Kristen Barnes

Kristen Barnes is the associate dean for faculty research and a professor of law in the College of Law. She teaches courses on property law, housing law, land use planning and law, voting rights, and international law.

Patrick Berry

Patrick Berry is an associate professor of Writing and Rhetoric in the Department of Writing Studies, Rhetoric, and Composition whose interests include higher education in prison and after prison, qualitative research methods, literacy studies, and professional writing and publishing.

Renate Chancellor

Renate Chancellor is an associate professor in the School of Information Studies (iSchool) whose interests include social justice in informational contexts, human information behavior, and racial battle fatigue.

Rachael Goodwin

Rachael Goodwin is an assistant professor of Management in the Whitman School of Management whose interests include leadership obstacles (e.g., discrimination, stereotypes) encountered by low power minorities with a focus on women, deontic justice and workplace attitudes towards perpetrators and victims of sexual harassment, and the detrimental consequences of dehumanization and perfectionism at work.

Alicia Hatcher

Alicia Hatcher is an assistant professor of African American Rhetorics and Literacies in the Department of Writing Studies, Rhetoric, and Composition whose interests include Black rhetorical practices, situating embodied performance(s) as social activism, the use of space and place as tactical tools for engaging in social activism, and contextualizing resistant actions as rhetorical acts and literacy practices.

Delali Kumavie

Delali Kumavie is an assistant professor in the Department of English whose interests include global Black literature, migration, Black feminisms, Studies in Science and Technology, and Black Ecologies.

Aaron Luedtke

Aaron Luedtke is a historian of the United States, Native America and global Indigeneity. His work sits at the interdisciplinary crossroads of US history and Native American studies. Luedke’s teaching and scholarship focus mostly on combatting the ongoing effects of settler colonialism, particularly the erasure and dehumanization of Native peoples engrained in the American national narrative.

David Oh

David Oh is an associate professor of communications in the Newhouse School. His research focuses on topics including Asian American representations in popular and digital culture and Asian American identities and media.

Ruth Opara

Ruth Opara is an assistant professor of Music History and Cultures in the Department of Art and Music Histories whose interests include African and African diasporic music, music and global women, and music and gender.

Jamie Lyn Perry

Jamie Lyn Perry is an assistant professor of Management in the Whitman School of Management whose interests include conflict management, diversity, power and status, and teams.

Kendall Phillips

Kendall Phillips is a professor in the Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies whose interests include popular culture, public memory, and public advocacy. Kendall served as one of the inaugural Co-Directors of the Lender Center for Social Justice.

James H. Rolling Jr.

James H. Rolling Jr. is a dual professor of art education and teaching and leadership in the College of Visual and Performing Arts and the School of Education. His interests include art and design education; creative leadership; social justice and equity, diversity and inclusion; community and engaged scholarship; and art-based and narrative research methods.

Danielle Smith

Danielle Smith is the director of the Renée Crown University Honors Program whose interests include human rights, global development, and leveraging technology to improve human well-being.