Advisors

Kristina Baines

Associate Professor of Anthropology at the City University of New York (CUNY), Guttman Community College

Alexis Boylan

Associate Professor of Art History and Africana Studies | Director of Academic Affairs, Humanities Institute, University of Connecticut

Richard Brown

Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of History (Emeritus), University of Connecticut

Heide Castañeda

Professor of Anthropology, University of South Florida

Jason Chang

Associate Professor of History and Asian American Studies | Director, Asian and Asian American Studies Institute, UConn

Manisha Desai

Professor, Sociology and Asian and Asian American Studies | Department Head, Sociology, UConn

Debarchana Ghosh

Associate Professor of Geography, University of Connecticut

Golda Ginsburg

Professor of Psychiatry, University of Connecticut School of Medicine

Amy Gorin

Director, Institute for Collaboration on Health, Intervention, and Policy (InCHIP) | Professor, Psychological Sciences (Principal Investigator)

Diana Grigsby-Toussaint

Associate Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Brown University

Nancy Jacobs

Professor of History, Brown University

Jolaade Kalinowski

Assistant Professor of Human Development and Family Sciences, UConn

Kathryn Libal

Kathryn Libal

Director, Human Rights Institute | Associate Professor, Social Work and Human Rights, University of Connecticut

Michael Lynch

Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Director, Humanities Institute at the University of Connecticut | Director, New England Humanities Consortium

Samuel Martínez

Director of El Instituto | Professor of Anthropology, University of Connecticut

Emily Mendenhall

Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor, Science, Technology, and International Affairs (STIA) Program, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

Glenn Mitoma

Director, Thomas J. Dodd Research Center | Assistant Professor of Human Rights and Education, University of Connecticut

Mark Overmyer-Velázquez

Dean and Chief Administrative Officer, UConn Hartford | Professor of History and Latinx Studies, UConn

Melina Pappademos

Director of the Africana Studies Institute | Associate Professor of History and Africana Studies, UConn

Avinoam Patt

Doris and Simon Konover Chair of Judaic Studies | Director, Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life, University of Connecticut

Wizdom Powell

Director, Health Disparities Institute | Associate Professor of Psychiatry, UConn Health

Tom Scheinfeldt

Associate Professor, Digital Media and Design | Director, Digital Humanities in the Digital Media Center

Fumilayo Showers

Assistant Professor of Sociology and Africana Studies, University of Connecticut

Sara Silverstein

Assistant Professor of History and Human Rights, University of Connecticut

Fiona Vernal

Associate Professor History and Africana Studies | Associate Director for Undergraduate Studies, Africana Studies, UConn

Christopher Vials

Associate Professor of English | Director, American Studies, UConn

Sebastian Wogenstein

Associate Professor of Languages, Cultures, and Literatures, UConn

Ruqaiijah Yearby

Professor School of Law | Co-Director, Center for Equity | Co-Founder, Institute for Healing Justice and Equity, St. Louis University