Dr. Alicia Odewale has joined the University of Houston's African American Studies department as Professor-of-Practice and director of Undergraduate Studies overseeing the department's internship program. 

An African Diaspora archaeologist specializing in restorative justice, antiracist, Black feminist and community-centered archaeology, Odewale researches sites of African heritage throughout the United States and Caribbean regions. 

Odewale leads the archaeological and educational consulting firm Archaeology Rewritten and serves as a National Geographic Explorer, sharing globally how tangible and intangible Black heritage can be observed in the natural world through maps, objects, historic structures, oral histories, archival records, sacred landscapes and trees. 

She co-directs the research project "Mapping Historical Trauma in Tulsa from 1921-2021," using archaeology to examine the resilience of Greenwood and the Black community following the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.