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Eric Gable

Eric Gable

Professor of Sociology and AnthropologyUniversity of Mary Washington

Dr. Gable is an expert on museum studies, heritage, and the religion and politics of West Africa and of Outer Island Indonesia.

AnthropologyMuseum StudiesHeritageReligion and Politics of West Africa and Outer Island Indonesia
Leonardo Villalón

Leonardo Villalón

ProfessorUniversity of Florida

Leonardo A. Villalón is a professor of political science and African studies.

West AfricaPost-Colonial StudiesEconomicsDeveloping WorldAfrica
Cholani Weebadde

Cholani Weebadde

Assistant Professor - Plant Breeder for International ProgramsMichigan State University

Cholani Weebadde is dedicated to training the next generation of plant breeders as hunger fighters.

Global Food SecurityHungerPlant BreedingClimate Adaptation
Shobha Gurung

Shobha Gurung

Professor of SociologySouthern Utah University

Specializes in gender and labor, comparative family and community, migration, globalization, and transnationalism, and civic engagement.

Global Civic CitizenshipHuman Rights and Social JusticeGender and Labor StudiesImmigrant, Migrant, and Refugee CommunityGender and Society
Edda L. Fields-Black

Edda L. Fields-Black

Associate ProfessorCarnegie Mellon University

Dr. Fields-Black is a specialist in the trans-national of West African farmers and enslaved laborers on rice plantations.

Higher EducationSlave TradeHistoryAfrican HistoryRice Farmers
Dr Joseph Yannielli

Dr Joseph Yannielli

Lecturer, HistoryAston University

Dr Yannielli’s main fields of interest are slavery and abolition, with a special focus on America during the nineteenth century.

Social MovementsSlavery in the United StatesSlaveryAbolitionSlavery in West Africa
Fatimah Tuggar

Fatimah Tuggar

Artist & Assistant Professor of Contemporary Issues of RepresentationOCAD University

artist working with technology as both medium and subject to address issues of social and environmental justice

Art and CreativityArt EducationArt & TechnologyInstallation ArtSculpture
Jane  Landers

Jane Landers

Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of HistoryVanderbilt University

Expert on digital archives and the history of Colonial Latin America, slavery, early American black history.

AfricaColonial Latin AmericaCaribbean HistoryComparative Slave SystemsThe Atlantic World
M. Eric Benbow

M. Eric Benbow

Associate ProfessorMichigan State University

Insect - Microbe interactions in aquatic ecology, forensics, and human health.

Forensic SciencesInfectious Disease EcologyAquatic EntomologyAquatic EcologyMicrobial Ecology
Carl Zimmer

Carl Zimmer

ColumnistThe New York Times

Columnist at The New York Times

BooksMagazine ArticlesNewspaperScienceBiology