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Matthew Simmons
Today’s conversation is with Matthew Simmons, who teaches in the Program in African American Studies at University of Alabama, Birmingham. His work focuses on Black voting…
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Blair LM Kelley
Today’s discussion is with Blair LM Kelley, who is Joel R. Williamson Distinguished Professor of Southern Studies at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill…
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Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Today’s discussion is with Alexis Pauline Gumbs, a scholar and poet living and working in Durham, North Carolina. In addition to a number of scholarly…
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Kelli Morgan
Today’s conversation is with Kelli Morgan, who is Founding Executive Director of the Black Artists Archive in Detroit, Michigan. She earned her doctorate in Afro-American Studies at…
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Charles Athanasopoulos
Today’s conversation is with Charles Athanasopoulos, who teaches in the Department of African American and African Studies at Ohio State University. He is the author of…
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Marisa Parham
Today’s conversation is with Marisa Parham, who teaches in the Department of English at University of Maryland where she is also Director of African American and Experimental Digital Humanities and Associate…
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Kesewa John
Today’s conversation is with Kesewa John, who teaches in the Department of History at Goldsmiths University in London, England. Her scholarship addresses the complex intersections of…
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Serie McDougal
Today’s conversation is with Serie McDougal, who teaches in the Department of Pan-African Studies at California State University, Los Angeles. He is the author of Research Methods…
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Marlene Daut
Today’s conversation is with Marlene Daut, who teaches in the Departments of French and African American Studies at Yale University. Along with numerous articles in…
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Charlene Carruthers
Today’s conversation is with Charlene Carruthers, who is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Black Studies at Northwestern University. She is a writer, filmmaker, and…
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Michele Reid-Vazquez
Today’s conversation is with Michele Reid-Vazquez, who teaches in the Department of Africana Studies at Bowdoin College. Along with numerous scholarly articles, she is the…
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Courtney R. Baker
Today’s conversation is with Courtney Baker, who teaches in the Department of English at University of California, Riverside. Along with numerous articles in public and…
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Alexander Weheliye
Today’s discussion is with Alexander Weheliye, who teaches in the Department of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. He is the author of numerous…
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LaTaSha Levy
This is John Drabinski and you’re listening to The Black Studies podcast, a Mellon grant sponsored series of conversations examining the history of the field.…
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Stacie McCormick
Today’s discussion is with Stacie McCormick, who teaches in the Department of English, Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies, and Women and Gender Studies at Texas…
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Derrick White
Today’s conversation is with Derrick White, who teaches in the Department of African American and Africana Studies at University of Kentucky. He has published widely on…
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Jeffrey Ogbar
Today’s discussion is with Jeffery Ogbar, who teaches in the Department of History at the University of Connecticut where he is also the founding Director…
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Ashley Smith-Purviance
Today’s conversation is with Ashley Smith-Purviance, who teaches in the Department of African American and African Studies at Ohio State University. Her work is focused…
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Ashley Newby, Brie Gorrell, John E. drabinski
Today’s conversation is between Ashley Newby, Brie Gorrell, and John Drabinski, hosts of The Black Studies Podcast, reflecting on the 100th episode and what the…
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Sharon P. Holland
Today’s conversation is with Sharon P. Holland, who teaches in the Department of American Studies at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Along with numerous articles and…
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Marisa Fuentes
Today’s discussion is with Marisa Fuentes, who teaches in the departments of History and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Rutgers University. Her research interests are…
The Black Studies Podcast (2024 – present)
The Black Studies Podcast began as a Mellon grant supported project to document key voices in the history and future of the field of Black Studies. Founded by Ashley Newby and John E. Drabinski in the Department of Africana Studies at University of Maryland, the podcast has since developed into a long term project archiving the diverse, varied perspectives that comprise Black Studies as an area of inquiry and its critical methods.
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