Dr. Candice Jenkins, English and African American Studies, has just released a new book entitled Black Bourgeois: Class and Sex in the Flesh (Minnesota 2019).
Entomologist Dr. Esther Ngumbi has just been jointly-appointed as a faculty member with the Department of African American Studies and the Department of Entomology following the completion of her Chancellor's 2018-2019 Postdoctoral Fellowship.