Dr. Tennille Allen

Dr. Allen is the director of Lewis University's African American Studies and Ethnic and Cultural Studies Programs. 

She is the author of works on African American intimate relationships, social networks, food inequalities, 
and the sociological contributions of Zora Neale Hurston, as well as African American 
resistive, cultural and creative practices. 

She is the principal investigator for her current community-based participatory research projects focused on community memory and cultural practices of Black residents of Will County, Illinois, 
as well as creative practices of resilience in the intersections of race, place, and mass incarceration.