Graduate Faculty

Alexander-Floyd, Nikol

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Position: Associate Professor
Department: Department of Women's and Gender Studies / Political Science
Areas of Specialization: politics; law; women’s studies; black studies
Alexander, Leslie

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Position: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of History
Department: History
Areas of Specialization: African American and African Diaspora history, particularly the history of slavery, Black political and intellectual thought, and resistance movements
Britton, Akissi

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Position: Assistant Professor
Department: Department of Africana Studies
Areas of Specialization: intersections of race, gender, and African diasporic religions, specifically Orisa/Lucumí tradition; Black feminisms; diaspora/Black Atlantic theory; gentrification and neoliberal urban development; and the importance of the digital in the study of diasporic communities
Brown, Carolyn

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Position: Professor
Department: History
Areas of Specialization: West African labor and social history; masculinity; nationalism
Burrowes, Nicole A.

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Position: Assistant Professor
Department: History
Areas of Specialization: Modern Caribbean and 20th century African-American history; social justice movements; Black Internationalism; the politics of solidarity
Butler, Kim D.

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Position: Associate Professor
Department: Department of Africana Studies
Areas of Specialization: African diaspora studies; Brazil; Latin America/Caribbean
Cooper, Britney

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Position: Associate Professor
Department: Department of Africana Studies / Women's and Gender Studies
Areas of Specialization: Black women’s intellectual history; Black feminist thought; race and gender politics in hip hop and popular culture
Darby, Derrick

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Position: Distinguished Professor
Department: Philosophy
Dinzey-Flores, Zaire

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Position: Associate Professor
Department: Latino and Caribbean Studies / Sociology
Areas of Specialization: housing policy and design; race and ethnicity; urban planning
Erakat, Noura

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Position: Assistant Professor
Department: Department of Africana Studies
Areas of Specialization: Human Rights Law, Humanitarian Law, National Security Law, Refugee Law, Social Justice, and Critical Race Theory
Fuentes, Marisa J.

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Position: History Presidential Term Chair in African American History, 2017-2022, Associate Professor
Department: Department of History / Women’s and Gender Studies
Areas of Specialization: gender, sexuality, and slavery in the early modern Atlantic World
Johnson, Walton R.

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Position: Professor, Undergraduate Director
Department: Department of Africana Studies
Areas of Specialization: southern Africa; religion; social change
Kay Jones, Leslie

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Position: Assistant Professor
Department: Sociology
Areas of Specialization: social movements and social media, digital sociology, sociology of culture, sociology of race, ethnicity & immigration, sociology of technology
Khan, Kamal

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Position: Associate Professor
Department: Department of Africana Studies
Areas of Specialization: STEM, medicine
Kwate, Naa Oyo A.

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Position: Associate Professor
Department: Department of Africana Studies
Areas of Specialization: social determinants of African American health
Mathes, Carter

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Position: Associate Professor
Department: Department of English
Areas of Specialization: African American Literature; Twentieth Century Literature
Mouzon, Dawne

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Position: Associate Professor
Department: Sociology
Areas of Specialization: Population Health, Mental Health, Black American Populations, Family, Aging
Murch, Donna

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Position: Associate Professor
Department: Department of History
Areas of Specialization: mass incarceration/war on drugs; Black Power and Civil Rights
Ramsamy, Edward

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Position: Chairperson, Associate Professor
Department: Department of Africana Studies
Areas of Specialization: international development planning; geographies of globalization
Rhiney, Kevon

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Position: Associate Professor
Department: Geography
Areas of Specialization: food and agriculture, environmental/climate justice, critical disaster studies, Black radical thought, Caribbean
Robolin, Stéphane

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Position: Associate Professor
Department: Director for Center for African Studies / Department of English
Areas of Specialization: African Diaspora; African American
Rosado, Shantee

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Position: Assistant Professor
Department: Department of Africana Studies/ Department of Latino and Caribbean Studies
Areas of Specialization: fro-Latinx Studies, Emotions, Blackness and Anti-Blackness, Migration, Racial Ideologies, Political Ideologies, Hip Hop Studies, and Pop Culture
Shockley, Evie

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Position: Professor
Department: Department of English
Areas of Specialization: African-American & Diaspora; Creative Writing Studies
Stephens, Michelle A.

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Position: Professor
Department: Department of English
Areas of Specialization: African-American and Diaspora; Gender & Sexuality
Tate, Gayle T.

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Position: Associate Professor
Department: Department of Africana Studies / Women’s and Gender Studies
Areas of Specialization: African-American & Diaspora; Gender & Sexuality
Tompkins, Christien

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Position: Assistant Professor
Department: Anthropology
Areas of Specialization: Racialization, Anti-Blackness, Labor, Education, Design and Technology, Cities, Property, New Orleans/USA
Wall, Cheryl A. (in memoriam)

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Position: Board of Governors Zora Neale Hurston Distinguished Professor
Department: Department of English
Areas of Specialization: African-American & Diaspora; Gender & Sexuality
Wallace, Maurice

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Position: Associate Professor
Department: English
Areas of Specialization: African-American literature and literary theory, 19th century American literature and culture, US slavery and its afterlife, visual culture, sound studies, race and religion
White, Deborah Gray

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Position: Board of Governors Distinguished Professor
Department: Department of History / Women’s and Gender Studies
Areas of Specialization: African-American history; American Women's history; identity
White, Khadijah

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Position: Associate Professor
Department: Journalism and Media Studies, School of Communication and Information
Areas of Specialization: Politics and Identity in Media
Williams, Teona

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Position: Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow
Department: Department of Geography
Areas of Specialization: Black Geographies, 20th century African American and environmental history, and Black feminist theory
Zamalin, Alex

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Position: Professor
Department: Africana Studies and Political Science

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