W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute

Robyn d’Avignon is Assistant Professor of African History at New York University. She received her Ph.D. in the Program in Anthropology and History at the University of Michigan in 2016. As the McMillan-Stewart Fellow for the 2018-2019 academic year, she...

Giuseppe “u.net” Pipitone is an independent scholar and an activist. He writes about Hip Hop culture and politics for Il Manifesto. His latest book is Stand for What! Race, Rap and Activism in the Trump era. In English, he co-authored No Half Steppin and...

WEBCAST: Shirley Moody-Turner is an associate professor of English and African American Studies at Pennsylvania State University. She teaches courses in African American literature, black print cultures, critical race studies, and folklore studies. Her...

Derron Wallace is an assistant professor of sociology and education at Brandeis University with joint affiliations in the African and African American Studies and Social Justice & Social Policy programs. He is a sociologist of race, ethnicity,and...

WEBCAST: Nicholas Rinehart is a doctoral candidate in English at Harvard University writing a dissertation on the history of enslaved testimony in the wider Atlantic world. His research has appeared in Transition, Callaloo, Journal of Social History...

Huey Copeland ​is an Associate Professor of Art History and affiliated faculty in the Critical Theory Cluster, the Gender and Sexuality Studies Program, and the Departments of African American Studies, Art Theory & Practice, and Performance Studies at...

Kinitra Brooks is the Audrey and John Leslie Endowed Chair in Literary Studies in the Department of English at Michigan State University. Professor Brooks specializes in the study of black women, genre fiction, and popular culture. She currently has two...

Antonia Lant recently stepped down as Chair of Cinema Studies at New York University. She works on problems of film style and interpretation, with special emphasis on women’s work in filmmaking, theories of art history that developed in tandem with the...

NOTE SPECIAL LOCATION Dr. Lakeyta Bonnette-Bailey, is an Associate Professor at Georgia State University in the Political Science Department. Her research interests include Hip Hop culture, political behavior, political attitudes, African-American...

WATCH LIVE WEBCAST: Leah Wright Rigueur is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. She is the author of the award-winning book, The Loneliness of the Black Republican: Pragmatic Politics and the Pursuit of...