Esther Viola Kurtz
Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology
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Husain Lateef
Assistant Professor, Brown School
Seanna Leath
Assistant Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences
Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Affiliated Faculty
Zachary Manditch-Prottas
Lecturer in African and African American Studies and American Culture Studies
(On sabbatical Fall '24)
Raven Maragh-Lloyd
Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies and Film and Media Studies
William J. Maxwell
Fannie Hurst Professor of Creative Literature, Professor of English and African and African American Studies
Thembelani (Themba) Mbatha
Assistant Professor of African & African American Studies
Assistant Professor (Courtesy Affiliation), English
Dwight A. McBride
Gerald Early Distinguished Professor of African & African American Studies,
Executive Director of CRE2,
Senior Advisor to the Chancellor
John Mundell
Postdoctoral Fellow, AFAS
Jose'-Maria Munoz
Senior Research Scholar
Sowande’ Mustakeem
Associate Professor of History and of African and African-American Studies
On Sabbatical Spring 2025
Mungai Mutonya
Teaching Professor in African and African American Studies
Kenya Summer Program Coordinator
Bronwyn Nichols Lodato
Assistant Professor, Education & African & African American Studies
Shanti Parikh
Chair of African and African-American Studies
Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology and of African and African-American Studies
Timothy Parsons
Professor of History and of African and African-American Studies
On Sabbatical Spring 2025
Gabriel Peoples
Past Postdoctoral Ford Foundation Fellow '22-'23
Assistant Professor, Gender Studies, Indiana University
Kyle Proehl
Editorial Assistant, James Baldwin Review
Michelle Purdy
Associate Professor of Education
Affiliated Faculty, African & African-American Studies, Urban Studies, Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, & Equity, and History
Jessica Samuel
Postdoctoral Fellow, AFAS
Kelly Schmidt
Reparative Public Historian and Lecturer, Special Collections Management Research Associate, WashU & Slavery Project
Samuel Shearer
Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies
(On sabbatical Spring '25)
Monisola Vaughan Smith
Postdoctoral Fellow, AFAS
Vetta Thompson
E. Desmond Lee Professor of Racial and Ethnic Diversity
Associate Dean for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
Wilmetta Toliver-Diallo
Senior Assistant Dean of Advising, College of Arts & Sciences
Lecturer in African and African-American Studies
Director of the Senegal Summer Program
Coordinator of the Washington University African Film Festival