Faculty
Chair
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
Expertise: Race and health, history of medicine and science, African American cultural and intellectual history, history of childhood
On Leave: Fall 2022, Spring 2023
Expertise: Black Feminism, Black Sexuality Studies, Performance Theory, African-American Literary and Visual Cultures
On Leave: Fall 2022, Spring 2023
Expertise: Political behavior, identity, race and ethnic politics, political psychology, and survey design methods
On Leave: Fall 2022
Expertise: African and African American literature, Anglophone Caribbean literature
On Leave: Fall 2022, Spring 2023
Expertise: African Women's and Gender Studies, Women in Conflict/ Postconflict, African Refugees, International Relations, African Politics.
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