Save a Seat for Me embraces the nuances of how contemporary frameworks of masculinity informed by unprecedented advances in women and LGBTQ communities have necessitated a reimagining of the societal expectations a father plays in the public and private sectors of their homes.
Mark Anthony Neal is the James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of African and African American Studies at Duke University. He is one of the preeminent scholars in the United States studying black masculinity, misogyny, and pop culture, exploring how these issues affect Black communities in America and the broader effects these cultural messages contribute to US society.
Jessica Marie Johnson is an associate professor in the Department of History at the Johns Hopkins University. Johnson is a historian of Atlantic slavery and the Atlantic African diaspora, and the author of Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World. Her next book The Light Keepers: Black Women, History, and the Long Fight Against Empire will be published in 2027. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland.
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