School of Arts and Sciences
Cheikh Anta Mbacke Babou
Associate Professor of History
Research Interests:
- African History and the History of Islam in Africa
- Francophone West Africa from the 19th century
- Contemporary African diasporas in France and the United States
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Herman Beavers
Associate Professor of English
Research Interests:
- 20th Century African American Literary and Cultural Studies
- Jazz Studies
- Gender Studies
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Mary Frances Berry
Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought
Professor of History
Research Interests:
- African American History
- History of American Law
- History of Law and Social Policy
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Anthea Butler
Associate Professor of Religious Studies
Research Interests:
- Pentecostalism
- Evangelicalism
- African American Religion
- Gender and Sexuality
- Popular religion and culture
- Global Christianity
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Camille Zubrinsky Charles
Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor in the Social Sciences
Professor of Sociology and Education
Director, Center for Africana Studies
Research Interests:
- Racial inequality
- Racial attitudes and intergroup relations
- Racial residential segregation
- Minorities in higher education
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Thadious Davis
Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought
Professor of English
Research Interests:
- African American literature
- Southern literature with an emphasis on issue of race, region, and gender
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Robert F. Engs
Professor of History Emeritus
Research Interests:
- The Postbellum era, specifically the responses of the freedpeople and white Southerners to emancipation
- The roles of education, religion, and of missionaries in the emancipation process
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Ann Farnsworth-Alvear
Associate Professor of History
Research Interests:
- Colombian Choco
- The history of race in Latin America
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Daniel Gillion
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Research Interests:
- Racial and Ethnic Politics, Political Behavior, Public Opinion, Judicial Politics
- The American Presidency
- Questions of political participation
- Institutional influences on citizens' behavior
- Governmental responsiveness to citizens' concerns.
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Larry Gladney
Professor of Physics
Research Interests:
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Steven Hahn
Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of History
Research Interests:
- Comparative history of slavery and emancipation
- The social and political history of nineteenth-century America
- History of the American South
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John L. Jackson, Jr.
Richard Perry University Professor of Communication and Anthropology
Research Interests:
- Ethnographic methods in media analysis
- Impact of mass media on urban life
- Globalization and the remaking of ethnic/racial diasporas. Visual studies and theories of reality
- Racialization and media technology
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Tsitsi Jaji
Assistant Professor of English
Research Interests:
- Transnational Black cultural relations and exchanges
- The relationship between music and literature
- Theorizations of listening
- Africana expressions of feminism
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Michael Katz
Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History
Research Interests:
- History of American education
- History of urban social structure and family organization
- History of social welfare and poverty
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Lydie E. Moudileno
Associate Professor of Romance Languages
Research Interests:
- Francophone studies, with a focus on the literatures of the Caribbean and Sub-saharan Africa
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Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr.
Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor of Music
Research Interests:
- African-American and American music
- Jazz
- Cultural studies
- Popular music
- Film studies
- Historiography
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Adolph Reed
Professor of Political Science
Research Interests:
- American and African American politics and political thought
- Urban politics
- American Political Development
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Timothy Rommen
Associate Professor of Music
Research Interests:
- Caribbean folk, popular sacred music, popular music
- Critical theory
- Ethics
- Diaspora
- Intellectual history of ethnomusicology
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Barbara D. Savage
Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought
Professor of History
Research Interests:
- Twentieth century African American history
- History of American religious and social reform movements
- History of the relationship between media and politics.
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Rogers M. Smith
Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science
Research Interests:
- Public Law
- American political thought
- Political Thought
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Thomas J. Sugrue
Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Professor of History and Sociology
Research Interests:
- Twentieth-century American politics
- Urban history
- Civil Rights, and race
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Deborah A. Thomas
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Research Interests:
- Nationalism and Globalization
- The Caribbean
- Race and Gender
- Labor Migration
- Transnationalism and Diaspora
- Cultural Politics
- Performance
- Violence and the Transformation of Space
- Culture and Political Economy
- Popular Culture
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Salamishah Tillet
Assistant Professor of English
Research Interests:
- Twentieth-century African-American literature and visual and performance arts
- Cultural studies
- Feminism
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Eve Troutt Powell
Associate Professor of History
Interim Faculty Associate Director, Center for Africana Studies
Interim Chair, PhD Program in Africana Studies
Research Interests:
- The relationship between Africa and the Middle East
- History of African slavery in the Nile valley
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Robert Vitalis
Professor of Political Science
Research Interests:
- Race and American International Relations Theory
- State and Market Formation in Saudi Arabia
- The Political and Cultural Economy of the World Oil Industry
- American Expansionism
- History of International Relations and Development Studies
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Tamara Walker
Assistant Professor of History
Research Interests:
- Colonial Latin America
- Comparative slavery
- Material culture
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Tukufu Zuberi
Professor and Chair of Sociology
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
- Africana Studies
- Mortality in Africa
- Interracial Contact and Social Status
- South African Migration System
- Population and Health
- Sociology
- Population studies
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Law School
Anita L. Allen
Deputy Dean and Henry R. Silverman Professor of Law
Professor of Philosophy
Research Interests:
- Privacy Law, Theory and Values
- Legal Theory
- Philosophy
- Contemporary Ethics and Bioethics
- Mental Illness
- Accountability
- Race Relations
- Gender and the Law
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Regina Austin
William A. Schnader Professor of Law
Research Interests:
- Torts
- Insurance
- Law & Cultural Studies
- Minority Legal Feminism
- Environmental Justice
- Economic Discrimination
- Law-related Documentary Film Studies
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Graduate School of Education
Vivian Gadsden
William T. Carter Professor in Child Development and Education
Research Interests:
- Cultural and social factors affecting learning and literacy across the life-course and within families,
- Intergenerational learning
- Relationships between literacy in families and issues of culture, race, gender, and poverty in diverse learning contexts
- Interconnectedness among families' political, cultural, and social histories and racialized identities
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Marybeth Gasman
Associate Professor
Research Interests:
- Philanthropy and historically black colleges
- Black leadership
- Contemporary fundraising issues at black colleges
- African-American giving
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Shaun R. Harper
Associate Professor
Research Interests:
- Race and gender in higher education
- Black male college participation and achievement
- College environments, student outcomes, and engagement
- Student affairs at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
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Diana Slaughter-Defoe
Constance E. Clayton Professor in Urban Education
Research Interests:
- Urban education
- Primary education
- Child development
- Home/school partnerships
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Howard C. Stevenson
Associate Professor and Chair, Applied Psychology and Human Development Division
Research Interests:
- African-American psychology
- At-risk youth and high-risk boys
- Family and parental engagement
- Racial integration and re-segregation
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Duane E. Thomas
Assistant Professor
Research Interests:
- At-risk children and youth
- Academic-community partnerships
- Clinical and educational psychology
- Violence prevention
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Wharton School
Kenneth L. Shropshire
David W. Hauck Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics
Research Interests:
- Sports industry
- Sports law contracts; antitrust; negotiation and dispute resolution
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School of Nursing
Loretta Sweet-Jemmott
van Ameringen Professor in Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing
Research Interests:
- Designing and evaluating interventions to reduce HIV risk-associated sexual behaviors
- Health outcomes research including strategies to reduce other behavior-linked health problems, e.g. cancer (smoking), heart disease
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School of Social Policy and Practice
Ezekiel Dixon-Román
Assistant Professor
Research Interests:
- Educational difference as the inheritance of discursive constructions of difference and the potential practices and processes that may enable the mediation of this cumulative effect.
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Damon Freeman
Assistant Professor
Research Interests:
- African American intellectual history
- Critical race theory
- Social policy
- Social movements
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