Kimala Price is a Professor in the Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at San Diego State University (SDSU), part of the College of Arts and Letters. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science and a graduate certificate in Women’s Studies from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Since 2014, she has co-directed the Bread and Roses Center for Feminist Research and Activism at SDSU. Previously, she served as a postdoctoral research fellow at Ibis Reproductive Health and worked on the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee as a legislative fellow. Dr. Price is deeply engaged in feminist activism, reproductive justice advocacy, and policy work, with a focus on women of color. She currently serves on the board of Planned Parenthood of the Pacific Southwest and has contributed to national organizations like SisterSong and Women, Action and the Media (WAM!). Her research interests include reproductive politics, intersectional activism, visual politics, and the role of hip hop in feminist movements. Courses she teaches include Reproductive Rights and Justice, Gender, Race and Class, and Foundations in Feminist Scholarship. Dr. Price’s scholarship emphasizes linking academic work to social justice movements, particularly through narrative analysis and interdisciplinary methodologies. Her publications span over two decades, addressing topics like the intersection of race and reproductive health, queer reproductive justice, and policy narratives affecting marginalized communities. Key works include Reproductive Politics in the United States (Routledge, 2021) and influential essays on the Black fetus and intersectionality in reproductive research. Dr. Price’s activism and academic contributions aim to center the voices and needs of women of color in policy and scholarship, challenging mainstream frameworks to prioritize holistic, intersectional approaches to reproductive freedom.
Yevette Richards Jordan is an Associate Professor in African and African American Studies at George Mason University, specializing in African American history, women's history, labor studies, and Pan-Africanism. Her research examines intersections of race, gender, and labor activism within transnational contexts. Education includes: Ph.D. in American Studies, Yale University M.A. in American Studies, Yale University M.A. in African American Studies, Yale University Current research analyzes racial violence in Northern Louisiana through multigenerational family networks. Previous publications explore pan-Africanism in labor movements, gendered dimensions of transnational union work, and biographical studies of activists navigating racial and ideological constraints. Publications critically examine how racism, sexism, and anti-Communism shaped labor activism and international relations. Her books include biographical works on Maida Springer that reveal complexities in Black struggles for equality within international labor organizations. Jordan teaches specialized courses on: Race, Gender and Lynching Women's Activism from Jim Crow to Black Power Transnational Issues of Gender and Race
Christina M. Greer is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Fordham University's Lincoln Center Campus in Manhattan. With a PhD from Columbia University, her work focuses on American politics, Black ethnic politics, urban governance, and public opinion. Education: BA from Tufts University, MA/MPhil/PhD in Political Science from Columbia University Her research spans Black political behavior, racial identity, and urban policy. She has written extensively on mayors' roles in public policy, comparative criminal justice responses in Boston/Baltimore, and the impact of immigration on Black politics. Recent publications include How to Build a Democracy (2024) and Black Politics in Transition (2019). Greer actively engages public discourse through her column in The Amsterdam News and frequent media commentary. She co-hosts FAQ-NYC and explores intersections of race, gender, and political representation in her work.
Natalee Kehaulani Bauer is an associate teaching professor of Indigenous Studies at Mills College at Northeastern University (Oakland, CA) and an adjunct professor (part-time) . She is a Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) scholar with expertise in cultural studies, Indigenous feminisms, and critical whiteness studies. Her research critiques the over-disciplining of Black and Native students in U.S. schools through the lens of 'benevolent whiteness,' focusing on white women educators' roles in perpetuating settler colonial structures. Educations: PhD in Social & Cultural Studies in Education, UC Berkeley (2017) MA in Social & Cultural Studies in Education, UC Berkeley (2012) MA and BA in English & American Literature, Mills College (2007/1997) Her 2022 book Tender Violence in US Schools analyzes how 'heroic white womanhood' shapes harmful disciplinary practices in schools. Her publications span critical race theory, teacher professional development, and historical schooling dynamics. Awards: Mills College Elizabeth Siekhaus Faculty Achievement Award (2021) She has held leadership roles, including the May Treat Morrison Professorship in American History and chaired Ethnic Studies and Race Gender & Sexuality Studies at Mills College.
