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

Research Cluster Faculty Fellows

  • 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

Public Humanities Faculty Associates

Affiliated Faculty

Faculty Associates

Visiting Assistant Professors

Postdoctoral Fellows

Research Associates

  • 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