Faculty
Chair
Expertise: African and African American literature, Anglophone Caribbean literature
Department Faculty
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 American and modern United States history, African American military history, World War I, African American intellectual history.
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.
Affiliated Faculty
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.