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Robin Dearmon Muhammad is an associate professor and chair of the Department of African American Studies. Muhammad earned her M.S. and Ph.D. at Carnegie Mellon University. She is a contributing author in a global history of shipyard workers, "Shipbuilding and Ship Repair: Workers around the World: Case Studies 1950-2010" (Amsterdam Press and University of Chicago Press, 2016). Her recent article on African American women and workplace violence draws scholarly attention to the normalization of bullying and harassment in industrial spaces. 

Her work on Black labor has been internationally recognized. Currently, her research is uncovering the range of physical and mental health consequences of toxic exposure in heavy industry and service sector occupations.

Through the linking of theory and praxis in African American studies, her teaching offers concrete experiences for students to understand interdisciplinarity readily. She has edited two volumes of African American history and developed additional teaching materials that are flexible to tie in with visual media, fiction, spoken-word performance and music. According to Muhammad, theoretical discussions can be daunting to students, but she has found that deeper conversations and examples of sources are rewarding to them.