University of Wisconsin–Madison

People Type: Faculty

Adesina Ifatunji, Mosi

Biography Mosi Adesina Ifatunji, Ph.D. 4141 Helen C. White Hall Email: ifatunji@wisc.edu CV Google Scholar Profile Education: Ph.D. 2011 Department of Sociology, University of Illinois at Chicago M.A. 2006 Department of Sociology, University of Illinois at Chicago B.A.  2003 Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago B.A.  2003 Department of African American Studies, University …

Clark-Pujara, Christy

Biography Education Ph.D. 2009, University of Iowa, Iowa City M.A. 2003, University of Iowa, Iowa City B.A. 2001, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul MN Biography Christy Clark-Pujara is a historian of colonial North America and the early American Republic. Her research focuses on the experiences of Black people in French and British North America …

Collin Wilkins, Langston

Biography Biography Langston Collin Wilkins is an Assistant Professor of Folklore and African American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research interests include African American folklife, African American music, urban folklore, car culture and public folklore. Dr. Wilkins received his PhD from Indiana University’s Department of Folklore & Ethnomusicology in 2016. He also holds …

Davis, Thulani

Biography Education B.A. Barnard College, 1970 (English) M.A. New York University, 2008 (Individualized Study, History, American Studies, Visual Arts) Grad Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 1974-75 Ph.D. New York University, 2014 (American Studies)   Biography Thulani Davis is an interdisciplinary scholar, a veteran journalist, and a writer working in theater, fiction and non-fiction. She is currently …

Drewal, Henry J.

Biography Education Ph.D., Columbia University, N.Y., 1973. Certificate of African Studies (M.A.), Institute of African Studies, Columbia University, 1969. M.A., Columbia University, 1968. B.A., Hamilton College, Clinton, N.Y., 1964. Short Biography Henry J. Drewal is an art historian specializing in the arts of the Yoruba-speaking peoples of West Africa and the African Diaspora. His six …

Edmonds, Brittney

Biography Education PhD, Princeton University MA, Princeton University BA, Cornell University Biography Dr. Brittney M. Edmonds is a scholar of twentieth- and twenty-first century African American literature and culture whose research examines satire, experimentalism, and the institutional life of Black writing. Her current project brings together literary history, cultural criticism, and archival research to describe …

Felker-Kantor, Max

Biography Max Felker-Kantor is an associate professor of African American Studies at UW-Madison. He teaches courses in twentieth-century American and African American history. His research explores race, policing, politics, and cities since World War II. His first book, Policing Los Angeles: Race, Resistance, and the Rise of the LAPD (University of North Carolina Press, 2018) explores …

Lee Stovall, Jessica

Biography Education PhD 2023, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA (Race, Inequality, and Language in Education and Curriculum and Instruction) MA 2014, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL (Literature) BA 2007, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, Wisconsin (Secondary Education, English) Short Biography Jessica Lee Stovall’s research sits at the intersection of Black Studies and education. In her current work, …