Faculty

Dr. Berhane Araia Assistant Professor

Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina

Specialty area: Political Sociology, Social Theory

Research areas: Nationalism and Ethnicity in Africa, Public opinion, Sexual behavior, and Horn of Africa

Office: BA 118D  Phone: 442-4728  baraia@albany.edu

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Dr. Allen Ballard Professor

Ph.D. from Harvard University

Specialty area: African-American History

Office: SS 060K Phone: 442-5300 aballard@albany.edu

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Dr. Nicholas Creary Lecturer

 

 

 

 

Ph.D. from Michigan State University.

Specialty areas: African history, African liberation movements, Religion in Africa.

Research areas: African literary and cultural nationalist movements, African interactions with the so-called “West”.

Office: BA 118B   Phone: 442-4830 ncreary@albany.edu

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 Dr. Kwadwo A. Sarfoh Associate Professor

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.

Office: BA 118C    Phone:442-4725 ksarfoh@albany.edu

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Dr. Ibram Rogers Assistant Professor

Ph.D. from Temple University

Specialty Area: African American History and Thought

Research Areas: Black Campus Movement, Black Student Activism, Racial History of Higher Education, History of Africana Studies, Civil Rights and Black Power Studies, American Intellectual History.

Office: BA118E    Phone:442-4729  irogers@albany.edu

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 Dr. Leonard A. Slade, Jr. Professor

Ph.D. from the University of Illinois

Specialty areas: Black Literature, Poetry, Creative Writing, 19th Century American Literature (Herman Melville), English Composition and Rhetoric, The Black Essay, English Education, Textual Editing, American Literary Bibliography

Research areas: Black American Poetry, George Moses Horton (First Black Poet of the South).

Office: BA 118A    Phone:442-4726 LSlade@albany.ed

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 Dr. Marcia Sutherland Associate Professor

Ph.D. from Howard University

Specialty areas: 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.

Office: BA 115    Phone:442-4730 ms781@albany.edu

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Dr. Jogindar Uppal O’Leary Professor

Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota

Specialty areas: Urban Economics and African Economic Development.

Office: BA 125E     jsu11@albany.edu

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Dr. Oscar R. Williams Associate Professor

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, 19th Century African American History (with emphasis on Antebellum Slavery), and African American Intellectual History.

Office: BA 115B   Phone:442-4593 orw@albany.edu

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