Willoughby-Herard is guest editor of special issues including: "Black Feminism and Afro-Pessimism" (2018) co-edited with M. Shadee Malaklou in Theory and Event; "Challenging the Legacies of Racial Resentment: Black Health Activism, Educational Justice, and Legislative Leadership" (2017) co-edited with Julia Jordan-Zachery in the National Political Science Review; "Twenty Years of South African Democracy, Volume 1" (2015) co-edited with Abebe Zegeye in African Identities; "Cedric J. Robinson: Radical Historiography, Black Ontology, and Freedom" (2013) co-edited with H.L.T. Quan in African Identities. (Routledge 2017).
