Black Futures features research-based critical, creative, and pedagogical content from Baruch faculty, guest speakers, scholars, creatives, activists, and Baruch Black Futures Student Scholars.
Read about the contributing Faculty Researchers below:
Project leader: Erica Richardson, Co-Director of the Black Studies Colloquium, (Weissman School of Arts and Sciences; English and Black and Latino Studies)
Dr. Erica Richardson’s interests include African American periodicals, African American Drama, the Harlem Renaissance, and gender and sexuality studies. Her manuscript project, Empirical Desires: Data, Dispossession, and the Aesthetics of the Negro Problem frames and explores the work of Black authors and intellectuals such as W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells, Angelina Grimke, Willis Richardson, and Ann Petry in the context of different iterations of data about Black life from the Progressive era to the mid-twentieth century.
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Rojo Robles, Co-Director of the Black Studies Colloquium (Weissman School of Arts and Sciences; Black and Latino Studies)
Dr. Rojo Robles is a writer, filmmaker, and professor born and raised in Puerto Rico. His interdisciplinary research interests are located at the intersection between Latin American and Caribbean Literature and Film and Afro-Latinx Sound and Cultural Studies. He has been researching and writing about Caribbean Black films, cinegraphic literature in Latin America and is developing a book project on Afro-Boricua expansive poetics. He has published articles in SX Salon| Small Axe Project, The Puerto Rico Review, Revista Cruce, Revista Iberoamericana and has been a cultural critic at 80grados.net for more than a decade.
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Angie Beeman (Marxe School of Public and International Affairs)
Dr. Angie Beeman’s research examines how racism and anti-blackness evolve and are reproduced within institutions and progressive organizations, in particular. She addresses how organizations can build more equitable environments as well as the challenges diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives pose for Black faculty and faculty of color. She has published several articles in peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes and is writing a book entitled “Liberal White Supremacy: The Role of Progressives in Silencing Racial and Class Oppression.”
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Shelly Eversley (Weissman School of Arts and Sciences, Chair of Black and Latino Studies, English)
Dr. Shelly Eversley is Professor of English and Interim Chair of the Black and Latinx Studies department at Baruch College, City University of New York (CUNY), where she teaches literature, feminism, and Black studies. She is also Faculty Co-Director of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s Transformative Learning in the Humanities initiative at CUNY. She was recently Academic Director of CUNY’s Faculty Fellowship Publication Program and is Founder of equalityarchive.com. She is the author of The “Real” Negro: The Question of Authenticity in Twentieth Century African American Literature as well as several essays on literature, race, and culture. Her editorial work includes The Sexual Body and The 1970s, both special issues of WSQ, a journal by the Feminist Press, as well as the forthcoming book Black Art, Politics, and Aesthetics in 1960s African American Literature and Culture (Cambridge). She is currently revising a new book titled The Practice of Blackness: Cold War Surveillance, Censorship, and African American Literary Survival.
Anna D’Souza (Marxe School of Public and International Affairs)
Dr. Anna D’Souza is a development economist who tries to understand factors and inform policies related to poverty and development. Her research areas include food and nutrition security, price shocks, household coping mechanisms, conflict and instability, governance, and trade. She teaches courses on economic analysis of public policy and international development. Her professional website features a list of her publications. Professor D’Souza holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Economics from UCLA and a B.S. in Finance and Economics from the Stern School at NYU.
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Zachariah Mampilly (Marxe School of Public and International Affairs)
Dr. Zachariah Mampilly is the Co-Founder of the Program on African Social Research which works to promote junior scholars based at African institutions. His work focuses on violent and non-violent movements in Africa and South Asia. He is the author of Rebel Rulers: Insurgent Governance and Civilian Life during War (Cornell U. Press 2011) and with Adam Branch, Africa Uprising: Popular Protest and Political Change (African Arguments, Zed Press 2015). He is the co-editor of Rebel Governance in Civil Wars (Cambridge U. Press 2015) with Ana Arjona and Nelson Kasfir; and Peacemaking: From Practice to Theory (Praeger 2011) with Andrea Bartoli and Susan Allen Nan.
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