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.
Research Cluster Faculty Fellows
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Linford D. Fisher
Stolen Relations Project Research Cluster Faculty Fellow; Associate Professor of History -
Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve
Mass Incarceration and Punishment in America Research Cluster Faculty Fellow; Associate Professor of Sociology -
Seth Rockman
Slavery & Finance Research Cluster Faculty Fellow; George L. Littlefield Professor of American History -
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 -
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
Public Humanities Faculty
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Anthony Bogues
Inaugural Director, Ruth J. Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery & Justice (on leave July–December 2025); Director, MA in Public Humanities (on leave July–December 2025); Asa Messer Professor of Humanities and Africana Studies -
Akeia de Barros Gomes
Adjunct Lecturer in Slavery and Justice; Director, Edward W. Kane and Martha J. Wallace Center for Black History at the Wanton-Lyman-Hazard House -
Marisa Mazria Katz
Adjunct Lecturer in Slavery and Justice -
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
Public Humanities Faculty Associates
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Joshua Babcock
Assistant Professor of Anthropology -
Katharina Galor
Hirschfeld Senior Lecturer in Judaic Studies -
Yannis Hamilakis
Joukowsky Family Professor of Archaeology; Professor of Modern Greek Studies -
Steven Lubar
Public Humanities Faculty Member (2004–2025); Founding Director of the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage (2004–2014); George L. Littlefield Professor of American History Emeritus, Department of American Studies -
madison moore
John Atwater and Diana Nelson Assistant Professor of the Arts -
Shanti Morell-Hart
Associate Professor of Anthropology -
Itohan Osayimwese
Chair and Professor, History of Art & Architecture -
Robert W. Preucel
Professor of Anthropology; Director of the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology -
Thea Quiray Tagle
Associate Curator of The Bell, Brown Arts Institute -
Jordi Rivera Prince
Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow in Anthropology -
Andrew Scherer
Director of the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World (JIAAW); Professor of Anthropology and Archaeology -
Holly Shaffer
Associate Professor of History of Art and Architecture -
Susan Smulyan
Professor Emerita, American Studies -
Parker VanValkenburgh
Associate Professor of Anthropology and Archaeology
Affiliated Faculty
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Linford D. Fisher
Stolen Relations Project Research Cluster Faculty Fellow; Associate Professor of History -
Emily Owens
Simmons Center Faculty Fellow; Assistant Professor of History
Faculty Associates
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Geri Augusto
Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs, Watson Institute -
Joseph S. Meisel
Joukowsky Family University Librarian
Visiting Assistant Professors
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Mack Scott
Visiting Assistant Professor of Slavery and Justice
Postdoctoral Fellows
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Arielle Alterwaite
Simmons Center/JCB Postdoctoral Research Associate (2025–2026) -
Christopher Baldwin
Simmons Center/JCB Joint Postdoctoral Research Associate in Slavery and Justice (2024–2025)
Research Associates
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Pepijn Brandon
Simmons Center Research Associate; Professor of Global Economic and Social History at the Vrije Universiteit -
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