Faculty Experts
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Africa
Allen B. Ballard
Professor
Department of History
Department of Africana Studies
African-American history, Civil War history, Soviet history
Eloise Briére
Associate Professor
Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Literatures, cultures, and language issues of the Francophone areas of the world, particularly West Africa, the Caribbean (Haiti, Martinique, Guadeloupe), and North America (Quebec, New England, Louisiana); cinema of Francophone West Africa, Caribbean and Quebec
Helen R. Desfosses
Associate Professor
Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy
Politics--local, state, national and international; public policy; campaigns and elections; legislative politics; Africa; Middle East; women and families
Pierre Joris
Professor
Department of English
Contemporary literature, especially poetry and poetics, of the U.S., U.K., Europe, North Africa, and beyond; theory of the avant-garde and diaspora studies; comparative literature and translation studies; North African culture
Kristi J. McClamroch
Assistant Professor
School of Public Health
Epidemiology; sexually transmitted infections (STI); HIV; sex work; Haiti; Madagascar; the Democratic Republic of Congo
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Leonard A. Slade Jr.
Professor
Department of Africana Studies
Adjunct Professor
Department of English
Black literature; black history; black poetry; and 19th century American literature, particularly author Herman Melville
Marcia E. Sutherland
Chair, Associate Professor
Department of Africana Studies
Associate Professor
Department of Psychology
Social and psychological development of black children, inclusiveness of education, transracial adoption, HIV/AIDS and people of African descent, enslavement and colonial experiences of people of African descent, black studies, mock jury trials, nonverbal behavior of people of African descent
Maurice Thornton
Lecturer
Department of Africana Studies
Affirmative action programs; African and African American history; the Civil Rights Movement in the U.S.; black history; the African and African American family
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Oscar Williams
Associate Professor
Department of Africana Studies
African American history and literature; American slavery; black nationalism; black conservatism; slavery in New York
