Graduate Faculty

Amilcar Shabazz, Professor and Chair of Department, B.A., Texas at Austin, 1982; M.A., Lamar, 1990; Ph.D., Houston, 1996.

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

John Bracey, Jr., Professor, B.A., Roosevelt, 1964; A.B.D., Northwestern, 1969.

Dania Francis, Assistant Professor with joint appointment in Economics, B.A., Smith College, 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.

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

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

Britt Rusert, Assistant Professor, B.A., Allegheny College, 2003; Ph.D., Duke, 2009.

Steven C. Tracy, Professor, B.A., Cincinnati, 1977; M.A., 1980; Ph.D., 1985.

Adjunct/Associate Faculty

Whitney Battle-Baptiste, Anthropology

Joye Bowman, History

Lisa Green, Linguistics

Jose Hernandez, History

John Higginson, History

Emily Lordi, English

Agustin Lao-Montes, Sociology

Laura Lovett, History

Rachel Mordecai, English

Robert Paynter, Anthropology

TreaAndrea Russworm, English

Mwangi wa Githinji, Economics

Rowland Ola Abiodun, Professor of Black Studies, Amherst College

Dorothy E. Mosby, Associate Professor of Spanish, Latina/o, and Latin American Studies, Mount Holyoke College

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)