President and Senior Editor
Kimberly Alecia Singletary received her PhD in Rhetoric and Public Culture at Northwestern University in 2013. She received her MA from Georgetown University’s Communication, Culture, Technology program, and her BJ from the Missouri School of Journalism. She was awarded the Gerald R. Miller Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award from the National Communication Association in 2014. She has received DAAD and Fulbright fellowships to Germany and Austria, respectively. She was a JET scholar and taught in rural Japan directly following her undergraduate degree. Her work on blackness in the global public sphere has been published and featured in various journals and online forums. She writes about race, visuality and popular culture on her blog, Melancholy and the Infinite Post-Blackness. After 10 years in the classroom at universities in the Midwest and Pacific Northwest, she left academia and now works in public health as a  Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Manager. She edits both as a passion project and in service to the academic community. She is completing her first book, set to be published in 2022 by Peter Lang Press.

Min-Kyung Yoon, Associate Editor

Coming from a humanities and interdisciplinary background, MK has research and teaching experience in the United States, Europe, and South Korea. She received a BA degree in History from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, an MA from Harvard University in Regional Studies-East Asia, and a PhD from Leiden University in the Netherlands in Asian Studies with a focus on Korean Studies. At the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, she wrote a thesis on premodern Korean history. At Harvard University, she focused on modern Korean history and literature. At Leiden University, her PhD dissertation focused on the contemporary politics of North Korean art. It examined the visual writing of history in North Korean paintings and monuments. Her PhD research background is interdisciplinary, ranging from cultural studies, history, and art history. She has published in academic journals, and she also has experience writing book proposals for major academic presses. After receiving her PhD, she held postdoctoral fellowships at the École française d’Extrême-Orient, Seoul Center and the University of Hawaii-Manoa. She has taught at the University of Hawaii-Manoa, Kyung Hee University in South Korea, and the University of Arizona.

Kyle Malashewski, Associate Editor

Kyle Malashewski received his PhD from the University of Waterloo in 2017, specializing in the discourse of poverty and disease in 18th century British literature. He has extensive experience as a composition teacher, and is currently based out of the University of Hawai’i at Manoa, where he works with freshmen and advanced undergraduate students to hone their academic research and writing skills. In his free time, he can typically be found exploring Oahu on his bike.
 

Sarah D’Adamo, Associate Editor

Sarah D’Adamo is a humanities educator and researcher based in Baltimore, MD. She completed an MA in English Literature at UVA in 2008, focused on colonial and postcolonial fiction with a thesis on E.M. Forster’s oeuvre and narratology, after which she began teaching internationally. She later returned to academia and completed a PhD in Cultural Studies from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario in Canada in 2022. Her doctoral research focused on the “global” period of the last three decades in US and Canadian higher education, critically examining curricular, credentialing, technological and social infrastructures in undergraduate learning to map pedagogies of development and cultural training alongside political economic conditions and widening crises of social reproduction therein. Initially trained as a postcolonialist, Sarah now engages with a range of humanities fields and methods, including cultural studies, critical university studies, social theory and ecology, literary and genre studies, rhetorical analysis, intellectual and policy history, ethnography, abolitionist and decolonial critique, ethnic and gender studies, and critical geography. Alongside her extensive experiences of teaching and editing writing across academic contexts, Sarah is a community organizer and urban farmer who is passionate about working collaboratively and in service of equitable social transformation and intellectual practice and exchange.

Michael Needham, Founder, Editor-at-Large

Michael Needham began his career as a print journalist, then transitioned to writing and editing for the web, and eventually graduated to academic editing before founding Humanities First. Michael specializes in developmental review and adapting powerful ideas for a wide range of audiences. He has helped place dozens of manuscripts with academic publishers nationwide, and is passionate about making a difference in the lives and careers of scholars. Michael lives in Cincinnati, OH, with his two cats.