Contributing Authors
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Jessica Bendit is a student at Brown University and recent recipient of its Danny Warshay Exceptional Leadership Award for mentoring, modeling, and community building.
Cassandra Chaney is an associate professor in the College of Human Sciences and Education, School of Social Work, Child and Family Studies at Louisiana State University. Much of her published scholarship is founded on a strengths-perspective and emphasizes African American spirituality, relationships, and family formations and structures.
Tamara L. Hoff is a doctoral student in Education Policy, Organization, and Leadership at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She specializes in the history of American education with an emphasis on black women in higher education during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
Frances C. Lawrence is an associate dean of Louisiana State University's E. J. Ourso College of Business and holds both the Gerald Cire and Lena Grand Williams Alumni Professorship and the Ourso Professorship of Communication Studies. As a member of the college's Department of Finance, she conducts research related to poverty and rural health issues.
Daniel McClure is an assistant professor in the Department of Africology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His research is interdisciplinary and rooted in the fields of cultural history, African American history, and diaspora studies. His specific interests include examinations of cultural identity, social movements, and cultural production, with particular emphasis on the intersections of culture, politics, and activism from the late nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century.
Linda Skogrand is an associate professor and extension specialist in Family, Consumer, and Human Development, Utah State University. Her research focuses on the strengths of individuals and families, specifically strong marriages and families in diverse communities including Latino, Navajo, and African American cultures.
Katrina Dyonne Thompson is an assistant professor at Saint Louis University. She holds a joint position in the Department of History and African American Studies Program. Her research explores the interplay between race, gender, and popular culture. Though a historian, her work often takes an interdisciplinary approach and incorporates methodologies and theories from cultural studies, mass media, performance studies, diasporic research, and literature. Overall, her research focuses on popular culture in the nineteenth century to present-day racial images in mass media of television, film, music, and advertisement.
Jakobi Williams is an assistant professor of History at the University of Kentucky. His research interests are centered on questions of resistance and the social justice revolutions found within the historic African American community. His book From the Bullet to the Ballot: The Illinois Black Panther Party and Racial Coalition Politics in Chicago is forthcoming as part of the John Hope Franklin Series, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Press.
