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Faculty in African & African-American Studies

 

Antonio D. Tillis, Chair

• Research Interests: Latin American, Afro-Hispanic, US Latino, African Diaspora and comparative literatures,
  film studies and contemporary theory

Michael Chaney

• Research Interests: Nineteenth-century American and African-American literature and culture

Rashauna Chenault

• Research Interests: 19th century African Diaspora, African-American history, women and gender, US South

Ayo Abietou Coly

• Research Interests: African literatures and cinema, postcolonial theory, colonial and postcolonial masculinities, human rights

Soyica Diggs Colbert

• Research Interests: African-America drama, literature, performance, and culture, women's and gender studies

Laura Edmondson

• Research Interests: East African theatre and performance; theatre activism; performance of violence and war

J. Martin Favor

• Research Interests: Black identity in literature

Rodolfo A. Franconi

• Research Interests: Luso-Brazilian literature and contemporary Latin American literature

Susanne E. Freidberg

• Research Interests: Food & agriculture, Africa ecology

Bed Prasad Giri

• Research Interests: Postcolonial literature and theory

Reena Goldthree

• Research Interests: Latin American and Caribbean history, Caribbean literature, African Diaspora studies, gender studies

Frederick Haas

• Interests: Saxophone, jazz piano, jazz improvisation, jazz history and music theory

Douglas Haynes

• Research Interests: History of India, labor history of India, colonialism

James Igoe

• Research Interests: Cultural anthropology, political ecology, environmental justice, biodiversity conservation, the commodification of nature, globalization, identity, indigenism, and civil society

Deborah K. King

• Research Interests: African-American women's political ideology and activism, sociology of law

Sharlene Mollett

• Research Interests: Indigenous geographies, race and property rights, political ecology, Latin America, cultural geography, feminist theory 

Russell Rickford

• Research Interests: Black power, the black radical tradition, black nationalism and black political culture in the 20th century U.S.

Naaborko Sackeyfio

• Research Interests: West Africa, political and urban history, African Diaspora studies

Hafiz F. Shabazz

• Interests: Improvisation and nonwestern music

George Trumbull IV

• Research Interests: North Africa, Islam in Africa, Islamic Africa in global perspective, environmental history

Shalene Vásquez

• Research Interests: African American, Caribbean and other Black diasporic literatures

Keith L. Walker

• Research Interests: 19th and 20th century French literature; the intersection of French and Francophone literary cultures; Aimé Césaire; colonial and postcolonial studies; Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Visiting Faculty

Maria Aparecida Andrade Salgueiro (winter term)

• Professor of North American Literature and Culture at the Department of Anglo-Germanic Letters, Institute of Letters, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tel: 603-646-3595, 104 Choate House    
• Ph.D. Fluminense Federal University (2000)
• Research Interests: literature of contemporary Afro-American and Afro-Brazilian women writers, as well as the question of translation and cultural mediation in a globalized world