Since our project was at first mainly conceptualized (and funded) as a network of early-career academics, here is some more information on our original core members, and on additional early-career academics who became members at a later stage in the project’s development:
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Our original team consisted of both Black and white early-career academics who were mainly based in Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States, and represented a range of academic fields that included History, Ethnology, Cultural Anthropology, Literary Studies and Cultural Studies. One of our aims was to make connections between discourses that had hitherto largely seemed to develop in parallel to, or even in opposition to, each other, such as Critical Whiteness Studies / Kritische Weißseinsforschung; research from US-American (especially African American), Black British and Black German Studies, comparative Postcolonial Studies, Black theoretical discourses within Germany, academic research about the Black Diaspora, and debates conducted in the wider public sphere (including the interventions by researchers working outside academia, as well as social, political and cultural activists, for instance from the Black German community). Thus, our project not only promoted networking among early-career academics, but also aimed to connect with more established scholars, Black political and cultural activists, artists and professionals (for instance from the fields of anti-racist education and diversity training), and the wider Black diasporic community – thus extending its networking beyond the original core members and beyond the relatively narrow limits that institutional academic conventions normally often pose to the size and diversity of academic research networks.

Nonetheless, for those who would like to know more about the academic side of our profile, here is a list of our members who joined are the network as early-career academics (though some have moved to more senior positions by now), and of more senior scholars who functioned as academic associates and provided advice and encouragement during the early stages of our project:
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CORE MEMBERSHIP (dating largely from the early years of the project as a network of early-career academics)

• Dr. Robbie Aitken 
  (Sheffield Hallam University, UK)
• Dr. Felix Axster
  (Technical University of Berlin, Germany)
• Dr. Holger Droessler
  (Bard College, USA)
• Prof. Dr. Moritz Ege
  (University of Göttingen, Germany)
• Dr. Cassandra Ellerbe
  (Bard College, Berlin, Germany)
• Cedric Essi, MA
  (University of Bremen, Germany)
• Frederico Fabris, MA
  (Hochschule Mittweida, University of Applied Sciences, Germany)
• Dr. Maja Figge
  (Berlin University of the Arts, Germany)
• Prof. Dr. Tiffany Florvil                                                    (University of New Mexico, USA)​​

• Dr. Katharina Gerund
  (Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)
• Dr. Silke Hackenesch
  (Cologne University, Germany)
• S. Marina Jones
  (University of North Carolina, USA)
• Prof. Dr. Sigrid Köhler
  (University of Tübingen, Germany)
• Dr. Susann Lewerenz
  (Centre for Historical Studies, Concentration Camp Memorial Neuengamme, Germany)
• Prof. Dr. Frank Mehring
  (Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands)
• Christina Oppel-Hédon (network initiator)
  (Lilienthal-Gymnasium, Berlin, Germany)
• Prof. Dr. Damani Partridge
  (University of Michigan, USA)
• Dr. Silke Stroh (main network coordinator)
  (University of Münster, Germany)

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ASSOCIATED SENIOR SCHOLARS

• Prof. Dr. Susan Arndt
  (Institute for English and American Studies, Goethe-University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany)
• Prof. Dr. Eva Boesenberg
  (American Studies, Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany)
• Prof. Dr. Claudia Breger
  (German Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA)
• Prof. Dr. Sabine Broeck
  (American Studies, University Bremen, Germany)
• Prof. Dr. Tina Campt
  (Women's Studies, Duke University, NC, USA)
• Prof. Dr. Maria I. Diedrich
  (American Studies, University of Münster, Germany)
• Prof. Dr. Maisha-Maureen Eggers
  (Hochschule Magdeburg, Diversity Studies, Germany)
• Prof. Dr. Heide Fehrenbach
  (History, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, USA)
• Prof. Dr. Larry Greene
  (History, Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ, USA)
• Prof. Dr. Jürgen Heinrichs
  (Art History, Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ, USA)
• Prof. Dr. Maria Höhn
  (History, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, USA)
• Dr. Martin Klimke
  (New York University, Abu Dhabi, UAE)
• Dr. Wolfram Knauer
  (Jazz-Institute, Darmstadt, Germany)

• Karin Kolber
  (Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany)
• Prof. Dr. Sara Lennox
  (German Studies, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, MA, USA)
• Dr. Alexandra Lindhout
  (American Studies, Johannes-Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany)
• Alanna Lockward, MA
  (American Studies, Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany)
• Dr. Stefanie Michels
  (Goethe-University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany)
• Prof. Dr. Randolph Ochsmann
  (Psychology, Johannes-Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany)
• Prof. Dr. Heike Paul
  (American Studies, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)
• Prof. Dr. Heike Rafael–Hernandez
  (English, University of Maryland in Europe, Heidelberg, Germany)
• Dr. Eske Wollrad
  (Center for Interdisciplinary Women's and Gender Studies, ZFG Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Germany)
• Prof. Dr. Michelle M. Wright
  (African American Studies, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA)

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