Shauna M. Morgan was a 2011-2012 English scholar. She is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Kentucky and is a Faculty Advisor for Equity and Inclusion Initiatives. Her research interests include Creative Writing, African American Literature and Culture, Postcolonial/Decolonial Studies, Women's Literature and Gender Studies, Literary Theory, African Literature & Film. Her publications include, "For the "Dark Star": Reading Womanism and Black Womanhood in the Novels of Caryl Phillips.” ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature 48.3-4, “Neocolonialism and Ethnic Gerrymandering in the North American Academy.” College Language Association Journal 60.2, and “A Problematic Agency: The Power of Capital and a Burgeoning Black Middle Class in Edward P. Jones’s The Known World .” South Atlantic Review 79.1-2.
Shauna M. Morgan
Christopher House
Christopher A. House (Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh) was a 2011-2012 communications scholar and is currently an associate professor of Communication Studies and affiliate faculty in Culture and Communication and Martin Luther King Scholar program. His research interests are in Black Pentecostal rhetoric & social action, rhetorical theology, critical media & digital studies, communication, culture & race, Black church studies, African American rhetoric and rhetorical theology.
As a Ronald E. McNair Scholar, Syracuse University Fellow, and K. Leroy Irvis Fellow, he has received several national awards and honors. His scholarship has been published in Journal of Communication and Religion (2018), Southern Journal of Communication (2018), Journal of Contemporary Rhetoric (2017), International Encyclopedia of Communication Research Methods (2016), Journal of Race & Public Policy (2014), International Journal of Communication (2013) and Memphis Theological Seminary Journal (2012). His current manuscript, Living Witnesses: The Holy Spirit, Social Justice, Black Pentecostal and What we all can learn from Them is expected to be published early 2021.
Beyond the classroom, Dr. House is also a man of faith and currently serves as the pastor of Christian Community Church Ithaca and he is an accomplished motivational & inspirational speaker, and lecturer for several religious, non-profit and community organizations in the United States, the Caribbean, Canada, and in several African countries. In addition to his academic, professional, and ecclesiastical responsibilities, he enjoys spending time with family and friends.
Eric Hamako
Eric was a 2011-2012 education scholar and has been involved in student and community-organizing since 2000. He completed his doctorate in Social Justice Education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, studying how community education can support Mixed-Race people's political movements and ways to incorporate stronger anti-racist frameworks into those educational efforts.
Eric has taught undergraduate and graduate courses at Stanford University, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Ithaca College, the Smith College School for Social Work, and beginning Fall 2014, at Shoreline Community College in Washington State.
As an independent trainer & consultant, Eric presents on Multiraciality, popular culture, and other social justice issues to universities, professional associations, and community organizations across the United States. Selected presentations include: An Introduction to Multiraciality: Politics & Identities, Mixed-Race on Campus: Multiracial student identities & issues in higher education, What should Multiracial people learn? Learning goals for anti-(mono)racist education, Improving anti-racist education for Mixed-Race participants, Harry Potter and the Mistaken Myth of the Mixed-Race Messiah, Zombie Orientals Ate My Brain! Orientalism in contemporary zombie film & fiction, Missionary Position: Race, class & religion in "teacher movies."