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Jasmine Blanks Jones

Executive Director, Center for Social Concern; Assistant Research Scholar, Chloe Center, Johns Hopkins University

Research Interests: Youth cultural production, global citizenship education, social determinants of health, Black performance and embodied knowledges, youth in Africa

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Shane Butler

Nancy H. and Robert E. Hall Professor in the Humanities; Professor of Classics; Director, Classics Research Lab, Johns Hopkins University

Research Interests: Latin literature, classical reception, sensation, aesthetics, queer theory, media theory

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Nicoletta Darita de la Brown

Interdisciplinary artist, performance artist, sculptor, and filmmaker

Research Interests: public art, performance, spiritual wellness, plant-medicine, healing

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Sarah Fouts

Assistant Professor in the Department of American Studies, director, Public Humanities program, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Research Interests: political economy, food studies, New Orleans, Honduras, ethnography, labor studies, and community engagement

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François Furstenberg

Professor, Department of History, Johns Hopkins University

Research Interests: United States, c. 18th and 19th centuries and French Atlantic

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H. Yumi Kim

Assistant Professor, Department of History, Johns Hopkins University

Research Interests: 19th- and 20th-century Japan and Korea, medicine and religion, folk culture, colonialism, and the history of women and gender

Ashley Minner

Community-based visual artist, folklorist, and enrolled member of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina

Research Interests: interdisciplinary art, folklore, East Baltimore’s historic American Indian “reservation”

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madison moore

Assistant Professor of Modern Culture and Media, Brown University

Research Interests: Black popular culture, Black queer aesthetics, contemporary art, cultural studies, electronic dance music, fashion and body politics