College of Letters & Science
Biography EducationPh.D. 2009, University of Iowa, Iowa CityM.A. 2003, University of Iowa, Iowa CityB.A. 2001, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul MN Biography Christy Clark-Pujara is Chair and Professor of History in the Department of African American Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She received her B.A. in History and Social Science from the University …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Biography Department of History Affiliate Southeast Asian Studies Affiliate Department of Gender & Women’s Studies Affiliate Dr. Sabrina Thomas is an Associate Professor of African American Studies at UW-Madison. Her research takes a transnational approach to the intersections of race, nation, and war and examines questions of citizenship, identity, and diaspora through the legacies of …
Biography EducationPhD – University of Michigan, Ann ArborMLS – Rutgers UniversityBA – Rutgers University Short BiographyEthelene Whitmire is a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison affiliated with the departments of German, Nordic, and Slavic, and Gender & Women’s Studies. She received an American-Scandinavian Foundation fellowship and a Lois Roth Endowment grant to support this project. …