Ruth J. Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice

Affiliated Faculty and Fellows

Our current Faculty, Faculty Fellows, Affiliated Fellows, and Postdoctoral Research Associates.

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Research Cluster Faculty Fellows

  • Linford D. Fisher

    Stolen Relations Project Research Cluster Faculty Fellow; Associate Professor of History
    Linford_Fisher@brown.edu

  • Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve

    Mass Incarceration and Punishment in America Research Cluster Faculty Fellow; Associate Professor of Sociology
    NVanCleve@brown.edu

  • Seth Rockman

    Slavery & Finance Research Cluster Faculty Fellow; George L. Littlefield Professor of American History
    Seth_Rockman@brown.edu

  • Elena Shih

    Human Trafficking Research Cluster Faculty Fellow; Associate Professor of American Studies; Director of Graduate Studies, MA in Public Humanities (2025–2028); Associate Director of Academics, Ruth J. Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery & Justice
    Elena_Shih@brown.edu

  • Taneisha Wilson

    Race, Medicine, and Social Justice Research Cluster Faculty Fellow; Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine; Attending Physician, Brown Emergency Medicine; Director, Equity Initiatives, Brown Emergency Medicine
    Taneisha_Wilson@brown.edu

Public Humanities Faculty

  • Persephone Allen

    Adjunct Lecturer in Slavery and Justice
    sephi.allen@gmail.com

  • Anthony Bogues

    Inaugural Director, Ruth J. Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery & Justice; Director, MA in Public Humanities; Asa Messer Professor of Humanities and Africana Studies
    Barrymore_Bogues@brown.edu

  • Akeia de Barros Gomes

    Visiting Scholar (January through August); Adjunct Lecturer in Slavery and Justice (September through December); Director, Edward W. Kane and Martha J. Wallace Center for Black History at the Newport Historical Society
    Akeia_de_Barros_Gomes@brown.edu

  • Elena Shih

    Associate Professor of American Studies; Director of Graduate Studies, MA in Public Humanities (2025–2028); Associate Director of Academics, Ruth J. Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery & Justice
    elena_shih@brown.edu

Public Humanities Faculty Associates

Affiliated Faculty

Faculty Associates

Postdoctoral Fellows

Research Associates

  • Pepijn Brandon

    Simmons Center Research Associate; Professor of Global Economic and Social History at the Vrije Universiteit

  • Richard Cellini

    Simmons Center Research Associate; Founder & Secretary, Georgetown Memory Project

  • Paul Gardullo

    Simmons Center Research Associate; Director, Center for the Study of Global Slavery and Supervisory Museum Curator at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of African American History and Culture