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Kamilah Cummings is a writer, editor, and visiting senior professional lecturer at DePaul University in Chicago. Her scholarship on Prince has been featured at Purple Reign, the first academic Prince conference (University of Salford, UK), polished solid Prince symposia at New York University, Spelman College, and online, as well as The 2021 Pop Convergence (PopCon). Her work on Prince has been published in the Howard Journal of Communications, the Journal of Popular Music Studies, AMP: American Music Perspectives, and Prince and Popular Music: Critical Perspectives on an Interdisciplinary Life (Bloomsbury). She also created the course Prince: A New Breed Leader.

A House music researcher as well, she developed the course The House Chicago Built, has presented on House music at Black Portraiture[s] IV (Harvard University), and appears as a featured speaker in the documentary The Woodstock of House. She is passionate about exploring the intersections of race and identity in media and pop culture, with a particular focus on centering Blackness in the narratives of Black people.