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Faculty

Faith L. Smith, Department Chair & Undergraduate Advising Head
Associate Professor of African and Afro-American Studies and English
Expertise: African and Afro-American literature. Anglophone Caribbean literature.

Wellington W. Nyangoni
Professor of African and Afro-American Studies
Expertise: Africa: Economic development. Comparative Third World political economy.

Ibrahim Sundiata,
The Samuel and Augusta Spector Professor of History
Expertise: Africa: Social history. Slavery. The African diaspora. Afro-Brazil.

Mingus Ulysses Mapps,
Assistant Professor of African and Afro-American Studies and Politics (on leave academic year 2011-12)
Expertise: Urban politics. Race in American politics. Race, inequality and public policy. Civil Rights law and politics. Campaigns and elections.

Pashington Obeng
2011 - 2012 Madeleine Haas Russell Visiting Professor
Expertise: Religions in Africa [Brief biography]

Wayne Marshall
Lecturer in African and Afro-American Studies
Expertise:  Ethnomusicologist specializing in the music of the Caribbean and the Americas.

Grace Leslie
Allen Berenson Fellow in AAAS & WMGS
Expertise: Civil Rights Movement, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Afro-American History