Graduate Faculty

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

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

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

Dania Francis, Assistant Professor of Economics and Afro-American Studies, B.A., Smith College, 2001; M.A., Harvard, 2003; A.M., Duke, 2010; Ph.D., 2013.

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

Agustin Lao-Montes,  Associate Professor of Sociology, B.A., Catholic University of Puerto Rico, 1976; M.A., New York at Binghamton, 1997; Ph.D., 2002.

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

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

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

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

Adjunct/Associate Faculty

Whitney Battle-Baptiste, Associate Professor of Anthropology

Joye Bowman, Professor of History

Lisa Green, Professor of Linguistics

John Higginson, Professor of History

Emily Lordi, Associate Professor of English

Laura Lovett, Associate Professor of History

Rachel Mordecai, Associate Professor of English

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

Robert Paynter, Anthropology

TreaAndrea Russworm, Associate Professor of English

Demetria Shabazz, Assistant Professor of Communication

Mwangi wa Githinji, Associate Professor of Economics

Faculty Emeriti

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

Archie Shepp, Retired (2002)

Nelson Stevens, Retired (2002)

William Strickland, Retired (2013)

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

Ekwueme Michael Thelwell, Professor Emeritus (2009)

Robert Paul Wolff, Professor Emeritus (2008)