Staff & Undergraduate Department Representatives

Molly Krakauer
Academic Administrator
Mandel Center, 2nd Floor
(781) 736-2090
krakauer@brandeis.edu

Avital H. DeSharone '13
adesharo@brandeis.edu

Jessye S. Kass '13
jkass@brandeis.edu

Faculty

Chad Williams, Chair 
Associate Professor of African and Afro-American Studies
Expertise:  African American and modern United States History.  African American military history.  World War I.  African American intellectual history.

Faith L. Smith, 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
Expertise: Urban politics. Race in American politics. Race, inequality and public policy. Civil Rights law and politics. Campaigns and elections.

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

AFFILIATED FACULTY

Aliyyah Abdur-Rahman (English)

Joyce Antler (American Studies)

Tara Brown (Education Program)

Richard Gaskins (American Studies)

Jane Hale (Romance Studies)

Daniel Kryder (Politics)

Janet McIntosh (Anthropology)