African American Studies Faculty
Chair: Charles P. Henry

 

Professors

 

William M. "Bil" Banks, III, Ed.D. (Emeritus)
University of Kentucky
Counseling Psychology, Black Social Institutions

Charles Henry, Ph.D.
University of Chicago
Black Politics, Public Policy

Percy Hintzen, Ph.D.
Yale University
Political Sociology, Social Change

 

  Michel S. Laguerre, Ph.D.
University of Illinois
Caribbean Anthropology

Margaret B. Wilkerson, Ph.D.  (Emeritus)
University of California, Berkeley
Black Theater, Lorraine Hansberry

 

 

Associate Professors

Brandi Wilkins Catanese, Ph.D.
Stanford University
Drama and Humanities
African American Studies/Theatre, Dance & Performance Studies

Na'ilah Suad Nasir, Ph.D.
University of California, Los Angeles
Education

Stephen Small, Ph.D.
University of California, Berkeley
Sociology
Sociology

Ula Taylor, Ph.D.
University of California, Santa Barbara
American History

Assistant Professors

G. Ugo Nwokeji, Ph.D.
University of Toronto
Cultural History and Political Economy of Africa and
the Atlantic Slave Trade

Leigh Raiford, Ph.D.
Yale University
African American Studies and American Studies
African American Studies and American Studies

 

Darieck Scott, Ph.D.
Stanford University
Modern Thought & Literature
Modern Thought & Literature

Janelle T. Scott, Ph.D.
University of California, Los Angeles
Educational Policy

Adjunct Professor

Robert Allen, Ph.D.
University of California. San Francisco
Sociology
Graduate Advisor

Affiliate Faculty

Jocelyne Guilbault, Ph.D.
University of Michigan
Musicology (Ethnomusicology)

Abdul R. JanMohamed, Ph.D.
Brandeis University
African American Literature, Postcolonial and
World Literature, Critical Theory

Waldo E. Martin, Jr., Ph.D.
University of California, Berkeley
(History) Recent U.S., Black, Cultural, Intellectual

 

Sam A. Mchombo, Ph.D.
University of London
Linguistics

Trinh T. Minh-ha , Ph.D.
University of Illinois
Women's Studies and Rhetoric (Film Theory & Production;
Third World Film; Feminist Theory) Film and Rhetoric

Tyler E. Stovall, Ph.D.
University of Wisconsin-Madison
French History

Visiting/Non-Senate Faculty Fall 2009

Leah Albrecht, M.F.A., Creative Writing
Mills College
696 Barrows Hall
Office Hours: Thursdays 1:30–3:30 pm

mmcohen@berkeley.edu


Michael Cohen , Ph.D.
Yale University
698 Barrows Hall
Office Hours: TBD

mmcohen@berkeley.edu


Aya de Leon, M.F.A.
Director, June Jordan's Poetry for the People
694 Barrows Hall
Office Hours: On Leave thru November 2009

adeleon@berkeley.edu


Hardy Frye , Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
672 Barrows Hall
Office Hours: TuTh 1:00–2:00 pm & by appt.

frye@berkeley.edu


Cole Krawitz , M.F.A., Creative Writing
Lesley University, Cambridge, MA
696 Barrows Hall
Office Hours: Wednesdays 3:00–5:00 pm

ckrawitz@berkeley.edu


Aparajita Nanda, Ph.D.
Jadavpur University, Calcutta
678 Barrows Hall
Office Hours: Wednesdays 2:00–3:00 pm & by appt.

aparananda@berkeley.edu


James Njoroge, M.A., Coounseling Psychology
Durham University, United Kingdom
34 Dwinelle Hall
Office Hours: TBD

james_njoroge@berkeley.edu


Joseph Omwamba, B.A., Linguistics/Literature
University of Nairobi, Nairobi Kenya
Graduate Courses in Linguistics - Pragmatics and Semantics
Office Hours: TBD

omwamba@berkeley.edu


Heike Raphael-Hernandez , Ph.D.
University of Maryland University Collge Europe
698 Barrows Hall
Office Hours: Wednesdays 12:30–1:30 pm

hraphael@berkeley.edu


Galen Sibanda, Ph.D., Linguistics
University of California, Berkeley
Office Hours: TBD

galens@berkeley.edu


Alassane Paap Sow, M.A., English
Université de Dakar, Senegal
Office Hours: TBD

paalsaan@berkeley.edu