Graduate Bulletin

Faculty of the Department of Africana Studies

Professors

Allen Ballard, Ph.D., Harvard University
Afro-American History

Iris Berger, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin
Colonial African History, African Women in History

Leonard A. Slade, Jr., Ph.D., University of Illinois
Black Literature, Black Poetry, Creative Writing, 19th Century American Literature, English Composition and Rhetoric

Jogindar Uppal, Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Urban Economics, African Economic Development

Associate Professors

Helen R. Desfosses, Ph.D., Boston University
African Politics, African/Soviet Relations

George A. Levesque, Ph.D., University at Binghamton, SUNY
Afro-American History, Urban History, U.S. History

Kwadwo A. Sarfoh, Ph.D., University of Cincinnati
African Resource Development (Human and Energy Resources), Developmental Economics, West African History/Politics

Marcia Sutherland, Ph.D., Howard University
Psychology of the Black Experience

Assistant Professor

Mark Anthony Neal, Ph.D., University at Buffalo, SUNY
African-American Cultural Studies/Popular Culture and Music