People
William Acree
- Email: acree@wustl.edu
Arts & Sciences
Member until August 2025
Research: Cultural history; popular and material culture; public space and state formation in Latin America; collective identities.
Teaching: Courses focused on the cultural history of the Americas; the impacts of cultural goods and activities on politics, identities, and public life; and research methods and professional writing.
Maxwell Adolphson
PhD candidate in Electrical Engineering | Entering Year: 2019 | Research interests: optical resonators, machine learning applied to data analysis and integrated photonics.
G'Ra Asim
Assistant Professor, English and Comparative Literature, Fall 2021 | G’Ra Asim, a writer and musician, is the author of Boyz n the Void: a mixtape to my brother (Beacon Press). He has served as a writing director at the African American Policy Forum and a graduate teaching fellow in Columbia University’s Undergraduate Writing Program. His work has appeared in Slate, Salon, Guernica, The Baffler, and The New Republic. When not writing or teaching, he sings, plays bass and writes lyrics for DIY pop punk quintet babygotbacktalk, who were named one of Alternative Press’s “17 rising Black alternative bands who are leading the next generation.”
Marlon Bailey
Professor, African and African American Studies and Gender and Women’s Studies, Fall 2022 | Marlon M. Bailey is a Black queer theorist and critical/performance ethnographer who studies Black LGBTQ cultural formations, sexual health, and HIV/AIDS prevention. Marlon’s book, Butch Queens Up in Pumps: Gender, Performance, and Ballroom Culture in Detroit, was published by the University of Michigan Press in 2013. In 2014, Butch Queens Up in Pumps won the Alan Bray Memorial Book Prize awarded by the GL/Q Caucus of the Modern Language Association. Dr. Bailey has published widely on Black LGBT cultures, HIV prevention, and sexual health in peer reviewed journals and edited volumes. He holds a PhD in African Diaspora Studies with a Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender, and Sexuality from the University of California, Berkeley.
Arpita Bose
- Email: abose@wustl.edu
Division of Biology & Biomedical Sciences (A&S)
Member until August 2026
Research: Environmental microbes & processes. Professor Bose’s lab generates new ways of addressing issues such as the energy crisis, climate change, pollution, human health, sustainability and the circular economy.
Teaching: Undergraduate course in microbiology and graduate course in experimental design and critical thinking.
Kia Caldwell
Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs and Diversity
- Phone: 314-935-5068
- Email: c.kia@wustl.edu