Alumni

Natoschia Scruggs

Psychology, Group on International Perspectives on Governmental Aggression and Peace (GIPGAP)

Natoschia Scruggs, M.A., Ph.D., received her Ph.D. in African Diaspora Studies from the University of California, Berkeley; her BA in international studies from York College of Pennsylvania, and her MA in political science with a focus on African studies from Boston University. She was a Fulbright Fellow in Egypt and has lived in or traveled through ten African nations. Natoschia authored the Egypt chapter in State Violence and the Right to Peace: An International Survey of the Views of Ordinary People Greenwood Publishing Group / Praeger series...

Rashad Timmons

Rashad Timmons graduated from Michigan State University with a B.A. and M.A. in Journalism, specializing in African American and African Studies. His work broadly explores Black being and participation in online communities. More specifically, he is interested in how digital performances of Blackness trouble subjective embodiment and disrupt spatial-temporal logics of being.

Elisa Joy White

Associate Professor, UC Davis

Elisa Joy White is an Associate Professor of African Diaspora Studies, Black European Studies, New Diaspora Communities, New Media Studies at University of California, Davis. She completed a PhD in African Diaspora Studies at the University of California at Berkeley, where she also received a MA in African American Studies. She also holds a MA in Media Studies from the New School University and a BA in Theatre from Spelman College. Her research interests and publications include lesser-examined African Diaspora sites, Black European Studies, the social and cultural dimensions of...

Ronald Williams II

Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Ronald Williams II is assistant professor of African, African American, and Diaspora Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Before joining the faculty at Carolina, Ronald was a lecturer here in the Department of African American Studies, where he taught African American politics, race and public policy, and college writing. Grounded in a curiosity about the interplay between race and politics, Ronald’s research interests include African American politics and political thought, race and public policy, African Diaspora politics, race and U.S. foreign relations, and...

Erin N. Winkler

Department of African & African Diaspora Studies - Associate Professor

Effects of racism on individuals, communities, and society; Racial identity development and well-being in children and adolescents; African American families; Qualitative research methods in Africology; Sociology of African American communities; Race and place (nationally and internationally).

Research

Racial socialization; Racial identity development in African American families and communities; The impact of gender, skin tone, and other demographic factors on racial identity development and responses to racism; The effect of place on shaping...

Lisa Ze Winters

Associate Professor, Wayne State

African American and African Diaspora literatures; race & racialization; visual culture, cultural studies

Olivia K. Young

Olivia K. Young is a doctoral candidate in The Department of African Diaspora Studies at The University of California, Berkeley with a designated emphasis in Women, Gender and Sexuality. Her dissertation foregrounds notions of distortion within the work of black female artists from the onset of feminist art movements of the 1960s. Her research takes seriously the interplay of visual registers with other sensory modalities and the role of performance in staging and re-staging social reality. Prior to her doctoral studies she earned her Bachelor of Arts in African American Studies and...