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Core Faculty and Research

David Brunsma

Dr. David Brunsma

Interim Director
Black Studies Program
Associate Professor
Department of Sociology
312 Middlebush Hall
brunsmad@missouri.edu
573.882.1067

The strategies and negotiated manifestations of racial identity in the post civil-rights era as illuminated by the interplay of social structural, cultural/symbolic, interactional, and biographical/narrative life structures
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Wilma King

Dr. Wilma King

Arvarh E Strickland Distinguished Professor
319 Gentry Hall
573.882.9492
Department of History
203 Read Hall
KingW@missouri.edu
573.882.4612

Experiences of free African American women before the general emancipation in 1865, experiences of women and children during slavery, and the high tide of abolitionism
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Dr. LaTrese Adkins-Weathersby

Dr. LaTrese Adkins-Weathersby

Visiting Professor
326 Gentry Hall
573.882.8255
Black Studies Program
AdkinsWeathersbyL@missouri.edu

Constructs theories about ethnic identity formation based on the funerary behaviors of Black Americans from slavery to the present as one, historical approach for conceptualizing cultural differences
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