Director

Affiliated Faculty

Faculty

Shakita Thomas Kpetay, Assistant Professor of Education and Africana Studies

Shakita Thomas Kpetay

Assistant Professor of Education and Africana Studies


Associated Faculty

Kendell Coker, Assistant Professor of Psychology

Kendell Coker

Assistant Professor of Psychology

Community/Gun Violence • Trauma • Criminal/Juvenile Justice • Systemic Racism • Mental Health Law • Social Justice


Shani Collins-Achille, Professor of Dance

Shani Collins-Achille

Professor of Dance

Dance theory and composition • West African dance and folklore • Somatic practices • Dance history


Hubert Cook, Assistant Professor of English

Hubert Cook

Assistant Professor of English

Black studies • African American and Caribbean literature and culture • Black sentience • Narrative theory • Affect studies • Gender studies


Taylor Desloge, Visiting Assistant Professor of History

Taylor  Desloge

Visiting Assistant Professor of History


Simon D. Feldman, Chair of the Department of Philosophy, Associate Professor of Philosophy

Simon D. Feldman

Chair of the Department of Philosophy, Associate Professor of Philosophy

Ethics • Moral psychology • Feminist philosophy • Philosophy of law


Isaac Gottesman, Lenore Tingle Howard '42 Associate Professor of Education, Department Chair

Isaac  Gottesman

Lenore Tingle Howard '42 Associate Professor of Education, Department Chair

History of Education, Ideas, and Left Movements in the U.S., 1945- Present • Critical Theories of Education • History of Education as an Academic Field of Study


Rashelle Litchmore, Assistant Professor of Human Development

Rashelle Litchmore

Assistant Professor of Human Development

Ethnic and Racial Identity • Middle childhood and adolescent development • Social and education policy • Applied social psychology • Intersectionality • Qualitative methods


Daniel Moak, Associate Professor of Government

Daniel Moak

Associate Professor of Government

American Politics • Race and Ethnic Politics • Public Policy • Constitutional Law • American Political Thought


E. Carla Parker-Athill, George and Carol Milne Assistant Professor of Biology

E. Carla Parker-Athill

George and Carol Milne Assistant Professor of Biology

Molecular Neuroscience • Neurobiology • Immunology


Kate Rushin, Professor of English, Poet in Residence

Kate  Rushin

Professor of English, Poet in Residence

Creative Writing/Poetry • 20th Century Black Women Writers • The African American Poetic Tradition • Women of Color Feminisms and Intersectionality • American Popular Culture, Media, Language and Poetry


Salma Siddique, Visiting Associate Professor of Psychoanalytic Anthropology in Human Development

Salma Siddique

Visiting Associate Professor of Psychoanalytic Anthropology in Human Development

(Auto) Ethnography • Displacement, Loss, Absence, and the search for meaning • Intertextuality and Intermingling • Undocumented-Untitled and (In)difference • Ambivalence, Ambiguity and Paradox • infant, child, adolescent & family work • Transracial Adoption • Relational Ethics


Matthew Swagler, Assistant Professor of History

Matthew  Swagler

Assistant Professor of History

Modern Africa • Decolonization • Africa and the United States • Youth and Childhood • The Global 1960s


Steering Committee:

  • Kendell Coker
  • Shani Collins
  • Hubert Cook
  • Taylor Desloge
  • Cherise Harris
  • Andrew Lopez
  • Carla Parker-Athill
  • Salma Siddique
  • Matt Swagler