Senior Editors

Terrance Dean, Denison University (In Memoriam)
Annette Joseph-Gabriel, Duke University

Founding Senior Editors

T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, Vanderbilt University
Tiffany Ruby Patterson-Myers, Vanderbilt University

Founding Vanderbilt University Editorial Board

Houston A. Baker, Associate Editor Emeritus, Department of English and AADS
Stacey M. Floyd-Thomas, Associate Editor, Divinity School
Jane Landers, Associate Editor, Department of History
Kelly Oliver, Associate Editor, Department of Philosophy and AADS
Alice Randall, Associate Editor and Fiction and Poetry Book Review Editor, AADS
Hortense J. Spillers, Associate Editor Emerita, Department of English

Gilman W. Whiting, Associate Editor, AADS

International Advisory Board

Lamonte Aidoo, Department of Romance Studies, Duke University
Eudine Barriteau, Institute for Gender and Development Studies, University of the West Indies, Barbados
Judy Byfield, Department of History, Cornell University
Glenda Carpio, Department of English and African and African American Studies, Harvard University
Bettye Collier-Thomas, Department of History, Temple University
Afua Cooper, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Dalhousie University
Anastasia Curwood, Department of History, University of Kentucky
Musa Dube, Department of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Botswana
Thadious Davis, Professor Emerita, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania
Frieda Ekotta, Departments of AfroAmerican and African Studies and Comparative Literature, University of Michigan
Lisa Farrington, Department of Art and Music, John Jay College (CUNY)
Karen E. Fields, Independent Scholar
Thavolia Glymph, Department of African and African American Studies, Duke University
Shelley Haley, Departments of Africana Studies and Classics, Hamilton College
Sirène Harb, Department of English, American University of Beirut
Robin D. G. Kelley, Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles
Erik McDuffie, Departments of African American Studies and History, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
Patricia Mohammed, Institute for Gender and Development Studies, University of the West Indies
Mark Anthony Neal, Department of African & African American Studies, Duke University
Nell Painter, Professor Emerita, Department of History, Princeton University
Lara Putnam, Department of History, University of Pittsburgh
Rhoda Reddock, Centre for Gender and Development Studies, University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago
Verene Shepherd, Institute for Gender and Development Studies, University of the West Indies, Mona
Werner Sollors, Professor Emeritus, Departments of African and African American Studies and English, Harvard University
Maboula Soumahoro, Department of English, Université de Tours
Marina de Mello e Souza, Departamento de História, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
Ula Taylor, Department of African American Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Gloria Wekker, Professor Emerita, Department of Women’s Studies, Utrecht University
Michael West, Departments of African American Studies and History, Pennsylvania State University