Robert L. Allen is Adjunct Professor of African American Studies and Ethnic Studies. Robert Allen received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, San Francisco. Before coming to UC Berkeley he taught at San Jose State University and Mills College. He is the author or co-editor of eight books and many articles and book reviews.
His books include Black Awakening in Capitalist America, Reluctant Reformers: The Impact of Racism on Social Movement in the U.S.; The Port Chicago Mutiny; and Brotherman: The Odyssey of Black Men in America. His most recent books are Strong...
Charles P. Henry, is Professor Emeritus of African American Studies at the University of California at Berkeley. In 1994, President Clinton appointed him to the National Council on the Humanities for a six-year term. Former president of the National Council for Black Studies, Henry is the author/editor of eight books and more than 80 articles and reviews on Black politics, public policy, and human rights. Before joining the University of California at Berkeley in 1981, Henry taught at Denison University and Howard University. Henry was chair of the board of directors of Amnesty...
Comparative Political Sociology, Postcolonial Studies, Political and Economic Development, Caribbean Political-Economy, Diaspora Studies, African Studies, Critical Methodology, Comparative Race and Ethnicity.
Research and Scholarship
Professor Hintzen receive his formal graduate training in comparative political sociology with a particular focus on political economy. He also holds an M.A. degree in international urbanization and public policy. His scholarship reflects his concern with the fraught conditions of...
Professor Wilkerson received her Ph.D. in Dramatic Art from UC Berkeley in 1972. In the 1970s and 1980s, she was Director of the UC Berkeley Center for the Study, Education, and Advancement of Women. As Chair of UC Berkeley’s Department of African American Studies from 1988-1994, she led the faculty to establish the Ph.D. Program in African Diaspora Studies. Professor Wilkerson chaired the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies from 1995-1998, where she led the development of the new interdisciplinary Ph.D. program in Performance Studies. Most recently, she was...
Professor, Director of the Berkeley Center for Globalization and Information Technology
Michel S. Laguerre, Ph.D., Social Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is Professor and Director of the Berkeley Center for Globalization and Information Technology at the University of California at Berkeley.
He was a visiting scholar in the anthropology department at Harvard University in 1991-2 and in the program in Science, Technology and Society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2001-2. In 1994-5, he held at UC Berkeley the Barbara Weinstock Lectureship on the Morals of Trade.
Sam Mchombo received his Ph.D. in Linguistics in 1978 from the University of London (SOAS). He pioneered studies of Chichewa and Linguistics in the University of Malawi (Chancellor College) where he was the first Chair of the (current) Department of African Languages & Linguistics. In 1984 he held appointments as visiting Fulbright scholar in Linguistics at MIT (spring) and at Stanford University (summer). He was appointed post-doctoral fellow in Linguistics at MIT during the fall semester of 1984). From January 1985 he joined the faculty of the Linguistics Program at San José State...
Professors Small’s new book – In the Shadows of the Big House. Twenty-First-Century Antebellum Slave Cabins and Heritage Tourism in Louisiana was published June 2023.
Stephen Small has taught in the Department of African American Studies since 1995. On July 1st, 2020, he was appointed Director of...
Professors Small’s new book – In the Shadows of the Big House. Twenty-First-Century Antebellum Slave Cabins and Heritage Tourism in Louisiana was published June 2023.