Angelique M. Davis, J.D. is a tenured Professor of Political Science and Director of African and African American Studies at Seattle University. Her research concentrates on racial gaslighting, dehumanization, apologies, and reparations, the socio-legal 

construction of race, and the reinvention of white supremacy in the twenty-first century. Her published articles are in several journals, including the Journal of Black Studies, The Black Scholar, Berkeley La Raza Law Journal, and Studies in Law, Politics, and Society. She published a book chapter, Political Blackness: A Sociopolitical Construction of Blackness Post-Loving v. Virginia, in "Loving in a 'Post–Racial' World: New Legal Approaches to Interracial Marriages and Relationships" (Cambridge University Press, 2012). Her co-authored “Racial Gaslighting” article in Politics, Groups and Identities with Rose Ernst, Ph.D., won the Western Political Science Association’s 2019 Best Paper Award. Her most recent collaboration with Rose Ernst, Ph.D., is titled Racial Gaslighting: A Self-Help Approach to Racial Justice. They also have a Substack podcast, The Fifth Dimension, on the subject. 

She received her Juris Doctor from the University of Washington in 1999. She served as a federal law clerk and subsequently practiced law until she joined the faculty at Seattle University in 2005. In addition to her academic pursuits, Professor Davis served as a Commissioner on the Seattle Civil Service Commission (2013-2022), owns Exhale Professional Development & Consulting, and is a coach and campus workshop facilitator for the National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity (NCFDD). www.angeliquemdavis.com

Rose Ernst, Ph.D., is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Women & Gender at the University of Warwick and a former Chair and Associate Professor of Political Science at Seattle University. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Washington and her B.A. from Cornell University.

Her research empirically investigates and theorizes political phenomena traditionally ignored or hidden in public policy debates. Such subjects include welfare politics, street-level bureaucracy, race, gender, and class inequality, antiracist social movement organizing, pedagogies of intersectionality, processes of racialization, and racial gaslighting in the United States.

She’s the author of a book, twelve peer-reviewed and law journal articles, and has a book (Colonial Moods) under review. NYU Press published her first book, The Price of Progressive Politics: The Welfare Rights Movement in an Era of Colorblind Racism. She has also published articles in The Annual Review of Law & Social Science; The Journal of Gender, Race & Justice; The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Women’s Social Movement Activism; Perspectives on Politics; Politics, Groups, and Identities; Race and Justice; The Politics of Protest: Readings on the Black Lives Matter Movement; Race and Pedagogy Journal; Social Movement Studies; Social Science Quarterly; Studies in Law, Politics & Society; and Whose Welfare? Marginalized Groups, Inequalities, and the Post-War Welfare State. Her most recent collaboration with Professor Angelique M. Davis is titled Racial Gaslighting: An Antiracist Guide. They also have a forthcoming podcast on the subject. Rose currently works as an editor, coach, and consultant.