The Cookout, Black Culture and the Continuum of Joy in Chaos! - Africana Studies Conference 2025

Dann J. Broyld is an associate professor of African American History at the University of Massachusetts

Lowell. He earned his PhD in nineteenth-century United States and African Diaspora History at Howard University.

His work focuses on the American–Canadian borderlands and issues of Black identity, migration, and transnational relations as well as oral history, material culture, and museum-community interactions. Broyld was a 2017-18 Fulbright Canada scholar at Brock University and his book Borderland Blacks: Two Cities in the Niagara Region During the Final Decades of Slavery (hardcover 2022/paperback 2025) was published with the Louisiana State University Press. Borderland Blacks won the Ontario Historical Society's 2022-23 Fred Landon

Book Award.