Faculty
Dr. Berhane Araia Assistant Professor
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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
Dr. Allen Ballard Professor

Ph.D. from Harvard University
Office: SS 060K Phone: 442-5300 aballard@albany.edu
Dr. Nicholas Creary Lecturer
Ph.D. from Michigan State University.
Office: BA 118B Phone: 442-4830 ncreary@albany.edu
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.
Excellence in Professional Service Awardee
Office: BA 118C Phone:442-4725 ksarfoh@albany.edu
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
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).
Collins Fellow and Citizen Academic Laureate
Excellence in Teaching Awardee
Office: BA 118A Phone:442-4726 LSlade@albany.ed
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
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
Dr. Oscar R. Williams Associate Professor
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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

