James Doucet-Battle
James Doucet-Battle is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley/University of California, San Francisco Joint Medical Anthropology Program. Dr. Doucet-Battle’s research and teaching interests lie at the bioethical intersections of science, technology and society studies, diaspora and transnational studies, development studies, and global health. His work contributes to a rapidly growing body of literature engaging in critical studies of race, science and medicine via ethnographic work analyzing both the everyday practices through which both health disparities and their remedial projects are created, as well as their dispersed effects. He is currently affiliated with the Department of Anthropology, the Science and Justice Research Center, and is a core faculty member in the Global and Community Health Program at UC Santa Cruz.
Camilla Hawthorne
Camilla Hawthorne is Associate Professor of Sociology and Critical Race & Ethnic Studies at UC Santa Cruz. She is a faculty affiliate of the Science & Justice Research Center, the Legal Studies Program, and the new Visualizing Abolition Certificate Program at UCSC. Camilla also serves as program director and faculty member for the Black Europe Summer School in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Her work addresses the racial politics of migration and citizenship and the insurgent geographies of the Black Mediterranean. Camilla is co-editor of the volumes The Black Mediterranean: Bodies, Borders, and Citizenship (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021) and The Black Geographic: Praxis, Resistance, Futurity (Duke University Press, forthcoming 2023), and is author of Contesting Race and Citizenship: Youth Politics in the Black Mediterranean (Cornell University Press, 2022).
Naya Jones
Naya Jones is an Assistant Professor in Sociology and Core Faculty in the Global and Community Health Program at UCSC. As a critical geographer and cultural worker, she focuses on two main areas: 1) embodied pedagogy and methods, and 2) Black diaspora geographies of food, ecologies, and healing in North and Latin America. She earned a PhD from the University of Texas at Austin (Geography and the Environment). Before returning to the academy, she consulted with Black, Indigenous, and People of Color-led organizations as they reclaimed restorative practices and reimagined ancestral healing ways. This background in community healing arts deeply inspires her solo and collaborative research. Her current book and mixed media project, On the Move, focuses on Black botanical knowledge beyond the American South. You can also find her feeling through Blaxicana geographies. www.nayajones.com
Savannah Shangé
Savannah Shange is Associate Professor of Anthropology at UC Santa Cruz and also serves as principal faculty in Critical Race & Ethnic Studies. Her research interests include gentrification, multiracial coalition, ethnographic ethics, Black femme gender, and abolition. She earned a PhD in Africana Studies and Education from the University of Pennsylvania, a MAT from Tufts University, and a BFA from Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. Her first book, Progressive Dystopia: Abolition, Anti-Blackness and Schooling in San Francisco (Duke 2019) is an ethnography of the afterlife of slavery as lived in the Bay Area.