Senior Editors

T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting

Tiffany Ruby Patterson

Managing Editors

Annette Joseph-Gabriel

Tara F. Williams

Vanderbilt University Editorial Board

Houston A. Baker, Associate Editor

Anastasia Curwood, Associate Editor

Stacey M. Floyd-Thomas, Associate Editor

Jane Landers, Associate Editor

Ifeoma Nwankwo, Associate Editor

Kelly Oliver, Associate Editor

Alice Randall, Associate Editor & Fiction and Poetry Book Review Editor

Hortense J. Spillers, Associate Editor

Gilman W. Whiting, Associate Editor

   International Advisory Board

Eudine Barriteau, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill

Judy Byfield, Cornell University

Glenda Carpio, Harvard University

Bettye Collier-Thomas, Temple University

Afua Cooper, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia 

Musa Dube, University of Botswana

Thadious Davis, University of Pennsylvania

Frieda Ekotta, University of Michigan

Lisa Farrington, John Jay College (CUNY)

Karen E. Fields, Independent Scholar

 Thavolia Glymph, Duke University

Shelley Haley, Hamilton College

Sirène Harb, American University, Beirut

Robin D. G. Kelley, University of California, Berkeley

Erik McDuffie, University of Delaware

Patricia Mohammed, University of the West Indies, Jamaica

Nell Painter, Princeton University

Lara Putnam, University of Pittsburgh

Rhoda Reddock, University of the West Indies, Trinidad

Verene Shepherd, University of the West Indies, Mona

Werner Sollers, Harvard University

Marina de Mello e Souza, Universidade de São  Paulo

Ula Tayor, University of California, Berkeley

Gloria Wekker, Utrecht University

Michael West, Binghamton University (SUNY)