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David Amponsah

Assistant Professor of Africana Studies
  • African Religious History
  • Health and Healing in Africa
  • Religion, Politics, and Power
  • Colonialism and Empire
  • Africa–India Relations

Mary Frances Berry

Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought

Professor of History and Africana Studies

  • African American History
  • History of American Law
  • History of Law and Social Policy

Anthea Butler

Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Africana Studies

On Leave

Presidential Fellow at Yale University for 2019-2020

Graduate Group Chair, Department of Religious Studies

  • Pentecostalism
  • Evangelicalism
  • African American Religion
  • Gender and Sexuality
  • Popular religion and culture
  • Global Christianity

John L. Jackson Jr.

Richard Perry University Professor of Communication and Anthropology

Professor of Africana Studies

Dean, Annenberg School for Communication

  • Ethnographic Film and Visual Studies
  • Race Theory
  • Globalization, Transnationalism, and Diaspora
  • Media Anthropology
  • Urban Studies
  • Cultural Studies
  • Performance Theory
  • Popular Culture

Grace Sanders Johnson

Assistant Professor of Africana Studies
  • Transnational Feminisms
  • Oral History
  • African Diasporic Studies
  • Modern Caribbean History
  • Latin American History

Jasmine E. Johnson

Assistant Professor of Africana Studies
  • Critical Ethnography
  • Dance and Performance Studies
  • Diaspora Theory
  • Black Feminisms
  • West Africa

Eve Troutt Powell

Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of History and Africana Studies
  • The relationship between Africa and the Middle East
  • History of African slavery in the Nile valley

Dorothy E. Roberts

George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights

Professor of Africana Studies

Director, Program on Race, Science, and Society

  • Race and Gender
  • Family
  • Criminal Justice
  • Bioethics
  • Sociology of Science
  • Critical Race Theory

Timothy Rommen

Davidson Kennedy Professor in the College Professor of Music and Africana Studies
  • Caribbean Studies
  • Coloniality/decoloniality
  • The political economy of music and sound
  • Creole musical formations
  • Tourism
  • Diaspora
  • Music and spirituality
  • The ethics of style

Barbara D. Savage

Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought

On-Leave for 2019-2020

Professor of Africana Studies

 

  • Twentieth Century African American history
  • History of American religious and social reform movements
  • History of the relationship between media and politics

Heather A. Williams

Geraldine R. Segal Professorship in American Social Thought

Professor of Africana Studies
On Leave for 2019-2020

  • Nineteenth Century African American History
  • History of Slavery in the American South
  • Jamaican Migrations
  • Race in American History

Tukufu Zuberi

Lasry Family Professor of Race Relations

Professor of Sociology and Africana Studies

 

  • Sociology
  • Human Rights
  • Global Africa
  • Africana Studies
  • Population and Health
  • Film