Faculty & Staff
The Africana Studies program is able to offer a rich curriculum because it draws upon the expertise of faculty from all over the campus, whose teaching and scholarship cover an impressive array of academic fields: literatures, history, sciences, the arts, sociology, political science, and education are all represented in the courses offered, and cross-listed, in the program.
- Joyce Bickerstaff, Associate Professor of Education and Africana Studies
- Isolde Brielmaier, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art
- Olga Bush, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and Hispanic Studies
- Patricia-Pia Célérier, Associate Professor of French
- Lisa Gail Collins, Associate Professor of Art on the Class of 1951 Chair
- Eve Dunbar, Assistant Professor of English
- Sarita McCoy Gregory, Assistant Professor of Political Science
- Diane Harriford, Professor of Sociology and Director of Women's Studies
- Ola Hashad, Language Fellow in Arabic
- Kiese Laymon, Assistant Professor of English
- Timothy Longman, Associate Professor of Political Science and Africana Studies
- Candice M. Lowe, Assistant Professor of Anthropology on the Class of 1951 Chair
- Lawrence H. Mamiya, Professor of Religion and Africana Studies on the Mattie M. Paschall Davis and Norman H. Davis Chair
- Zachariah Cherian Mampilly, Assistant Professor of Political Science
- Mia Mask, Associate Professor of Film and Chair of Film
- Mootacem Mhiri, Visiting Assistant Professor of Africana Studies
- Quincy T. Mills, Assistant Professor of History
- Peggy Piesche, Visiting Instructor of German Studies
- Ismail Rashid, Associate Professor of History and Africana Studies and Director of Africana Studies Program
- Dennis Reid, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Africana Studies
- Tyrone Simpson II, Assistant Professor of English
- Laura Yow, Assistant Professor of English
Staff
- Patricia Mathis (Administrative Assistant)