Our People

J.H. Hexter Professor in the Humanities, Professor Emeritus of African and African-American Studies, History (Affiliate), and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (Affiliate)

Professor of African and African American Studies, Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Faculty Affiliate in the Performing Arts Department and the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Equity

​Margaret Bush Wilson Professor in Arts & Sciences, Professor of Psychology, Anthropology, Education, English, Linguistics, and African and African-American Studies

Professor of History, African and African-American Studies, and American Culture Studies

Associate Professor of English

Associate Professor of Social Work

Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs and Diversity

Marshall S. Snow Professor of Arts & Sciences, Professor of Education, Urban Studies, International and Area Studies, African and African American Studies, and American Culture Studies

Head of Library Diversity Initiatives & Outreach

William M. Van Cleve Professor of Law

Past Postdoctoral Fellow, AFAS '22-'23

Lecturer in African and African-American Studies

​Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters, Interim Director of the Center for the Study of Race

Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology

Director of Graduate Studies

​Associate Professor of African and African-American Studies

​Assistant Professor of African and African-American Studies and Performing Arts (Affiliate)

Henry E. Hampton, Jr. Artist-in-Residence

Senior Publications Editor / Managing Editor, James Baldwin Review

Artist-in-Residence

Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology

Lecturer in African and African American Studies and American Culture Studies

Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies and Film and Media Studies

Fannie Hurst Professor of American Literature, Professor of English and African and African American Studies