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Meet The Team

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Chair

Omise'eke Tinsley

Department Chair and Professor

omiseeketinsley@blackstudies.ucsb.edu

Omise’eke Tinsley is Professor of Black Studies. Motivated by love for boundless black femme creativity, her research focuses on queer and feminist, Caribbean and African American performance and literature. She recently completed a manuscript entitled The Color Pynk: Black Femme-inist Love and Criticism, which explores black femme aesthetics of resistance in the Trump era. Earlier monographs include Beyoncé in Formation: Remixing Black Feminism (2018); Ezili’s Mirrors: Black Queer Genders and the Work of the Imagination (2018), winner of the 2019 Barbara Christian Prize in Caribbean Studies; and Thiefing Sugar: Eroticism Between Women in Caribbean Literature (2010). She has published articles in journals including GLQ, Feminist Studies, Yale French Studies, and Small Axe and is a contributor to Time, Ebony, The Advocate, and Huffington Post.

Keith Mayes

Vice Chair and Professor

Keith Mayes, Professor. Professor Mayes (Ph.D. in History, Princeton University) examines the narrative construction of reality and how African Americans have found ways to resist impositions of white meaning and emplotment. Mayes’ area of research is on post-war Black social movements but has expanded to include how white psychological, medical, and educational epistemologies invented and shaped narratives about the Black experience as an exercise in biopower. His latest book, The Unteachables: Disabilty Rights and the Invention of Black Special Education (2023) examines the discriminatory labeling of black students and their overrepresentation in classes for the intellectually disabled, emotional and behavior disordered, and learning disabled. Mayes is currently working on a follow-up, entitled, Clinical Badness: How the Behavioral Sciences Invented ‘Bad’ Black Behavior, looking at the history of anti-blackness in clinical medicine and how conceptions of school and societal disorders evolved into conduct disorders that helped construct the early versions of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manuals.

Contacts Block

George Lipsitz

Professor Emeritus

Office Location: South Hall, Room 3704

Candice Lyons

Black Star Assistant Professor of Black Studies

Dasha Chapman

Ella Baker Visiting Professor

Dr. Gaye Theresa Johnson

Associate Professor

Eve Brown

Assistant Professor

Ingrid Banks

Associate Professor

Office Location: Room 3708 South Hall

Jaime Alves

Associate Professor

Office Location: Room 3715 South Hall

Jeffrey Stewart

Professor

Office Location: Room 3631 South Hall

Jude Akudinobi

Lecturer

Office Location: Room 3713 South Hall

Roberto Strongman

Associate Professor

Office Location: Room 3703 South Hall

Sabrina Strings

Professor and North Hall Chair of Black Studies

Christopher McAuley

Professor Emeritus

Claudine Michel

Professor Emeritus

Office Location: Room 3721 South Hall

Douglas Daniels

Professor Emeritus

Office Location: Room 3719 South Hall

Earl Stewart

Professor Emeritus

Gerard Pigeon

Professor Emeritus

Office Location: Room 3719 South Hall

Jane Duran

Lecturer

Office Location: Room 3713 South Hall

Omise'eke Tinsley

Department Chair and Professor

Office Location: Room 3720 South Hall

Keith Mayes

Vice Chair and Professor

Jie Hu

Financial Assistant

Theresa Rodriguez

Management Services Officer

Vacant

Undergrad Advisor

Makaela Wells

Student Assistant

Mariah Webber

Website & Social Media Manager

Faculty
Photo	Name	Phone	Email
	Dasha Chapman Ella Baker Visiting Professor
	Dr. Gaye Theresa Johnson Associate Professor		gtjohnson@ucsb.edu
	Jude Akudinobi Lecturer		akudinob@blackstudies.ucsb.edu
	Jaime Alves Associate Professor		jaimealves@blackstudies.ucsb.edu
	Ingrid Banks Associate Professor		ibanks@blackstudies.ucsb.edu
	Eve Brown Assistant Professor		elbphd@ucsb.edu
	Candice Lyons Black Star Assistant Professor of Black Studies
	Jeffrey Stewart Professor Professor and Vice-Chancellor of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion		jstewart@blackstudies.ucsb.edu
	Roberto Strongman Associate Professor		rstrongman@blackstudies.ucsb.edu
	Sabrina Strings Professor and North Hall Chair of Black Studies

Meet The Team

Chair

Department Chair and Professor

Vice Chair and Professor

Professor Emeritus

Black Star Assistant Professor of Black Studies

Ella Baker Visiting Professor

Associate Professor

Assistant Professor

Associate Professor

Associate Professor

Professor

Lecturer

Associate Professor

Professor and North Hall Chair of Black Studies

Professor Emeritus

Professor Emeritus

Professor Emeritus

Professor Emeritus

Professor Emeritus

Lecturer

Department Chair and Professor

Vice Chair and Professor

Financial Assistant

Management Services Officer

Undergrad Advisor

Student Assistant

Website & Social Media Manager

Faculty

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