Graduate Faculty

Stephanie Shonekan, Professor and Chair, B.A., University of Jos, Nigeria, 1988; M.A. University of Ibadan, Nigeria, 1990; Ph.D., Indiana at Bloomington, 2003.

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

John H. Bracey, Jr., Professor, B.A., Roosevelt, 1964.

Dania Francis, Assistant Professor with Joint Appointment in Economics, B.A., Smith, 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 with Joint Appointment in Sociology, Ph.D.,  New York at Binghamton, 2003.

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

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

Britt Rusert, Associate Professor and Chief Undergraduate Advisor, 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.

Steven Tracy, Distinguished 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)