Leadership & Partners
ARCH National Council
Principal Researchers
Dr. Marcus Anthony Hunter
Dr. Hunter is the Scott Waugh Endowed Chair in the Social Sciences Division, Professor of Sociology & African American Studies at UCLA.
Dr. Charles L. Chavis, Jr.
Dr. Chavis is Director of African & African American Studies, founding Director of the John Mitchell, Jr. Program at The Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, and Assistant Professor of History & Conflict Resolution at George Mason University.
National Staff
Morgan State Univ.
NC State Univ.
Local & National Partners
We are grateful to the Institute of Museum and Library Services and Humanity United for their inaugural support and investment in the ARCH collaborative model.
Dr. Marcus Hunter
Dr. Marcus Anthony Hunter is the Scott Waugh Endowed Chair in the Social Sciences Division, Professor of Sociology & African American Studies at UCLA. Coiner of #BlackLivesMatter, Hunter served as the Inaugural Chair of UCLA’s African American Studies Department and President of the Association of Black Sociologists. The National Science Foundation and Social Science Research Council have also supported his research. In addition, Hunter drafted and advised Congresswoman Barbara Lee's historic Bill to establish the first-ever US Truth, Racial Healing, & Transformation Commission.
He has appeared on C-SPAN's BookTV, MSNBC, BBC, NPR, in the Sacramento Bee, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, the Washington Post, and the New York Times.
Dr. Chavis
Dr. Charles L. Chavis, Jr. is Director of African & African American Studies, the founding Director of the John Mitchell, Jr. Program for History, Justice, & Race, at The Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, and Assistant Professor of History and Conflict Resolution at George Mason University. He is the author of the book, The Silent Shore: The Lynching of Matthew Williams and the Politics of Racism in the Free State (Johns Hopkins University Press; January 2022) which investigates and reconstructs the full story of one of the last lynchings perpetrated in Maryland.
Dr. Chavis is National Co-Chair for the United States Truth, Racial Healing, & Transformation Movement and the Vice Chair of Maryland’s Lynching Truth and Reconciliation Commission. He also serves on the PBS Exploring Hate Advisory Committee. Follow him on X: @Chavis4Change
Tyanna Parker-West
Tyanna Parker-West is a Public historian and proud Gullah Geechee woman whose Brunswick County, NC, roots go back to the early 1800s. Wrapping up her final semester at North Carolina Central University, Tyanna’s Masters thesis examines the Gullah Geechee connection in the Lower Cape Fear Region of North Carolina. Tyanna is also a first-year PhD student at North Carolina State University where her areas of focus include African American history and Cultural Preservation.