Ama Bemma Adwetewa-Badu
Assistant Professor of English
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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
John Baugh
Margaret Bush Wilson Professor in Arts & Sciences, Professor of Psychology, Anthropology, Education, English, Linguistics, and African and African-American Studies
Iver Bernstein
Professor of History, African and African-American Studies, and American Culture Studies
J. Dillon Brown
Associate Professor of English
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
Carol Camp Yeakey
Marshall S. Snow Professor of Arts & Sciences, Professor of Education, Urban Studies, African and African American Studies, and American Culture Studies
Founding Director of the Center on Urban Research & Public Policy and the Interdisciplinary Program in Urban Studies
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 the Program in American Culture Studies
Faculty Affiliate in History
Faculty Affiliate in the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Equity (CRE2)
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
Nathan Dize
Assistant Professor of French
Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies (Courtesy Affiliation)
Gerald Early
Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters, Professor of African & African American Studies & English
Lauren Eldridge Stewart
Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology
Performing Arts Department (Affiliate)
Department of African and African-American Studies (Affiliate)
Rowhea Elmesky
Interim Chair of Education
Associate Professor of Education
Tomos Evans
Assistant Professor, Art History and Archaeology and African and African-American Studies
Jonathan Fenderson
Associate Professor of African and African American Studies
(On sabbatical Fall/Spring '24-'25)
Ron Himes
Henry E. Hampton, Jr. Artist-in-Residence
Justin A. Joyce
Senior Publications Editor / Managing Editor, James Baldwin Review
Tamsin Kimoto
Assistant Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
David Kirkman
Artist-in-Residence