Faculty
Chair

Expertise: African and African American literature, Anglophone Caribbean literature
Student hours: Tuesday afternoons in Mandel 217 or via Zoom; Sign-up recommended here.
Department Faculty

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Expertise: 19th & 20th Century American Literature, African American Literature, Film / Media, and Gender & 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 U.S., 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: 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