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Kevin Rigby, Jr.
Today’s conversation is with Kevin Rigby, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of African American Studies at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His research is concerned…
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Ifetayo Flannery
Today’s conversation is with Ifetayo Flannery, who teaches in the Department of Africology and African American Studies at Temple University. Her research focuses on Black…
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Tanisha M. Jackson
Today’s conversation is with Tanisha M. Jackson, who teaches in the Department of African American Studies at Syracuse University where she is also Executive Director of the…
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Robert Robinson
Today’s conversation is with Robert P. Robinson, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and Gender Studies at John Jay College and Doctoral Faculty in Urban Education,…
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Melanie Holmes
Today’s conversation is with Melanie Holmes, who teaches in the Department of African American Studies at University of South Carolina. Her research focuses on the…
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Yomaira Figueroa-Vásquez
Today’s conversation is with Yomaira Figueroa-Vásquez, who teaches in the Department of Africana, Puerto Rican, and Latino Studies at Hunter College, where she also serves as Director of…
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Desiree Cooper
Today’s conversation is with Desiree Cooper, a 2015 Kresge Artist Fellow, Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist, former attorney, and editor of the groundbreaking 2026 anthology, Black Summers: Growing…
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Michelle B. Taylor
Today’s conversation is with Michelle B. Taylor, an educator, author, and advocate who writes under the name Feminista Jones. She has published widely in popular and scholarly…
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Joanna Cardenas
Today’s conversation is with Joanna Cardenas, a doctoral candidate in the Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies at University of California, Berkeley. Her…
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Justin Leroy
Today’s conversation is with Justin Leroy, who teaches in the Department of History at Duke University. He specializes in nineteenth-century African American history, with particular…
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Kaiama Glover
Today’s conversation is with Kaiama L. Glover, professor of Black Studies and French at Yale University. She is the author of A Regarded Self: Caribbean Womanhood…
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Imani Perry
Today’s conversation is with Imani Perry, who teaches in the Departments of African and African American Studies and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Harvard…
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Kinitra Brooks
Today’s conversation is with Kinitra Brooks, Associate Chair of Graduate Studies and the Audrey and John Leslie Endowed Chair in Literary Studies in the Department…
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andré carrington
Today’s conversation is with andré carrington, who teaches in the Department of English at University of California, Riverside. He has published extensively on literature and the…
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Kyra Gaunt
Today’s conversation is with Kyra Gaunt, who teaches in the Department of Music and Theater at State University of New York, Albany. She has published…
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LeRhonda Manigault-Bryant
Today’s conversation is with LeRhonda Manigault-Bryant, who teaches in the Department of African, African American, and Diaspora Studies at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill where…
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Crystal Feimster
Today’s conversation is with Crystal N. Feimster, Associate Professor of African American Studies and History and affiliated faculty in American Studies and Women’s, Gender, and…
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Maya Doig-Acuña
Today’s conversation is with Maya Doig-Acuña, doctoral candidate in the Department of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. Her work is invested in…
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Willie J. Wright
Today’s conversation is with Dr. Willie Jamaal Wright who is a Research Fellow within the Institute of Urban and Regional Research and Planning at the…
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Mark Sanders
Today’s conversation is with Mark Sanders, who teaches in the Departments of Africana Studies and English at University of Notre Dame. He is the author…
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Jocelyn Brown
Today’s conversation is with Jocelyn Brown, Assistant Professor of African American Studies at Ohio University with training in gerontology, applied sociology, and applied psychology. Originally…
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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