migration and labor; the South Atlantic world; and the African diaspora | |
Associate Professor of History | History | Atlantic history; Cuba in world history; race; slavery and the law; the African diaspora; public history | |
Associate Professor of WGSS | History | Cuban and Comparative Atlantic Slavery; Transnational Black Feminism; Black Women's Histories & Cultural Production; the Caribbean and Latin American History; Global Black Feminist Movements; Political and Social Movements in the African Diaspora; Black Cultural Studies | |
Assistant Professor of Theatre & Dance | Theatre Studies | African American theatre, multi-modal performance, directing, non-western approaches to dramaturgy, eco-theatre (theatre and ecological crises and sustainability), the self-in performance and new play development | |
James T. and Berta R. Laney Professor in Moral Leadership (Candler) | Ethics and Religion | Social ethics, psychology and African American religion | |
Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the James Weldon Johnson Institute | Political Science | African American politics, particularly the politics of the post–Civil Rights generation of leadership, and political participation | |
Associate Professor of History & Director of Jewish Studies | History | American Jewish history and culture, modern Jewish history, American social and cultural history | |
Associate Professor of American Religious History (Candler) | History | American religions as they relate to politics, wealth and poverty, race and ethnicity, the environment, and the modern rural South | |
| Associate Professor (Nursing) | Nursing & Bioethics | Health disparities, social, and cultural factors that influence health, and the coping strategies used among older African American cancer survivors and their families |
Charles Howard Candler Professor of English & Creative Writing | Creative Writing | Creative writing, race, and African American literature | |
Assistant Professor of Philosophy | Philosophy | Intersection of 20th century continental philosophy, the critical philosophy of race (particularly Black critical theory), contemporary critical theory, and the environmental humanities | |
Andrew W. Mellon Faculty Fellow in Law and the Humanities & Associate Professor of History | American Studies, History | Intersections of American legal and cultural history, criminology, and literary studies | |
Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Rollins) | Epidemiology | Health, psychology/psychosocial epidemiology, with an emphasis on cardiovascular health in African American women | |
Professor of French & Italian | French, Comparative Literature | Francophone and Anglophone literature, culture, theory, and aesthetics of the Americas (Greater Caribbean, U.S. South) | |
Assistant Professor of History | History | Slavery, capitalism, and the law in the 19th-century United States | |
Professor of Political Science | Political Science | Urban politics; state and local politics; the politics of criminal punishment; governance and public policy processes; religion and politics; and African American politics | |
Associate Professor in the Practice of Sociology of Religion and Culture; Director of Black Church Studies (Candler) | Sociology, Religion | Religion and culture, race, ethnicity and gender, cultural anthropology with a focus on ethnographic research, and ritual performances of religion | |
Assistant Professor of Film & Media Studies & Director of Production | Film Studies | Criminalization of Black girls in schools, among other themes | |
Associate Professor of Sociology | Sociology | Quantitative approaches to racism studies; empirical links between the political economy of race and racial health and healthcare disparities using policing and housing policy data | |
Professor of WGSS | Philosophy | Continental and political philosophy, legal and critical race theory and philosophy of race, post-colonial, theory, and subaltern and gender studies | |
Associate Professor of Film & Media Studies | Media Studies | Black presences in visual culture | |
Andrew W. Mellon Faculty Fellow for Nursing and the Humanities (Nursing) | History | History of psychiatry, history of nursing, racism and civil rights in health care | |
Associate Professor of History | History | 20th-century U.S. history, African American urban history, histories of crime and punishment, the carceral state, sport history, and histories of childhood and youth | |
Assistant Professor of History | History | United States in the Pacific World; Asian American History; Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity; the Progressive Era | |
Professor of History | History | African American history, history of the American South, History of the United States since Reconstruction, violence and extremism, historical memory | |
Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Philosophy | Philosophy | Critical philosophy of race, critical whiteness studies, critical phenomenology (especially, on racial embodiment), and philosophy of the Black experience |