William J. Maxwell
Fannie Hurst Professor of American Literature, Professor of English and African and African American Studies
Acting Director of English Undergraduate Studies, 2023-2024
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Thembelani (Themba) Mbatha
Postdoctoral Fellow, AFAS ('23 -'24) Assistant Professor, AFAS (Fall '24 - )
Dwight A. McBride
Gerald Early Distinguished Professor
Senior Advisor to the Chancellor
(On leave '23-'24 school year)
Shelley Mitchom
Administrative Coordinator
John Mundell
Postdoctoral Fellow, AFAS
Jose' Munoz Martin
Senior Research Scholar
Sowande’ Mustakeem
Associate Professor of History and of African and African-American Studies
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
Gabriel Peoples
Past Postdoctoral Ford Foundation Fellow '22-'23
Assistant Professor, Gender Studies, Indiana University
Michelle Purdy
Associate Professor of Education
Director of the Undergraduate Program in Educational Studies
Director of Academic Planning
Affiliated Faculty, African and African-American Studies, Urban Studies, and Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Equity
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
Faculty of Urban Humanities
Vetta Thompson
E. Desmond Lee Professor of Racial and Ethnic Diversity
Associate Dean for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
Wilmetta Toliver-Diallo
Assistant Dean in the 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
Miguel Valerio
Assistant Professor of Spanish
Performing Arts (Affiliate)
Rebecca Wanzo
Chair and Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
African and African-American Studies, Courtesy Affiliation
American Culture Studies, Courtesy Affiliation
English, Courtesy Affiliation
Geoff Ward
Professor of African and African-American Studies
Faculty Affiliate in Sociology and American Culture Studies
Director, WashU & Slavery Project,
Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity (CRE2)
Gabrielle Weeden
Community & Program Coordinator
Rafia Zafar
Professor of English, African and African-American Studies, and American Culture Studies