Graduate Faculty

John Bracey, Jr., Professor and Chair, B.A., Roosevelt, 1964; A.B.D., Northwestern, 1969.

Manisha Sinha, Professor and Graduate Program Director, B.A., Delhi University, 1984; M.A., Stony Brook University, 1985; M.Phil., Columbia, 1988; Ph.D., 1994.

Dania Francis, Assistant Professor with joint appointment in Economics, B.A., Smith College, 2001; M.A., Harvard University, 2003; A.M., Duke University, 2010; Ph.D., Duke University, 2013.

A. Yemisi Jimoh, Professor, B.A., Washington, 1981; M.A.T., 1986; Ph.D., Houston, 1994.

Toussaint Losier, Assistant Professor, B.A., Harvard, 2004; M.A., University of Chicago, 2010; Ph.D., 2013. 

Karen (Kym) Y. Morrison, Assistant Professor, B.S., Duke, 1988; M.A., Florida, 1996; Ph.D., 2003.

Traci Parker, Assistant Professor, A.B., Cornell University, 2003; A.M., University of Chicago, 2004; Ph.D., 2013.

Britt Rusert, Assistant Professor, B.A., Allegheny College, 2003; Ph.D., Duke, 2009.

Amilcar Shabazz, Professor, B.A., Texas at Austin, 1982; M.A., Lamar, 1990; Ph.D., Houston, 1996.

James Smethurst, Professor, B.A., Southern Maine, 1980; M.A., City College of New York, 1988; Ph.D., Harvard, 1996.

Steven C. Tracy, Professor, B.A., Cincinnati, 1977; M.A., 1980; Ph.D., 1985.

Adjunct/Associate Faculty

Whitney Battle-Baptiste, Anthropology

Joye Bowman, History

Lisa Green, Linguistics

Jose Hernandez, History

John Higginson, History

Emily Lordi, English

Agustin Lao-Montes, Sociology

Laura Lovett, History

Rachel Mordecai, English

Robert Paynter, Anthropology

TreaAndrea Russworm, English

Mwangi wa Githinji, Economics

Rowland Ola Abiodun, Professor of Black Studies, Amherst College

Dorothy E. Mosby, Associate Professor of Spanish, Latina/o, and Latin American Studies, Mount Holyoke College

Faculty Emeriti

Ernest Allen, Jr., Professor Emeritus (2013).

Esther M.A. Terry, Professor Emerita (2009).

Ekwueme Michael Thelwell, Professor Emeritus (2009).