Department of African and African American Studies

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

Expertise: African and African American art history, African aesthetics, African cinema, contemporary art and theory

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

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

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: African and African American literature, Anglophone Caribbean literature

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

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

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: Comparative law, social welfare, global justice and human rights, economic philosophies, legal argumentation

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: Linguistic anthropology. Language ideology. Psychological anthropology. Personhood. Essentialism. Colonialism and postcoloniality. Identity. Whiteness studies. Military studies. Nationalism. East Africa and United States.

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