Contributors
- Contributors
Richard D. Benson II is the 2019/2020 Robert A. Corrigan Visiting Professor in Social Justice at the San Francisco State University (SFSU) College of Ethnic Studies. Dr. Benson is a historian specializing in education, the Black Freedom Movement, and transnational social movements. He completed a PhD in Educational Policy Studies, specializing in the history of education, at the University of Illinois. He is currently an associate professor in the Education Department at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia. He has received a number of grants and awards, including the UNCF/Mellon International Faculty Residency, the W.E.B. Du Bois Visiting Scholars Fellowship at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, the C.L.R. James Research Fellowship by the African American Intellectual History Society, and the New York Public Library Fellowship. He is the award-winning author of Fighting for Our Place in the Sun: Malcolm X and the Radicalization of the Black Student Movement 1960–1973. Dr. Benson is currently working on a book manuscript entitled Funding the Revolution: Black Power, White Church Money, and the Financial Architects of Black Radicalism 1966–1976.
Abigail E. Celis is an assistant professor in the Department of French and Francophone Studies and the African Studies Program at the Pennsylvania State University. Her research and teaching explore the creative and critical expression of Afro-descendants and postcolonial migrants in France, spanning a range of primary sources that include visual art, literature, cinema, and museum practices. Her scholarly production includes curatorial work and creative collaborations with practicing artists. She is co-editor of the Wiley-Blackwell Companion to World Literature: Volume IV and has published (or has work forthcoming) in French Studies, TTR, and other venues. She has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the Camargo Foundation, and the Lurcy Foundation for her research.
Zenzele Isoke is an associate professor of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Minnesota. Drawing from the ideas of black decolonial thinkers, Isoke writes the contemporary history of cities through the political struggles of self-identified black/queer women of the African diaspora. Writing across the fields of geography, political science, and urban anthropology, her scholarship spans several cities in the United States, the Middle-East, and the Caribbean. Her book project, Dissenting Lives: Black Femaleness, Racial Justice, Activist Praxis, uses decolonial poetics to theorize and explore black feminist politics through the mediums of collaborative artmaking, breath and meditation, and conventional grassroots organizing in racially segregated urban spaces. She is author of Urban Black Women and the Politics of Resistance. Her writing has been featured in several peer-reviewed journals and anthologies.
Marina Magloire is an assistant professor of English at the University of Miami. Her current book project is a spiritual history of black American feminism. Marina’s work on this subject has been published or is forthcoming in Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism; African American Review; Meridians: Feminism, Race, and Transnationalism; and The Paris Review.
Edward Piñuelas is an assistant professor in the Department of English, Comparative Literature, and Linguistics at California State University, Fullerton. His research and teaching interests are literature and film of the African Diaspora, with particular focus on the North American slave narrative and its contemporary derivatives, postcolonial Afro-Caribbean fiction and poetry, and Afro-Brazilian literature and film. Dr. Piñuelas’s book project, Fugitive Frequencies: Music, Noise, and Voice in Black Atlantic Literature, examines how sonic acts throughout the Black Atlantic have activated modes of subjectivity and relation outside, yet frustratingly proximate to, the enslaving and colonizing missions in which they emerged.
Owen Walsh is a doctoral candidate in history at the University of Leeds (United Kingdom). His present research project uses the West Coast of America as a starting point for understanding internationalist iterations of Black political culture during the Depression. His wider interests are the histories of African America and the African diaspora, transnational radicalism, and Marxism.
