About the Editors and Contributors

ABOUT THE EDITORS

Ogechi E. Anyanwu is a Professor of History and African Studies in the Department of History, Philosophy, and Religious Studies at Eastern Kentucky University, and he is Director of African & African American Studies. He completed his Ph.D. in African History at Bowling Green State University, and his scholarship focuses on Africa’s traditions of intellectual history, identity formation, diplomacy, war and peace, and international politics.

Lisa Day is an Associate Professor of English at Eastern Kentucky University, where she directs Women & Gender Studies and Appalachian Studies. She holds a Ph.D. in English from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Her scholarship focuses on high-impact learning practices, feminist theory, trauma theory, and women’s literature.

Joshua D. Farrington is an Instructor of History at Bluegrass Community and Technical College, and received his Ph.D. in History from the University of Kentucky. His research explores twentieth-century Black politics, Black capitalism, and Black Nationalism.

Gwendolyn Graham is a doctoral candidate in Pan-African Studies at the University of Louisville. Her research and teaching interests include the African American experience as illustrated by African American artists.

Norman W. Powell is an Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies in the College of Education at Eastern Kentucky University. He completed his Ed. D. in Special Education at the American University. Dr. Powell is active in equity, inclusion, and diversity efforts, including his role as a founding member of African and African American Studies at EKU.

ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS

Jayne R. Beilke is a Professor of Educational Studies at Ball State University. She received her doctorate in History of Education from Indiana University- Bloomington. Her current areas of research include Indiana Quaker women who taught freed slaves during Reconstruction along with her search for a freed slave who attended school at the Union Literacy Institute in Indiana.

John P. Elia is a Professor of Health Education and Associate Dean of Health and Social Sciences at San Francisco State University. His areas of interest include the history of public health in the U.S., social movements and health in twentieth-century U.S. history, and contemporary sexuality.

Joshua D. Farrington is an Instructor of History at Bluegrass Community and Technical College, and received his Ph.D. in History from the University of Kentucky. His research explores twentieth-century Black politics, Black capitalism, and Black Nationalism.

Oran Kennedy is a Ph.D. candidate at Leiden University, the Netherlands. He is currently finishing his doctoral dissertation on African American freedom seekers in the antebellum northern U.S. and Canada. His research interests include nineteenth-century North American history, self-emancipation and abolition, the U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction, transnational black migrations, refugee studies, and historical memory.

Cheryl E. Mango is an Assistant Professor of History at Virginia State University and completed her Ph.D. in History at Morgan State University. Her research and teaching interests include American Presidents’ relationships with Historically Black Colleges and Universities; social media’s role in framing the Black experience; public/archival history; and African American, African Diasporic, and twentieth-century U.S. History.

Nicola F. Mason is an Associate Professor of Music Education in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction at Eastern Kentucky University, where she teaches courses in integrating music in the elementary classroom, African children's music, and cultural competence. Originally from South Africa, Dr. Mason received her Ph.D. from the University of Kentucky.

Kevin G. McQueeney completed his Ph.D. in History at Georgetown University and is a Visiting Scholar at the Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies, University of New Orleans. His scholarship focuses on the rise and perpetuation of apartheid healthcare in New Orleans, racial health disparities, and Black health activism.

Kimberly F. Monroe is an Assistant Professor of History and Africana Studies at Trinity Washington University in Washington, DC. She received a Ph.D. in African Diaspora History and a graduate certificate in Women's Studies from Howard University in 2019. Her research interests include Africana Women Activism, Black Internationalism, Global Black Power, the Black Arts Movement, Hip Hop, and Literature.

Leroy Myers Jr. is a Ph.D. candidate in History at the University of Oklahoma. His interests include African American migration and African-Native American relations in the Trans-Mississippi West and Southeast. His research focuses on Black Southern migration throughout Indian Territory and Oklahoma during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Norman W. Powell is an Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies in the College of Education at Eastern Kentucky University. He completed his Ed. D. in Special Education at the American University. Dr. Powell is active in equity, inclusion, and diversity efforts, including his role as a founding member of African and African American Studies at EKU.

Emmitt Y. Riley III is an Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and is an associated faculty member in the Political Science Department at DePauw University. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Mississippi. His research examines racial resentment, black political representation, and African American politics.

James A. Sandy is an Assistant Professor of Instruction at the University of Texas at Arlington, where he teaches courses in military and cultural history. He received his Ph.D. in History from Texas Tech University, and his scholarship focuses on the nexus between American war, irregular warfare, and the Ranger tradition.

Andrew Smith is an Assistant Professor of Sport Management and History at Nichols College. He earned a Ph.D. in History from Purdue University. Smith’s areas of emphasis include sport, race, and the American experience.

Richard A. Thomas is an Associate Teacher at Richard Milburn Academy in Fort Worth. Having completed a Master of Theology at Texas Christian University, his research interests include social movement theory, African American religious life, and critical pedagogical studies in race and ethnicity.

Aaron Thompson completed his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Kentucky, and he is president of the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education. Dr. Thompson has published and presented on diversity, racial profiling, ethics, sexual harassment, leadership, and conflict resolution, among other topics.