Dr. Andreana Clay serves as Professor of Sociology and Dean of the College of Health and Social Sciences at San Francisco State University. Her research examines youth culture, identity formation, and activism through frameworks of race, gender, sexuality, and class. Her influential book The Hip-Hop Generation Fights Back: Youth Activism and Post-Civil Rights Politics (NYU Press, 2012) analyzes how youth of color organize as activists in contemporary social movements. Scholarly articles explore hip-hop culture, queer sexuality, youth activism, and hip-hop feminism in publications including American Behavioral Scientist , Meridians , and numerous anthologies. Teaching areas include sociological theory, queer cultures, gender studies, popular culture, and youth studies. Her courses critically examine the intersections of race, class, gender, and sexuality in social structures and cultural production.
Professor Loretta Stec is a scholar of 20th-century English literature at San Francisco State University. She specializes in modernisms, southern African literature, expatriate writers in Paris, and feminist studies. Her teaching includes courses on Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein, and postcolonial African fiction, integrating feminist theory and cosmopolitan literary contexts. She serves on the Advisory Board of The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914-1945 and reviews for Twentieth-Century Literature . PhD from Rutgers University Women’s Studies Fellowship, Woodrow Wilson Foundation Former Interim Chair of Women’s Studies Department at SFSU (2004, 2006-2007) Her research spans women’s journalism in the interwar period, African narratives by British authors, and pacifist writers. Recent work focuses on Claude McKay and canonical African writers. She has held fellowships at Mt. Holyoke College’s Five College Women’s Studies Research Center.
Dan Metzger is an Associate Teaching Professor in English at Northeastern University's College of Social Sciences and Humanities (CSSH). His research focuses on improving first-year student experiences through writing instruction, applying Black feminist and Foucauldian theories to explore power dynamics in higher education and student agency. He emphasizes how intersectional identities shape learning and writing as tools for social equity. Education: EdD in Transformational Teaching and Learning, Kutztown University (2021) MA in English, University of Massachusetts Boston BA in English, Kutztown University Professional Affiliations: Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), Two-Year College English Association (TYCA), Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate (CPED), Phi Delta Kappa (PDK). Teaching: Leads First-Year Writing (ENGW 1111) , focusing on workshop-based learning, research practices, and writing across academic and public contexts. Office hours: Mondays & Wednesdays 12:30-2 PM (in-person/virtual), Mondays 5-6 PM (virtual), and by appointment. Located at 429 Lake Hall, 360 Huntington Ave, Boston.
Tatsiana Shchurko serves as Assistant Professor of Instruction and Undergraduate Studies Director in the Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. A queer feminist activist from Belarus, she brings prior teaching experience from The Ohio State University and implements bell hooks' pedagogy of freedom through collaborative, critically engaged classrooms that foster interdisciplinary social analysis. Her research centers anti-colonial feminist theory examining imperialism across Europe, Eurasia, and the United States. She investigates transnational feminist histories connecting U.S. Black women's activism with Eurasian knowledge production, exploring Black feminist solidarities that inform contemporary anti-imperialist movements. Current projects include a book supported by a 2023 ACLS Fellowship and the digital archive "The Archive Revisited: Black Feminist Internationalism and Eurasian Knowledge Production" with integrated teaching resources. Shchurko's publications reveal consistent engagement with transnational feminist theory, Black internationalism, and postsocialist studies. Her work critically analyzes Eurasian borderlands, Soviet-era encounters, and modern protests through feminist lenses, bridging historical analysis with movements like Black Lives Matter and Belarusian uprisings. This scholarship demonstrates how transnational solidarities and anti-imperialist practices emerge from interconnected global feminist struggles across temporal and geopolitical divides. She has received the following scientific awards: American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship (2023) As Undergraduate Studies Director, Shchurko oversees academic programming and student advising while curating department initiatives like the Spring 2025 "Transnational Care" event series. Her leadership integrates research innovation with pedagogical development through digital projects and cross-disciplinary teaching resources.
