Dr. Jocelyn Brown
- Racial and ethnic health disparities among African Americans and Black Americans
- Conducting qualitative research on the lived experiences of Black Appalachian Americans
- Social media and content creation as a form of Black activism and resistance
- Developing evidence-based practices to bring reparations for Black Americans to fruition at the local level
Dr. Gary Edward Holcomb
- 20th-century African American literatures, with a critical concentration on modernist period literature, including the Harlem Renaissance, the literature of the Great Depression decade, and postwar writing
- The Black Arts Movement and black transnational, postmodernist fiction
Dr. Robin D. Muhammad
- Labor history, including workers, their communities and their political institutions.
- History of industrial workers of African descent.