Dr. Charles H.F. Davis III is an Assistant Professor in the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education. His current research and teaching broadly focus on issues race and racism, systems of oppression, and structures of domination in U.S. higher education and its social contexts. In particular, his current ethnographic work uses traditional and visual methods to explore how Black campus and community activists build and exercise political power to drive social and institutional change.
Melinda Richardson serves as Managing Director of the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education (CSHPE) in the University of Michigan’s Marsal Family School of Education. For the past decade she has planned and co-led domestic and international experiential study programs for graduate students.