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Year
YouTube Link
Panelists
 

Book Conversation Featuring

Marion Orr

  • Dr. Marion Orr, Author (Brown University)
  • Dr. Andra Gillespie, Moderator (JWJI Director, Emory University) 
2025
  • Dr. Reginald K. Ellis (Clark Atlanta University), Dean of Graduate Education, 
  • Dr. Robert M. Franklin (Emory University), Professor of Moral Leadership, Candler School of Theology
  • Dr. Amrita Chakrabarti Myers (Indiana University, Bloomington),  Professor of History
  • Dr. Cynthia Neal Spence (Spelman College), Associate Professor of Sociology
  • Dr. Andra Gillespie (Emory University), Director of JWJI
2024
  • Nadia Brown (Georgetown University), Professor of Government
  • Tasha Philpot (University of Texas at Austin), Professor of Government
  • Sara Sadhwani (Pomona College), Assistant Professor of Politics 
  • Jennifer Chudy (Wellesley College), Assistant Professor of Political Science
  • Andra Gillespie (Emory University), Director of the James Weldon Johnson Institute and Associate Professor of Political Science, Moderator
2024
  • Clint Flucker (Emory University), Director 
  • Nicole Morris Johnson (University of Buffalo), Boyd’s Research Assistant
  • Monet Lewis-Timmons (Duke University)
2024
  • Sarah Gardner, Mercer University;
  • Nichole Phillips, Emory University
  • Alison Collis Greene, Emory University
2023
  • Marc Dollinger, Francisco State University
  • Rabbi Ruth Abusch-Magder, Be'chol Lashon
  • Cheryl Greenberg, Trinity College
  • Terrance Johnson, Harvard Divinity School
  • Candice Jenkins, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
2021
  • Jason Oliver  Chang, Associate Professor, University of Connecticut
  • Hannah Cooper, Professor, Emory University
  • Brianna Woods-Jaeger, Assistant Professor, Emory Unviersity 
  • Gabriel Sanchez, Professor, University of New Mexico
2020
  • Bernard Fraga, Associate professor, Emory University
  • Ashley Jardina, Assistant Professor, Duke University
  • Karthick Ramakrishnan, Professor, University of California-Riverside
  • Ismail White, Professor, Princeton University.
2020

Reparations: An Idea Whose Time Has Come?

  • Megan Ming Frances, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Washington
  • Darrick Hamilton, Executive Director, Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity
  • Melissa Nobles, Professor of Political Science, MIT
  • Alyasah Ali Sewell, Associate Professor of Sociology, Emory University
2019

Race, Scholarship & Activism Event

  • Khalilah Brown-Dean, Associate Professor of Political Science, Quinnipiac University
  • Tehama Lopez Bunyasi, Assistant Professor, School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University
  • David Crockett, Associate Professor of Marketing, University of South Carolina
  • Rafael Solorzano, Assistant Professor of Social Justice, California State University, Los Angeles
  • Lisa Woolfork, Associate Professor of English, University of Virginia
2019

James Weldon Johnson and Black Cosmopolitanism

  • Dr. Marva Griffin Carter, Georgia State University;
  • Dr. Jelani Cobb, Columbia University;
  • Dr. Kali-Ahset Amen, Johns Hopkins University and
  • Dr. Noelle Morrissette, University of North Carolina, Greensboro.
2018

Maynard Film Discussion

  • Wendy Eley Jackson, Executive Producer of MAYNARD
  • Teri Platt, Associate Professor of Political Science, Clark Atlanta University
  • Maurice J. Hobson, Associate Professor of African American Studies and Historian, Georgia State University; Author of Legend of the Black Mecca: Politics & Class in the Making of Modern Atlanta
  • Andra Gillespie, Director of the James Weldon Johnson Institute
 
2018 

Beyond Black & White: Multiracialism in America

  • Gregory Carter, Associate Professor of History, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  • Michelle Elam, William Robertson Coe Professor of Modern Thought & Literature, Stanford University
  • Tanya Hernandez, Archibald R. Murray Professor of Law, Fordham University School of Law
  • Natalie Masuoka, Associate Professor of Political Science, Tufts University