Faculty

Chair

Chad Williams

Samuel J. and Augusta Spector Chair in History

Associate Professor of African and African American Studies

781-736-3250 chadw@brandeis.edu Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Center for the Humanities, 220

Expertise: African American and modern United States History, African American military history, World War I, African American intellectual history.

Department Faculty

Salah Hassan

Professor of African and African American Studies

Professor of Fine Arts

781-736-8552 sh40@brandeis.edu Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for the Humanities, 206

Office Hours: By appointment during Spring semesters

Expertise: African and African American art history, African aesthetics, African cinema, contemporary art and theory

Wangui Muigai

Florence Levy Kay Fellow in Race, Science and Society in the Department of African and African American Studies

Fellow in the Program in Health: Science, Society, & Policy

781-736-2083 wmuigai@brandeis.edu Rabb Graduate Center, 109

Office Hours: TBA

Expertise: Race and health, history of medicine and science, African American cultural and intellectual history, history of childhood

Wellington W. Nyangoni

Professor of African and African American Studies

781-736-2091 nyangoni@brandeis.edu Kutz Hall, 133

Expertise: Economic development of Africa, Comparative Third World political economy

Carina Ray

Associate Professor of African and African American Studies

Study Abroad Liaison

781-736-2027 cer15@brandeis.edu Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for the Humanities, 219

Expertise: Africa and the Black Atlantic world, race and sexuality, comparative colonialisms and nationalisms, migration and maritime histories, relationships between race, ethnicity, and political power

Faith L. Smith

Associate Professor of African and African American Studies, English, Latin American & Latino Studies, and Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies

Undergraduate Advising Head

781-736-2094 fsmith@brandeis.edu Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for the Humanities, 217

Expertise: African and African American literature, Anglophone Caribbean literature

Amber Spry

Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies and Politics

781-736-3109 amberspry@brandeis.edu Olin-Sang American Civilization Center, 108

Visiting and Adjunct Faculty

Patrick Sylvain

Lecturer in African and African American Studies

psylvain@brandeis.edu Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Center for the Humanities, 218

Emeritus Faculty

Ibrahim Sundiata

Professor Emeritus of African and African American Studies and History

Expertise: Social history of Africa, slavery, the African diaspora, Afro-Brazil

Affiliated Faculty

Gregory Childs

Assistant Professor of Latin American History

781-736-2291 gchilds@brandeis.edu Olin-Sang American Civilization Center, 105

Office Hours: On Leave

Expertise: African diaspora studies, Latin American and Caribbean history, critical theories (race, social, legal), history of psychiatry, alterity and difference, philosophy of history and historiography, Atlantic world history, graffiti and hip hop studies

Abigail Cooper

Assistant Professor of History

781-736-2284 abcooper@brandeis.edu Olin-Sang American Civilization Center, 121

Expertise: U.S. history, slavery and emancipation, civil war and reconstruction, American religion and culture, 19th century U.S., social history of marginalized peoples

Richard Gaskins

Proskauer Chair in Law and Social Welfare

Director, Legal Studies Program and Director, Brandeis in The Hague

781-736-3028 gaskins@brandeis.edu Brown Social Science Center, 313

Expertise: Comparative law, social welfare, global justice and human rights, economic philosophies, legal argumentation

Anita Hill

University Professor of Social Policy, Law, and Women's

University Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies

781-736-3896 ahill@brandeis.edu Heller-Brown Building, 374

Expertise: Anti-discrimination law and policy on gender and race

Daniel Kryder

Louis Stulberg Chair in Law and Politics

781-736-2778 kryder@brandeis.edu Olin-Sang American Civilization Center, 202

Expertise: American political development, qualitative methods, policing and social movements, history of race policy and politics

Janet McIntosh

Professor of Anthropology

Department Chair, Anthropology

781-736-2215 janetmc@brandeis.edu Brown Social Science Center, 226

Expertise: Linguistic anthropology. Language ideology. Psychological anthropology. Personhood. Essentialism. Colonialism and postcoloniality. Identity. Whiteness studies. Military studies. Nationalism. East Africa and United States.

Derron Wallace

Assistant Professor of Education and Sociology

781-736-2088 dwallace@brandeis.edu Abraham Shapiro Academic Complex, 214

Expertise: Sociology of education, comparative education, multicultural and multiethnic education, social inequality, critical theories of race, transnational migration, Caribbean diaspora studies