Department of African and African American Studies

Expertise: African and African American literature, Anglophone Caribbean literature

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

Expertise: Black feminism, Black sexuality studies, performance theory, African American literary and visual cultures

Expertise: Political behavior, identity, race and ethnic politics, political psychology, survey design methods

Expertise:African Studies, Women's and Gender Studies, Gender and Peace & Conflict, African Refugees and Migrants, International Relations, Comparative Politics of Africa

Also serving as Undergraduate Advising Head. Please reach out with questions about the AAAS major or minor.  Also serving as Study Abroad Advisor. 

Expertise: 19th- and 20th-century American literature, African American literature, film/media, gender and sexuality studies

Expertise: Nonprofit Organizations and Foundations, Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Communities of Color, Queer of Color Critique

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

Expertise: U.S. history, slavery and emancipation, Civil War and reconstruction, American religion and culture, 19th-century United States, social history of marginalized peoples

Expertise: Anglophone and Francophone African literature, Caribbean literature, critical theory, film/media, gender and sexuality studies, postcolonial theory and literature

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

Expertise:Queer anthropology; queer of color critique/queer theory; popular culture; Global South queer activism and social life; African diasporas in India; race; digital anthropology; virtual subjectivities; social media; South Asia.

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

Expertise: Sociology of health and illness, sociology of reproduction, critical studies of global health, science and technology studies (STS), research methods, sub-Saharan Africa

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

Expertise: Interdisciplinary and post-studio practices, conceptual art and new genres.