Faculty Areas of Specialty and Interest
Randa Abdelrahman, (M.S. Marist College), Arabic language
Joyce Bickerstaff, (Ph.D., University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana) Associate Professor. Department of Education & Africana Studies Program. Children's Literature, History of African-American Women, Socialization and Race in Social Sciences, Elementary Teacher Preparation.
Isolde Brielmaier, (Ph.D Columbia University 2003), Adjunct Assistant Professor, Art Department. African and International Contemporary Art and Photography.
Patricia-Pia Célérier, (Doctorat és Lettres, Sorbonne-Paris IV) Associate Professor, French. Department. French-speaking African literatures and cultures, Gender Studies and Immigration.
Lisa Gail Collins, (Ph.D. University of Minnesota) Associate Professor, Art Department. African American folklore, art, history and material culture, and twentieth-century social and cultural movements.
Eve Dunbar, (Ph.D University of Texas at Austin) Assistant Professor, English Department African American Literature and Culture, African Diaspora & Women writers of Color.
Haddad, Tagreed (B. Sc, H.D Al-Balqa, Applied University, Jordan) , Arabic Language
Diane Harriford, (Ph.D., SUNY Stony Brook) Associate Professor, Sociology Department. Black women, Sexuality and Political Formations, Women's Studies, Stratification, Sex and Gender, Social Movements and Racial Construction
Kiese Laymon, (MFA., Indiana University) Assistant Professor, English. Fiction, expository writing, African-American literature, Southern literature, gender studies.
Timothy P. Longman, (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison) Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and Africana Studies Program. Africa and the African Diaspora politics, Multiculturalism, Human Rights & Religion and politics.
Candice Lowe (Ph.D., Indiana University) Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology,
Lawrence H. Mamiya (Ph.D., Columbia University), Professor, Department of Religion & Africana Studies Program. Black Muslims, Islam in America & United States Criminal Justice System
Mampilly, Zacahariah, (B.APh.D. University of California, Los Angeles) Civil wars and rebel movements; terrorism; race, ethnicity and nationalism; and the international relations of the Third World.
Mia L. Mask, (Ph.D., New York University) Assistant Professor, Film Department Feminist film theory, African American film history and theory & documentary films.
Mills, Quincy, (Ph.D University of Chicago), African American urban and business history, race and segregation, and social and political movements.
Mootacem Mhiri, (Ph.D candidate, Penn State University), Visiting Assistant Professor, Africana Studies Program. Arabic Language & Literature, Comparative Literature,
Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert, (Ph.D., New York University) Professor, Hispanic Studies and Africana Studies Program). Caribbean literature and culture
Ismail Rashid, (Ph.D., McGill University) Associate Professor, History Department & Africana Studies Program. Colonialism, Pan-Africanism and Contemporary African conflicts.
Dennis Reid, (M.A. Yale University), Adjunct Lecturer, Black British & Caribbean Literature, Film, Music and Drama.
Simpson, Tyrone, (Ph.D., Indiana University) Assistant Professor, Department of English Literary Urbanism, 20th Century American Literature,
Judith Weisenfeld, (Ph.D. Princeton University), Associate Professor, Department of Religion African-American religious history, religion in American culture, and religion and American film.
Laura Yow, (Ph.D. Yale) Assistant Professor, English Department. Caribbean literatures, African American literature, African Diaspora studies, postcolonial theory, and the literature of the U.S. South.