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Jean Allman
Emeritus J.H. Hexter Professor in the Humanities, Professor Emerita of African and African American Studies, History (Affiliate), and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (Affiliate)
Marlon M. Bailey
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
Associate Chair
Co-Director of Graduate Studies
Sheretta Butler-Barnes
Dean’s Distinguished Professorial Scholar, Professor of Developmental Psychology
Kia Lilly Caldwell
Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs and Diversity
Professor of African & African American Studies
Courtesy joint appointment at the Brown School of Social Work
Rudolph Clay
Head of Library Diversity Initiatives & Outreach
Senior Lecturer in African American Studies
AFAS Subject Librarian
Joanna Dee Das
Associate Professor of Dance
Director of Graduate Studies of MFA Program in Dance
Faculty Affiliate in African & African American Studies
Faculty Affiliate in the Program in American Culture Studies
Faculty Affiliate in the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Equity (CRE2)
Faculty Affiliate in History
Adrienne Davis
William M. Van Cleve Professor of Law
Vice Provost of the University
Ashley Dennis
Past Postdoctoral Fellow, AFAS '22-'23
El Hadji Samba Amadou Diallo
Senior Lecturer in African and African American Studies
Gerald Early
Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters, Professor of African & African American Studies & English
Jonathan Fenderson
Associate Professor of African and African American Studies
(On sabbatical Fall/Spring '24-'25)
Justin A. Joyce
Senior Publications Editor / Managing Editor, James Baldwin Review
David Kirkman
Artist-in-Residence