Titles

• Black Ecologies Initiative Lead, Institute for Humanites Research, Arizona State University
• Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies and Geography, Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice, Rutgers University (Fall 2022)

Biography

In Fall 2022, J.T. Roane will join Rutgers University as assistant professor of Africana Studies and Geography and Andrew W. Mellon chair in the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice.  

He received his Ph.D. in history from Columbia University and he is a 2008 graduate of the Carter G. Woodson Institute at the University of Virginia. He currently serves as the lead of the Black Ecologies Initiative at ASU's Institute for Humanities Research. He is the former co-senior editor of Black Perspectives, the digital platform of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS). Roane's scholarly essays have appeared in Souls Journal, The Review of Black Political Economy, Current Research in Digital History and, Signs. His work has also appeared in venues such as Washington Post, The Brooklyn Rail, Pacific Standard, and The Immanent Frame.

Education

• PhD, History, Columbia University, 2016
• The Highlander Research and Education Center, Zilphia Horton Cultural Organizing Institute, 2013
• Graduate Certificate Program, Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Columbia University, 2011
• Movement Activist Apprenticeship Program, Center for Third World Organizing, 2008
• BA, African American Studies, with distinction Minor in Global Public Health, The University of Virginia, 2008

Expertise

• black geographies
• black ecologies
• black urban and rural history
• black sexuality and gender studies