Kyle DeCoste (he/him) is a Visiting Assistant Professor in Gender and Sexuality Studies and Music at Tulane University, specializing in U.S. popular music with a focus on race, gender, class, and childhood intersections through ethnographic and collaborative research. His educational background includes: PhD in Ethnomusicology from Columbia University MA in Musicology from Tulane University BA in Music and Arts Administration from Bishop’s University DeCoste's research examines how popular music articulates social identities, centering Black American music through abolitionist and Black feminist frameworks. Current projects include a country rap ethnography analyzing Southern race/place dynamics and a history of New Orleans' Original Pinettes Brass Band. His publications reveal consistent exploration of music's cultural dimensions, particularly African American contexts, spanning brass band ethnographies, childhood poetics in literature, and intersectional analyses of race/gender in musical expression. His scholarly recognition includes: 2021 Zora Neale Hurston Prize (American Folklore Society) Social Justice Paper Prize (Society for Ethnomusicology) David Sanjek Prize (I.A.P.M.S. U.S. branch) Peter Narváez Prize (I.A.P.M.S. Canadian branch) Research funding has been secured from the Social Sciences and Research Council of Canada, Society for American Music, New Orleans Center for the Gulf South, and Newcomb Institute. While no formal advisees are listed, his collaborative projects with the Stooges Brass Band and Alex Blue V demonstrate community-engaged scholarship. DeCoste's work operates through deep community partnerships in New Orleans' music scene, particularly with brass bands like the Original Pinettes, blending academic research with cultural preservation efforts.
Dr. Esmeralda Arrizón-Palomera is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC), within the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. She holds a Ph.D. in English Language and Literature from Cornell University (2020) and a B.A. from Loyola Marymount University (2009). Her research focuses on U.S. Latinx and African American literature and culture, particularly examining intersections of race, gender, and migration. A central theme in her work is the role of undocumented immigrant narratives in shaping feminist thought and activism. She has published widely in academic journals such as Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies and MELUS, and her book project critiques colonial legacies in citizenship frameworks through a feminist lens. Dr. Arrizón-Palomera has taught at multiple institutions, including Cornell University, California State University Los Angeles, Boston University, and the University of Pennsylvania, covering courses on Latinx and African American literature, feminist theory, and social movements. Her scholarship bridges literary analysis with interdisciplinary concerns about legal systems, abolitionism, and decolonial futures. She has also engaged in critical book reviews that highlight marginalized voices in feminist and activist historiography. While no formal grants or awards are explicitly listed, her academic trajectory reflects a commitment to socially engaged research. She maintains affiliations with UIC’s Latin American and Latino Studies program and collaborates across disciplines to address issues of citizenship, migration, and racial justice. Her contact information includes the email earrizon@uic.edu and a physical address at the UIC campus.
Dr. Anna Fett is an Assistant Professor in Peace Studies and Black Studies at the University of Missouri's College of Arts and Science. Her research focuses on race, peacebuilding, Cold War cultural diplomacy, and youth engagement. Previously, she held a Rosenwald Postdoctoral Fellowship at Dartmouth College's Dickey Center. She earned a PhD in Peace Studies and History from the University of Notre Dame's Kroc Institute. Education: PhD in Peace Studies & History (University of Notre Dame) Her work examines transnational peace initiatives, U.S. foreign policy, and the intersection of race and global conflict resolution. Recent projects include analyzing Cold War-era youth programs and the National Conference of Christians and Jews' international role. Publications span diplomatic history and peace studies, with a focus on Cold War-era cultural exchanges and youth-driven peacebuilding. Her book project explores postwar U.S. intergroup relations programs. Teaching specialties include authoritarian societies, women and globalization, and the lived experience of war. She advises no listed students but contributes to interdisciplinary research on peacebuilding and historical memory.
