African American Studies’ core faculty members Faye Harrison and Esther Ngumbi have joined Ken Salo (Urban & Regional Planning/African Studies), Krystal Smalls (Anthropology/Linguistics), Cameron McCarthy (EPOL/Institute of Communications Research [ICR]); doctoral students Chibundo Egwuatu (Anthropology), Lila Ann Dodge (Anthropology), and Adrian Wong (Media/ICR); and others in forming a new research cluster that will focus on “Problems in Decolonizing Academia.” This is one of the 2020-2021 collaborative initiatives that has received funding from the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (IPRH).