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2009-2010 AAAS Faculty and Fellows

Antonio D. Tillis Chair and Associate Professor of African and African American Studies, Tel: 603-646-0224, 105 Choate House Ph.D. University of Missouri at Columbia (2000) Research Interests: Latin American, Afro-Hispanic, US Latino, African Diaspora and comparative literatures, film studies and contemporary theory

Hoyt S. Alverson

• Professor of Anthropology, Emeritus, Tel: 603-646-3336, 406A Silsby
• Ph.D. Yale University (1968)
• Research Interests: Socio-linguistics, cognitive anthropology

Ifi Amadiume (FRO)

• Professor of Religion, Tel: 603-646-1692, 306 Thornton Hall
• Ph.D. University of London, School of Oriental & African Studies (1984)
• Research Interests: African women in religions, cultures & societies

Raúl Bueno Chávez

• Professor of Spanish, and of Latin American, Latino and Caribbean Studies, Tel: 603-646-2822, 209 Dartmouth Hall
• Ph.D. University of San Agustin, Peru (1971)
• Research Interests: Latin American literacy theory and cultural studies, contemporary Spanish American poetry

Michael Chaney

• Assistant Professor of English, Tel: 603-646-2754, 7A Sanborn House
• Ph.D. Indiana University (2005)
• Research Interests: Nineteenth-century American and African American literature and culture 

Soyica Diggs Colbert

• Assistant Professor of English, Tel: 603-646-2927, 14 Sanborn House
• Ph.D. Rutgers University (2007)
• Research Interests: African America drama, literature, performance, and culture, women's and gender studies

Ayo Abietou Coly

• Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies, and of Comparative Literature, Tel: 603-646-1325, 202 Choate House
• Ph.D. The Pennsylvania State University (2001)
• Research Interests: African literatures and cinema, postcolonial theory, colonial and postcolonial masculinities, human rights

Laura Edmondson

• Assistant Professor of Theater, Tel: 603-646-3218, 103 Hopkins Center
• Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin
• Research Interests: African theater, African dance, trauma and theater

J. Martin Favor

• Associate Professor of English, Tel: 603-646-2329, 9 Sanborn House
• Ph.D. University of Michigan (1993)
• Research Interests: Black identity in literature

Susanne E. Freidberg

• Associate Professor of Geography, Tel: 603-646-3732, 16 Fairchild Hall
• Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley (1996)
• Research Interests: Food & agriculture, Africa ecology

Gretchen Gerzina

• Kathe Tappe Vernon Professor in Biography and Professor of English, Tel: 603-646-9363, 204 Sanborn House
• Ph.D. Stanford University (2005)
• Research Interests: Novel, Victorian literature, African American literature, Black British literature, biography

Bed Giri

• Assistant Professor of English, Tel: 603-646-2756, 3 Sanborn Hall
• Ph.D. University of Virginia
• Research Interests: Postcolonial literature and theory

Frederick Haas

• Adjunct Assistant Professor of Music, Tel: 802-436-1282
• A.B. (1986)
• Interests: Saxophone, jazz piano, jazz improvisation, jazz history and music theory

Douglas Haynes

• Associate Professor of History, Tel: 603-646-2145, 403 Carson Hall
• Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania
• Research Interests: History of India, labor history of India, colonialism

James Igoe

• Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Tel: 603-646-0926, 410 Silsby Hall
• Ph.D. Boston University (2000)
• Research Interests: Cultural anthropology, political ecology, environmental justice, biodiversity conservation, the commodification of nature, globalization, identity, indigenism, and civil society

Nelson Kasfir

• Professor of Government, Emeritus, Tel: 603-646-2549, 8 Silsby Hall
• Ph.D. Harvard University (1973)
• Research Interests: Guerrilla governance, East African and Sudanese politics, political economy, democratization

Deborah K. King

• Associate Professor of Sociology, Tel: 603-646-3410, 107 Silsby Hall
• Ph.D. Yale University (1982)
• Research Interests: African American women's political ideology and activism, sociology of law

Sharlene Mollett

• Assistant Professor of Geography, Tel: 603-646-0404, 404 Fairchild Hall
• Ph.D. University of Toronto
• Research Interests: Indigenous geographies, race and property rights, political ecology, Latin America, cultural geography, feminist theory 

Celia E. Naylor

• Associate Professor of History, Tel: 603-646-9783, 102 Choate House
• Ph.D. Duke University (2001)
• Research Interests: African American history, Native American history, African American women's history and literature

Russell Rickford

• Assistant Professor History, Tel: 603-646-    , Carson Hall
• Ph.D. Columbia University
• Research Interests: Black power, the black radical tradition, black nationalism and black political culture in the 20th century U.S.

Naaborko Sackeyfio

• Assistant Professor of History, Tel: 603-646-2365, 406 Carson Hall
• Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison (2008)
• Research Interests: West Africa, political and urban history, Africa Diaspora studies

Hafiz F. Shabazz

• Director, World Music Percussion Ensemble, and Adjunct Associate Professor of Music, Tel: 603-646-2172, 42 Hopkins Center
• M.Ed.  Cambridge College (1980)
• Interests: Improvisation and nonwestern music

George Trumbull IV

• Assistant Professor of History, Tel: 603-646-3425, 302 Carson Hall
• Ph.D. Yale University (2005)
• Research Interests: North Africa, Islam in Africa, Islamic Africa in global perspective, environmental history

Shalene Vásquez

• Assistant Professor English, Tel: 603-646-9927, 11 Sanborn Hall
• Ph.D. Rutgers University (2006)
• Research Interests: African American, Caribbean and other Black diasporic literatures

Keith L. Walker

• Professor of French & Italian Languages and Literatures, Tel: 603-646-2409, 201A Dartmouth Hall
• Ph.D. (1976)
• Research Interests: 19th and 20th century French literature

Visiting Professors

Randall Balmer (through the Religion Department)

• Tel: 603-646-3738, Thornton Hall
• Ph.D. Princeton University (1985)
• Research Interests: American religious history

Merle Hodge (through the English Department)

• Tel: 603-646-3451, 206 Sanborn House
• Ph.D. University of the West Indies (2007)
• Research Interests: Language of West Indian literature, family organization in the Caribbean, English language proficiency among specific Trinidadian groups

Visiting Instructors

Valerie Dickerson (through the Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies Program)

• Tel: 603-646-2541, 302A Silsby Hall
• Ph.D. University of California at Los Angeles (2009)
• Research Interests: Ethnomusicology, culture and the evangelical movement in Cuba, religions of the African Diaspora, African American music

Caroline Faria (through the Geography Department)

• Tel: 603-646-3732, 16 Fairchild Hall
• Ph.D. University of Washington (2009)
• Research Interests: Feminist political geography, gender and nationalism, qualitative methods, Sudan and the Sudanese diaspora 

Grace Nyamongo (through AAAS and the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding)

• Tel: 603-646-9786, 203 Choate House
• Ph.D. York University School of Women's Studies, Ontario, Canada (2009)
• Research Interests: Women and gender studies, African studies

Jessica Callaway Smolin (through the Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies Program)

• Tel: 603-646-1640, Silsby Hall
• Ph.D. Harvard University (2008)
• Research Interests: 19th and 20th century Brazilian literature, slavery and abolition, Afro-Brazilian literature, nineteenth-century print culture, immigration and ethnicity, comparative study of the Americas, literary theory, Brazilian cinema

Thurgood Marshall Dissertation Fellow

Reena Goldthree

• Pursuing Ph.D. in History from Duke University, Tel: 603-646-9785, 201 Choate House

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