Black Studies Podcast

The Black Studies podcast is a Mellon grant sponsored series of conversations examining the history of the field. Hosted by Ashley Newby and John E. Drabinski at University of Maryland, our conversations engage with a wide range of activists and scholars - senior figures in the field, late doctoral students, and everyone in between, culture workers, and political organizers - in order to explore the cultural and political meaning of Black Studies as an area of inquiry and its critical methods.

Joyce E. King - Benjamin E. Mays Endowed Chair for Urban Teaching, Learning and Leadership, Afric...

Ashley Newby, Brie Gorrell, Olivia Blucker, John E. Drabinski - Podcast Editorial Collective, Uni...

Jaz Riley - Department of African American Studies, University of Illinois

Carole Boyce-Davies - Department of English, Howard University

Christopher Tounsel - Department of History, University of Washington

Nicole Telfer - Department of Psychology, Notre Dame of Maryland University

Rebecca Wanzo - Departments of African and African American Studies and Women, Gender, and Sexual...

Shanice Robinson-Blacknell - Department of Africana Studies, San Francisco State University

Tamara T. Butler - Executive Director, Avery Research Center for African American History and Cul...

Chelsea Mikael Frazier - Department of English, Cornell University

Sara E. Johnson - Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego

Takiyah Harper-Shipman - Department of Africana Studies, Davidson College

Michael Gillespie - Department of Cinema Studies, New York University

Jarvis McInnis - Department of English, Duke University

Janet Helms - Professor Emeritus, Department of Counseling, Developmental, and Educational Psycho...

Christina Carney - Department of Black Studies, University of Missouri

Ronald J. Stephens - Program in African American Studies, Purdue University

Mia Bay - Faculty of History, University of Cambridge

Michael Harriot - Writer and Critic

Sabrina Evans - Department of Literature and Writing, Howard University

Jona Alexander - Poet and Filmmaker

Johnathan White - Department of History, Penn State University, Greater Allegheny

Watufani Poe - Department of Communication, Tulane University

Davarian Baldwin - Department of American Studies, Trinity College

Natasha Henry-Dixon - Department of History, York University

Tara T. Green - Department of African American Studies, University of Houston

Tony Louis - Educator and Curriculum Designer

Rosa Clemente - Scholar and Activist, Department of Afro-American Studies, University of Massachu...

Anna Hinton - Department of English, University of North Texas

Yasmine Grier - Department of Black Studies, Northwestern University