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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 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.

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

Department Faculty

Wangui Muigai

Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies; History; Program in Health: Science, Society, & Policy

781-736-2083 wmuigai@brandeis.edu Mandel Center for the Humanities, 218

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

On leave: Fall 2022, Spring 2023

Shoniqua Roach

Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies, and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies

781-736-8564 shoniquaroach@brandeis.edu Mandel Center for the Humanities 206

Expertise: Black Feminism, Black Sexuality Studies, Performance Theory, African-American Literary and Visual Cultures

On ;eave: Fall 2022, Spring 2023

Amber Spry

Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies

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

On leave: Fall 2022

Faith L. Smith

Associate Professor of African and African American Studies; English; Latin American, Caribbean and Latinx Studies; and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies

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

Expertise: African and African American literature, Anglophone Caribbean literature

On leave: Fall 2022, Spring 2023

Anya Wallace

Visiting Assistant Professor

Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and African and African-American Studies

anyawallace@brandeis.edu Rabb 107

Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso

Associate Professor of African and African American Studies

781-736-2027 olaj@brandeis.edu Mandel Center for the Humanities, 219

Expertise: African Women's and Gender Studies, Women in Conflict/ Postconflict, African Refugees, International Relations, African Politics.

Emeritus Faculty

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

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

Brandon Callender

Assistant Professor of English

781-736-4899 bcallender@brandeis.edu Rabb 130

Office Hours: TTh 4-5

Expertise:19th & 20th Century American Literature, African American Literature, Film / Media, and Gender & Sexuality Studies

V Varun Chaudhry

Assistant Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

vchaudhry@brandeis.edu Rabb Graduate Center, 109

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

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

Emilie Diouf

Assistant Professor of English

781-736-2161 diouf@brandeis.edu Rabb 230

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

Anita Hill

University Professor of Social Policy, Law, and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies

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

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

Brian Horton

Assistant Professor of Anthropology

bhorton@brandeis.edu Brown 205

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.

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

Siri Suh

Assistant Professor of Sociology

781-736-2635 jssuh@brandeis.edu Pearlman Hall 102

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

Derron Wallace

Assistant Professor of Education and Sociology

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