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People
Faculty
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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Jennifer L. Morgan
Professor
Major Interests: Early African American History, Comparative Slavery, Histories of Racial Ideology, Women and Gender |
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Michael Ralph
Assistant Professor
Major Interests: Citizenship, Sovereignty, Risk, Liability, Urban Youth Culture, Diaspora, Postcolonialism |
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e. Frances White
Professor |
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Deborah Willis
Major Interests: Visual Culture, Photography |
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Affiliated Faculty
Thomas O. Beidelman
Professor
Major Interests: Social anthropology, Africa, religion and symbolism, witchcraft and magic, history of colonialism, Christian missionaries, African literature, urban neighborhood and landscape preservation movements, history of British and European anthropology and sociology
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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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Jason King
Assistant Professor |
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Ada Ferrer
Professor
Major Interests: Cuba; comparative slavery, nationalism, revolution
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Michael A. Gomez
Professor
Major Interests: African diaspora; Islam in West Africa; Slavery |
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Phillip Brian Harper
Professor
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: 19th-century; race; Civil War and Reconstruction; gender; craft of historical writing |
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Richard Hull
Professor
Major Interests: Democratization in Africa; origins of segregation in South Africa. |
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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: African American representation in popular culture; 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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Nikhil Pal Singh
Associate Professor; SCA Director of Graduate Studies
Major Interests: Race, empire, and culture in 20th-century U.S.; black radicalism and US liberalism; U.S. foreign policy. |
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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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