Awam Amkpa
Associate Professor
Major Interests: African diasporic drama and film; transnationalism, postcolonial theory. |
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Renée Blake
Associate Professor
Major Interests: Urban sociolinguistics; African American Vernacular English; languages and cultures of the Caribbean. |
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J. Michael Dash
Professor
Major Interests: Francophone/Caribbean Literature; literary theory; translation French to English |
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Ed Guerrero
Major Interests: Black cinema, black stardom & celebrity; Africa, Asia in cinema; science fiction & horror cinema, utopia/dystopia; mapping the Black Pacific; interrogations of the representational burden of race and difference. |
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Robert Hinton
Clinical Associate Professor
Major Interests: Agricultural Labor in the African Atlantic. |
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Jennifer L Morgan
Professor; Director of Graduate Studies
Major Interests: Major Interests Early African American History, Comparative Slavery, Histories of Racial Ideology. |
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Michael Ralph
Major Interests: Neoliberalism, globalization, postcolonialism, diaspora, youth, crime, citizenship, sovereignty, security, labor, politics, sports. |
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Deborah Willis
Major Interests: Visual Culture, Photography |
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Thomas O. Beidelman
Professor
Major Interests: Social anthropology; religion; colonial history; oral literature; Africa and ancient Greece.
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Derrick Bell
Visiting Scholar
Major Interests: Constitutional law; current constitutional issues |
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Kamau Brathwaite
Professor
Major Interests: Caribbean literature, culture, and society |
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Paulette Caldwell
Professor
Major Interests: Critical race theory; employment discrimination law; race and gender in American law and culture |
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Arlene Davila
Professor
Major Interests: race and ethnicity; nationalism; media studies; political economy, globalization; the politics of museum and visual representation; urban studies; consumption; Latinos in the U.S. |
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David J. Dent
Associate Professor
Major Interests: African American culture, education, race, and the media; television reporting |
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Manthia Diawara
Professor
Major Interests: Black American film, literary and cultural studies, black film in Africa and Europe.
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Michael D. Dinwiddie
Professor
Major Interests: Cultural studies; African American theatre history; dramatic writing; filmmaking; ragtime music |
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Troy Duster
Professor
Major Interests: Sociology of science; sociology of knowledge; deviance and control; sociology of law; race and ethnicity; policy; deviance. |
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Jason King
Assistant Professor |
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Ada Ferrer
Associate Professor
Major Interests: Latin America and Caribbean; Cuba; comparative slavery, nationalism, revolution
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Michael Gomez
Professor
Major Interests: African diaspora; Islam in West Africa. |
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Phillip Brian Harper
Professor; Chair, Department of English
Major Interests: Modern and contemporary U.S. literary and cultural studies; African-American literature and culture; gender and sexuality studies |
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Martha Hodes
Professor
Major Interests: I have several projects in progress: a short book about race in world history for Oxford University Press; research on the uses and meanings of narratives about human skin color in the United States, with attention to transnational racial systems; and a history of the New York City race riot of 1900, in which I explore this event in ever-widening geographical arenas, from the streetcorner on which a black laborer and a white policeman clashed on an August night during an intense heatwave, to the effects of the ensuing violence upon the neighborhood, the city, the North, the nation, and beyond.
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Richard Hull
Professor
Major Interests: Democratization in Africa; origins of segregation in South Africa. |
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Barbara Krauthamer
Assistant Professor |
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Elizabeth McHenry
Associate Professor
Major Interests: African-American literature, culture, and intellectual history; nineteenth and twentieth-century United States literature; History of the Book |
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Pamela Newkirk
Professor
Major Interests: urban issues, politics, history of minorities in the media. |
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Jeffrey Sammons
Professor
Major Interests: U. S. social and cultural history with research and teaching interests in African-American History, military history, black autobiography, film history, and sports history.
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Mary Schmidt-Campbell
Professor |
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John Victor Singler
Professor
Major Interests: sociolinguistics; pidgins and creoles; African American English; phonology. |
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Robert P Stam
Professor |
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Clyde Taylor
Professor
Major Interests: Politics of representation; vernacular modernisms; cinema and society; African American and African literature; cultural symbolism; African diaspora film and literature; cultural criticism; modernism and aesthetics. |
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Leonard Wantchekon
Professor
Major Interests: Political economy, development, applied game theory and comparative politics. |
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Markus Asper
Associate Professor; Director of Graduate Studies
Major Interests: Hellenistic poetry; ancient Greek science writing; the Greeks and the ancient near East; Old Comedy; sociology of knowledge; rhetoric of science |
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