Tshepo Masango Chéry is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History with an affiliation in African American Studies. She earned her BA from the Woodrow Wilson School of International Affairs and Public Policy at Princeton University with certificates in African Studies, African American Studies, and Woman & Gender Studies. At the University of Pennsylvania, she obtained her PhD in African History with a certificate in Africana Studies. Her current book project is entitled Kingdom Come: Transnational Practices of Faith & Freedom in South Africa and Beyond. It examines the ways South Africans relied on the African Orthodox Church as a forum from to examines questions of freedom for themselves and other black people worldwide. This historical account which begins in the late 19th century and ends in the late 20th century, links together the political ambitions of South African Ethiopianism, American Garveyism, and East African radicalism.

Her work has been supported by the Fontaine Society, Annenberg Foundation, and the University of Virginia's Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies and she was previously a Postdoctoral Fellow at the John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies.