Executive Board

Solange Ashby
Assistant Professor of Egyptology
University of California, Los Angeles

Luciana Brito
Professora de História
Universidade Federal do Recôncavo da Bahia - UFRB

Sherwin K. Bryant
Director of the Center for African and African American Studies and Associate Professor of History
Rice University

Brandon Byrd
Associate Professor of History and African American and Diaspora Studies
Vanderbilt University

James G. Cantres
Associate Professor of Africana, Puerto Rican and Latino Studies
Hunter College, City University of New York

Oscar De La Torre
Associate Professor of Africana and Latin American Studies
University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Jualynne Dodson
Emerita Professor of Sociology
Michigan State University

Aisha Finch
Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Emory University

Gissette Forte                                                                             

Vice President of Finance and Administration and CFO at 
Queensborough Community College

Harry Nii Odamtten
Associate Professor of History
Santa Clara University

Claire Oberon Garcia
Professor of English
Colorado College

Chinua Thelwell
Associate Professor of History, Africana Studies, and Asian & Pacific Islander American Studies and Director of Africana Studies
William & Mary

Michele Reid-Vazquez                                                      

Frederic Morrow Associate Professor of Latin America, Caribbean, 
and Latinx Studies and Africana Studies
Bowdoin College

Cheryl Sterling                                                                   

Associate Professor of African Studies and English
Pennsylvania State University

Dianne M. Stewart                                                                    

Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Religion and 
African Studies      
Emory University

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