Alex H. Poole is an Associate Professor in the Department of Information Science at Drexel University's College of Computing & Informatics, where he conducts interdisciplinary research at the intersection of history, archives, and digital technologies. His work examines information practices, digital curation challenges, and community-based approaches to knowledge management across cultural heritage institutions. Poole's academic foundation includes: PhD in Library and Information Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (dissertation: “Forging Our Cultural Commonwealth: the Importance of Digital Curation in the Digital Humanities”) MS in Library Science (Beta Phi Mu) from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill MA in History from Brown University BA in History (with highest honors) from Williams College His research investigates how individuals and communities interact with information systems, particularly in archival contexts, with strong emphasis on ethical digital curation and historical perspectives. Recent projects analyze the preservation of dynamic web content like online advertisements, the role of archives in social justice movements including Black community-based librarianship, and the integration of diversity, equity, and inclusion principles in archival education. Poole examines how information poverty manifests historically and how community-driven approaches can transform library and archival practice. Analysis of Poole's recent publications reveals consistent focus on contemporary challenges in archival science, including workforce sustainability for archivists, feminist history in information science, and human-centered approaches to data management. His work bridges theoretical frameworks with practical applications in digital humanities, museum studies, and community engagement, demonstrating how information practices evolve in response to technological and social changes. Key thematic threads include the ethics of preserving commercial web content, historical analysis of professional identity formation, and structural barriers to equity in information professions. Poole's scholarly contributions have earned significant recognition: ALISE/Bohdan H. Wynar Research Paper Award Donald G. Davis Award from the American Library Association Justin Winsor Prize from the ALA Jesse H. Shera Award for Distinguished Published Research from the ALA Bob Williams Research Paper Award from ASIS&T Arline Custer Memorial Award for Best Article from MARAC Theodore Calvin Pease Award from the Society of American Archivists Runner-up for Best Short Paper at the iConference Best Long Paper at the ASIS&T Annual Meeting His research has been funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and Drexel University Provost’s Office, supporting collaborative projects addressing real-world information challenges. Poole serves on editorial boards for The Library Quarterly, Information & Culture, Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, and The Electronic Library, shaping scholarly discourse across information science. While specific student advisees aren't documented in available sources, his work influences graduate archival education through curriculum development and professional standards advocacy. Within Drexel's College of Computing & Informatics, Poole collaborates with interdisciplinary teams on digital curation initiatives and community-based information projects. His research partnerships extend to libraries, archives, and cultural heritage institutions nationwide, focusing on sustainable preservation practices, ethical data management, and inclusive approaches to knowledge organization. Current work emphasizes community-driven digital humanities projects that center marginalized voices while addressing technical challenges of preserving dynamic web content.
Holly McGee is Associate Professor in Africana Studies at University of Cincinnati. She holds a Ph.D. in U.S. History from University of Wisconsin-Madison (2011), M.A. in Afro-American Studies from UW-Madison (2004), M.A. in Applied Social Science from Florida A&M University (2001), and B.A. in English from Dillard University (1999). Her research specializes in U.S. and African American history with emphases on black women's activism/intellectual history, comparative U.S./South African political activism, and 20th-century popular culture. She received the Erskine A. Peters Dissertation Year Fellowship (2010-2011). Current research focuses on a biographical oral history of South African activist Elizabeth Mafeking. Publications examine transnational activist networks, comparative race/gender perceptions, and civil rights protests at HBCUs. Her methodological approach combines archival research with oral history techniques.
Caitlin Cherry is an Assistant Professor of Painting and Printmaking at Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts. Her multidisciplinary practice integrates painting, sculpture, and digital media to explore representations of Black femininity and the commodification of art. Research interests focus on the intersection of digital manipulation, cultural critique, and art object commodification. She founded Dark Study, an online platform for radical art and theory education. Awards include prestigious residencies and fellowships supporting her innovative work exhibited at institutions like the Brooklyn Museum and Studio Museum in Harlem.
Varun Chaudhry is an Assistant Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Brandeis University. They hold a Ph.D. from Northwestern University and a B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis. Their research focuses on gender, race, sexuality, and class in U.S. nonprofit organizations and academia, emphasizing institutional critiques of racialized and gendered systems. Chaudhry’s work bridges ethnography, Black feminist thought, and queer of color critique, with publications in journals like GLQ , Signs , and Transgender Studies Quarterly . They authored Transforming Inclusion: An Organizational Guide (2018) and conducted community-based research with organizations like the Trans Resilience Fund and Bread and Roses Community Fund. Chaudhry has received awards including the 2024 Career Enhancement Fellowship and the 2022-2023 Theodore and Jane Norman Fund Award. Research Interests: Transgender studies, Black feminist thought, queer of color critique, LGBTQ advocacy, ethnography, critical university studies. Grants & Consultancy: Collaborations with the Leeway Foundation and Trans Justice Funding Project; advisory roles for cultural organizations. Chaudhry’s scholarship integrates public-facing writing with academic rigor, emphasizing transformative institutional change through intersectional frameworks.
