José Aranda, Associate Professor of English: Chicano literature

Alexander X. Byrd, Assistant Professor of History: African Diaspora, Afro-American history

Joseph Clarke, Assistant Professor of English: Caribbean literature

Krista Comer, Associate Professor of English: contemporary American cultural studies,the American West

Ed Cox, Associate Professor of History: Caribbean history

Michael Emerson, Professor of Sociology: race and religion in the Americas

Mark P. Jones, Professor of Political Science: comparative politics, Latin American politics, legislatures, and public opinion

Caroline Levander, Professor of English: 19th-century American literature

Kirsten Ostherr, Assistant Professor of English: U.S. and world cinema, globalization

Anthony Pinn, Professor of Religious Studies: African American religion, Black religious aesthetics

Allison Sneider, Associate Professor of History: 19th- and 20th-century U.S. women's history