Kam Copeland
Assistant Professor of African American and African Studies; Assistant Professor of Theatre, Film, and Media Arts (by courtesy)
University Hall
230 North Oval Mall
Columbus, OH 43210
Areas of Expertise
- Black Muslims in Cinema and Media
- Black Film and Television Studies
- African American Studies
- Muslim American Studies
- Race, Religion, and Media
- Black Southern Studies
Education
- PhD University of Southern California
- MA Savannah College of Art and Design
- MA Valdosta State University
- BFA Valdosta State University
Prior to coming to Ohio State, Kam Copeland was a 2023-2024 Post Doctoral Fellow in the James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference at Emory University and the 2022-2023 Dissertation Fellow in the Program in African and African Diaspora Studies at Boston College. Currently, he is working on his book project titled Muhammad Gazes: Islam, Blackness, and Resistance Cinema in the United States, which is a representational history of U.S. Black American Muslims in cinema. This project also explores how Black Muslims have employed alternative gazes to craft liberatory cinematic practices—through home video, public television, and independent film—to challenge dominant representations of Black Muslimness