Graduate Faculty

All Faculty of the W.E.B. Du Bois Department and affiliated faculty within the Five Colleges.

Anne Kerth, Assistant Professor, B.A., Williams College, 2011; M.A. Princeton, 2015; Ph.D., Princeton, 2019.

Agustin Lao-Montes, Professor with Joint Appointment in Sociology, Ph.D., New York at Binghamton, 2003.

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

Roshad Meeks, Post Doctoral Fellow, B.A., Syracuse, 2024; M.A., Tufts, 2024; Ph.D., Tufts, 2024.

Daisy Guzman Nunez, Assistant Professor, B.S., Allegheny College, 2014; M.A., Texas at Austin, 2018; Ph.D., Texas at Austin, 2023.  

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

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

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

David Swiderski, Lecturer, B.A., UMass Amherst, 2002; M.A. UMass Amherst, 2007; Ph.D., UMass Amherst, 2013.

Bianki Torres, Lecturer, B.A., Rhode Island College, 2015; M.A. UMass Amherst, 2019; Ph.D., UMass Amherst, 2024.

Yolanda Covington-Ward, Chair and Professor, B.A., Brown University, 2001; M.A., Michigan at Ann Arbor, 2003; Ph.D., Michigan at Ann Arbor, 2008.