Affiliate Faculty

Dr. Jason Edward Black (he/him) is professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Dr. Black acknowledges that the land upon which he dwells is located on the traditional territories of the Catawba, Waxhaw, Cheraw, and Sugeree peoples, past and present. He honors with gratitude the people who […]

Nadia M. Anderson is an Associate Professor of Architecture and Urban Design and Director of the City Building Lab at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her project work uses community engagement to generate co-creation design processes that facilitate agency in marginalized communities. This work engages multiple scales from pop-up installations to regional watershed […]

Faculty Research Connections Profile Dr. DuBose serves as Assistant Professor of Classical and Contemporary Voice at UNC Charlotte and serves as Co-Coordinator of the Musical Theatre Certificate Program. Her research is centered on the impact of genre fusion and improvisation in 21st-century operas on vocal pedagogy and performance practice. Her interests span to include hybrid works that […]

Rob Conkie (he/him), Robinson Distinguished Professor of Shakespeare Studies, integrates practical and theoretical approaches to the teaching and research of Shakespeare in performance. He is the author of Writing Performative Shakespeares: New Forms for Performance Criticism (Cambridge University Press, 2016) and The Globe Theatre Project: Shakespeare and Authenticity (Edwin Mellen Press, 2006), and the editor (with Scott Maisano) of Shakespeare […]

Faculty Research Connections Profile Education Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2016 Research Interests & Bio 20th Century African American Public and Intellectual History; Civil Rights Movement and Black Press History; African American Military and Labor History; African American Biography and Charlotte’s Local Black History My research interest emerged from graduate work examining […]

Education Areas of Interest Bio Dr. Ashli Quesinberry Stokes (PhD, University of Georgia) is a Professor of Communication Studies and the former Director of the Center for the Study of the New South at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. A 20-21 Fulbright Scholar, her research about communicating identity in the Southern food movement […]

Copyright & Licensing Librarian Arnetta is a Copyright and Licensing Librarian at UNC Charlotte. Her background is in law and cultural anthropology, and she shares her expertise in legal and ethical issues to help cultural heritage institutions create, manage and preserve culturally significant collections and archives. She also help scientists do better science, help humanists […]

Lisa Homann is an associate professor of art history at UNC Charlotte. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. in Art History from the University of California, Los Angeles. Specializing in West African masquerade practices from the late 19th century to the present, her research concentrates on creative innovation, ethical methodologies, patronage, performance, and Muslim identities. Most recently […]

Assistant Professor, History Christy Hyman is an Associate Professor in the Department of History. She uses Geographic Information Systems to observe how critical geography can inform us of human/interspecies experience while acknowledging phenomena deriving from oppressive systems.  Christy has two book projects: The first, The Cultural Heritage Resilience of the Great Dismal Swamp is under contract with […]

Faculty Research Connections Profile A choreographer, dancer, and native New Yorker, Kim Jones is an associate professor of dance at UNC Charlotte, a régisseur for the Martha Graham Resource Center, and founder and artistic director of Movement Migration. She danced with the Martha Graham Dance Company (2001-2006) and the Metropolitan Opera Ballet (1998-2003) and served as a principal […]