Ph.D. Candidate, Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies
2020-2021 Fellow - Memory Keeper, poet, ancestral priest in the Yoruba Orisa tradition, healing facilitator, and doula. She is the founding director of The Graduate Mentoring Center.
Associate Chair and Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre, Drama and Contemporary Dance
2021-2023 Fellow - Selene Carter, MFA, is a dance maker and scholar specializing in improvisation and somatic dance. Her work in anti-racist education includes performances, publications, and workshops.
Ruth N. Halls Associate Professor of History and Gender Studies
2020-2021 Fellow - Doctorate in US History from Rutgers University with minors in African American History and Women’s History and specializes in the History of Black Women in the Slave South.
Lecturer, African American and African Diaspora Studies
2021-2023 Fellow - Candis Driver Smith, Ph.D., is a Lecturer in the Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies. She earned her doctorate in English with a Certificate in African Studies from Michigan State University.
