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Africana
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Allen
Ballard
Ph.D. from Harvard University
Specialty area: African-American History |
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Berhane
Araia
Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina
Specialty area: Political Sociology
Research areas: Social Theory, Culture and Health,
Education and Africana Studies |
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Iris Berger
Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin
Specialty areas: Colonial African History and African
Women in History
Research areas: Women, gender and social policy
in twentieth-century South Africa
Helen Desfosses
Ph.D. from Boston University
Specialty areas: African Politics and Public Administration
Research areas: Legislative Development, Comparative
Politics, Africa in World Politics, and Women in
Africa's Politics
George
Levesque
Ph.D. from SUNY at Binghamton
Specialty areas: African-American, Urban and U.S.
Histories
Reasearch areas: History of Non Slave Blacks in
the North, circa: 1750-1865; Quasi Free Blacks in
the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and notably on
its capital city of Boston; History of Slavery in
America with a specialization on the Historiography
of Slavery, circa 1830-2004; Law and African Americans
(Slave Law, 1660-1877); (Law and non-slave Blacks,
1619-1865); Capital Punishment, Affirmative Action,
and Race and Education in the American Past |
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Kwadwo
A. Sarfoh
Ph.D. from the University of Cincinnati
Specialty areas: African Resource Development, Developmental
Economics, and West African History and Politics
Research areas: The Process of Development in Africa
with emphasis on Population Mobility and Migration,
African Immigrants in the United States, and Water
Resources in Africa. He is currently working on a
manuscript on "The Future of Water in Africa." |
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Leonard
A. Slade Jr.
Ph.D. from the University of Illinois
Specialty areas: Black Literature, Poetry, Creative
Writing, 19th Century American Literature, English
Composition and Rhetoric
Research areas: Black American Poetry, The Black Essay,
George Moses Horton (First Black Poet of the South),
and l9th Century American Lierature (Herman Melville) |
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Marcia
Sutherland
Ph.D. from Howard University
Specialty area: African (Black) Psychology, The Social
and Psychological Development of Black Children, and
Research Methods
Research areas: Caribbean Immigrants in the United
Kingdom, African (Black) Psychology from a Global
Perspective, and the HIV/AIDS Pandemic in Africa and
in the Diaspora |
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Jogindar
Uppal
Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota
Specialty areas: Urban Economics and African Economic
Development |
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Oscar
R. Williams
Ph.D. from the Ohio State University
Specialty areas: African American History, African
American Literature, American Slavery, and Black Nationalism
Research areas: 20th Century African American History,
l9th Century African American History (with emphasis
on Antebellum Slavery), and African American Intellectual
History. Currently Dr. Williams is working on a biography
of African American journalist and conservative George
S. Schuyler |
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| Departmental Secretary: |
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| Marcy
Casavant
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Please send questions or comments to: africana@albany.edu
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