Robert Thomas Choflet has earned a Distinguished Teaching Award from the University of Maryland's Center for Teaching Excellence, a Faculty Mentor Award from the Honors Program's Winston Family Honors, and is currently a 2015-2016 Teaching Fellow for the University of Maryland's Teaching and Learning Transformation Center.

Robert is a doctoral candidate in American Studies. He is a Bode-Wise Fellow and teaches in the African American Studies Department. His dissertation, entitled “'Unfit for Family Life': How Regimes of Sexuality, Accumulation, and Antiblackness Built (and Rebuilt) West Baltimore,” works from archival research and oral histories in order to study the racial, sexual, and political economic dimensions of “the Black family” and US housing policy. His research interests include critical race theory, housing policy, the history of racial capitalism, critical urbanism, and social reproduction in the postindustrial city. Courses he has taught include “Black Culture in the United States” (AASP 202) and “Black Baltimore in 'Post-Racial America'” (AASP 398Q).