Contributors
- Contributors
Kevin L. Brooks (brooks.745@osu.edu) is program coordinator for the Department of African American and African Studies Community Extension Center at The Ohio State University. His research and teaching areas include curriculum studies, cultural studies in education, health/wellness studies, and Black/Africana studies. His scholarly interests examine curriculum theory, critical social theory, and cultural pedagogy in relation to holistic wellness development, sociocultural aspects of play, media representations of the human body, the education of African American students, and the relationship between African American athletes and the sports industry.
Theresah P. Ennin (adwoata@gmail.com) holds a master of philosophy from the University of Cape Coast, Ghana, and a doctorate from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Ennin is a lecturer at the Department of English at the University of Cape Coast, Ghana, where she teaches African literature. Her research interests include the representations of men and masculinities in Ghanaian literature and film and African women writers and the articulation of subaltern voices.
Judson L. Jeffries (jeffries.70@osu.edu) is a professor in the department of African American and African Studies at The Ohio State University. He is also the director of the African American and African Studies Community Extension Center at the university. His research interests include race and politics, homeland security, and public policy. Jeffries earned his PhD in political science from the University of Southern California in 1997.
Theodore S. Ransaw (ransawth@msu.edu) is an Education Specialist for K–12 Outreach at Michigan State University (MSU). His focus is closing the achievement gap of males of color. Ransaw’s research interests include rites of passage, fatherhood, and gender studies. He also lectures regularly about [End Page 125] African American males, the achievement/relationship gap for males, as well as literacy strategies for males of color.
Renford Reese (rrreese@csupomona.edu) is a professor in the Political Science Department and the faculty coordinator of the Africa Study Abroad programs at Cal Poly Pomona University. He is the author of five books and has been a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Hong Kong. Reese has been featured on ESPN and appears as a commentator on the Biography Channel’s mini-bios on Jesse Owens and Jackie Robinson. He is the founder of the Prison Education Project, the Reintegration Academy for parolees, and the Colorful Flags program.
Seneca Vaught (svaught3@kennesaw.edu) is an assistant professor of history & philosophy at Kennesaw State University in Georgia where he also holds joint appointments in the Departments of African and African Diaspora Studies and Interdisciplinary Studies. His research investigates intersections between race, policy, and technology in strategies for social change and community engagement. Additionally, he is editor of Afro-Americans in New York Life and History and has served as director of Information and Technology for the Africana Cultures and Policy Studies Institute.
Joshua K. Wright (jkwright1@umes.edu) holds a bachelor’s degree from Loyola College in Maryland, a master’s degree in history from George Washington University, and a PhD in history from Howard University. He is an assistant professor of American history at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. Since joining the faculty in 2010, he has taught courses on the Civil War, the presidency, slavery, gender studies, the 1960s, sports and race, and hip-hop. He is also a coordinator of the university’s Social Studies Education program and cofounder of a mentoring program for local elementary school children. His research has focused on gender in popular culture, race in sports, and empowerment struggles in twentieth-century African American history. He has made conference presentations and contributed articles or book chapters on these topics. [End Page 126]
