Expertise

Research Methodology in Africana Studies, Culture & Identity in the African Diaspora, African Religious Traditions

Biography

Ifetayo M. Flannery is Assistant Professor in Africology and African American Studies at Temple University. She is a 2024-25 CHAT Faculty Fellow in anticipation of her book manuscript Lineage. She was also a 2020 recipient of the Presidential Award from San Francisco State University for innovative scholarly research during her time as a faculty there. In 2018, she was awarded the W.E.B DuBois Research Fellowship and became a visiting scholar with the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Dr. Flannery serves as a proud Board member for NCBS (National Council for Black Studies). She also currently serves as the Undergraduate Director for the Department of Africology and the faculty advisor for Temple’s Abpsi student chapter.

Her work specializes in research methods and methodology in Africana Studies, culture & identity in the African diaspora, and African religious traditions. Her current manuscript seeks to explain the relationship between African religious culture and the development of new African ethnic identities in the diaspora during and after the transatlantic trade. She has spent significant time in Nigeria to research the impact of Yoruba religious culture on the shaping of cultural beliefs and ancestral traditions among African Americans specifically and other diasporic groups who have adapted a Yoruba religious pantheon in the modern era.

Selected Publications

Books

• Flannery, Ifetayo. Lineage: Religious Culture & the (Re)Makings of Ethnic Identity in the African Diaspora (under contract)
• Flannery, Ifetayo M. An Introduction to Black Psychology (1^st edition). San Diego, CA: Cognella Academic Publishing, (2019).

Peer-reviewed Articles

• Flannery, Ifetayo M. “The Entanglement of the Disciplines: Why an Afrocentric Methodology to Advance Humanizing Research on People of the African Diaspora.” Journal of Intersectionality 5, no. 1(2022) 28 40.
• Flannery, Ifetayo M. “Where I Find DuBois in the Collective Consciousness of African Americans.” In Seeds of W. E. B. DuBois: Critical Introspections on DuBois Impact in the Academy, ed. by Richard Benson & Whitney Battle-Baptiste. Amhurst, MA: UMass Press, (2021). 
• Flannery, Ifetayo M. “African Diasporic Consciousness: The Historical & Psychological Impact of the Haitian Revolution.” In The Future of African Triumphalism: Elements of Afrofuturism, ed. by Aaron X. Smith. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, (2020).
• Flannery, Ifetayo M. “Epistemological Reparations: An Afrocentric Approach in Black Studies.” In Africana Urban Education, ed. by James Conyers Jr. & Abul Pitre. Jefferson, NC: McFarland Books, (2020). 
• Flannery, Ifetayo, Yoo, Grace, & Ellen Levine. “Keeping Us All Whole: Acknowledging the Agency of African American Breast Cancer Survivors and Their Systems of Social Support.” Journal of Supportive Care in Cancer 27, no. 7(2019) 2625-2632.
• Flannery, Ifetayo M. “African Diaspora: Heuristics and Perspective within the Africana Studies Disciplinary Framework.” In Qualitative Methods in Africana Studies: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Examining Africana Phenomena, ed. by James Conyers Jr. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, (2016) 313-328.
• Flannery, Ifetayo M. "On the Repeal of the Voting Rights Act and the Breadth of the Long Counter Revolution," Berkeley Journal of African-American Law & Policy 16, no. 2(2015) 263-271.

Courses Taught

• Graduate ProSeminar in African American Studies
• Research Methods in Africology
• Psychology of the African American Experience
• African Spiritual Systems
• Historical Significance of Race in America