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Faculty

Chinua Achebe

David and Marianna Fisher University Professor

African Literature

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Barrymore Bogues

Harmon Family Professor and Director, Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice

Africana Intellectual History and Political Thought

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Lundy Braun

Royce Family Professor in Teaching Excellence and Director of Undergraduate Studies

Pathology, Medicine and Science Studies

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Anani Dzidzienyo

Associate Professor

African/Latin American History and Politics

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Françoise N. Hamlin

Hans Rothfels Assistant Professor
African American History

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Paget Henry

Professor and Director of Graduate Studies

Caribbean Philosophy and Sociology

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Nancy Jacobs

Associate Professor

African History

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Keisha-Khan Y. Perry

Assistant Professor and Acting Director of Graduate Studies (Spring 2012)

African Diaspora Feminisms and Anthropology

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Tricia Rose

Professor

African American Cultural Politics and Gender Studies

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Ruth J. Simmons

18th University President

Comparative Literature

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Elmo Terry-Morgan

Associate Professor and Artistic Director of Rites and Reason Theatre

African American Theatre Arts and Playwriting

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Corey D. B. Walker

Associate Professor and Chair

African American Philosophy and Religion

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John Edgar Wideman

Asa Messer Professor

African American Literature

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Affiliated Faculty

Geri Augusto

Watson Fellow and Adjunct Associate Professor

Public Policy, Science and Technology Studies

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Olakunle George

Associate Professor

African/Post-Colonial Literature
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Glenn C. Loury

Merton P. Stoltz Professor

Economics

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Rolland Murray

Associate Professor

African American Literature

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Dianne C. Ritchie, MD, MPH

Clinical Assistant Professor, Family Medicine and Lead, Transcultural Community Health Initiative

Community Health

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Besenia Rodriguez

Associate Dean of the College

African Diaspora Studies

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Faculty Emeriti

Dorothy Denniston

Associate Professor Emerita of English and Africana Studies

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Distinguished Visiting Faculty

Brenda Marie Osbey

Visiting Professor

Africana Literature

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Visiting Faculty

Ifa Bayeza

Visiting Artist in Residence

African American Literature and

Theatre Arts

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Okey Ndibe

Visiting Assistant Professor

Africana Literature

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Charles E. Cobb, Jr.

Visiting Professor

African American History

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Greg Tate

Visiting Professor

African American Music and Culture

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Postdoctoral Fellows

Nduka Otiono

Postdoctoral Fellow

African/Postcolonial Studies, Orality and Popular Culture

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Katherine Smith

Postdoctoral Fellow

Art History and African Diaspora Art

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Visiting Scholars

Ike Achebe

Igbo Archival Dictionary Project

African History

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Soyica Diggs Colbert

Dartmouth College

African American Literature and Theatre Arts

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LaShonda K. Barnett

Hunter College - CUNY

African-American History and
Culture

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Régine Jean-Charles

Boston College

Francophone African and Caribbean Literature and Culture

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Staff

Karen Allen Baxter

Managing Director - Rites and
Reason Theatre

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Deborah L. Bowen

Administrative Office Assistant

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Alonzo T. Jones

Technical Director - Rites and
Reason Theatre

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Lisa A. Pardini

Assitant to Prof. Chinua Achebe

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Michael Carey Ruo

Academic Department Manager and Graduate Program Administrator

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