Africana Studies

Faculty and Staff

• Faculty and Staff
• Faculty Publications
• Affiliated Departments

Judith S. Casselberry  (on leave of absence for the 2012-13 academic year)

Assistant Professor of Africana Studies
African-American culture and the construction and performance of raced, gendered, and religious identities.

Tess E. Chakkalakal 

Associate Professor of Africana Studies and English
Director of the Africana Studies Program

Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century American Literature, African American Literature, The Novel, Literary History, Law and Literature.

Laura Premack

Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Africana Studies and Latin American Studies

Brian Purnell

Assistant Professor of Africana Studies

Wendy Thompson-Taiwo

Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Africana Studies

Olufemi O. Vaughan  (on leave of absence for the 2012-13 academic year)

Geoffrey Canada Professor of Africana Studies and History

Affiliated Faculty and Staff

Ericka Albaugh  

Assistant Professor of Government and Legal Studies

Peter Coviello

Professor of English
American Literature
 

Guy Mark Foster

Assistant Professor of English
20th century African American literature, lesbian and gay studies, interracial literature
 

David Gordon

Associate Professor of History

David Hecht (on leave of absence for the 2012-13 academic year)

Assistant Professor of History;  Director of the First Year Seminar Program

Aaron Kitch (on leave of absence for the 2012-13 academic year)

Associate Professor of English

Scott MacEachern (on leave of absence for the 2012-13 academic year)

Professor of Anthropology

Dhiraj Murthy  

Assistant Professor of Sociology

Elizabeth Muther 

Associate Professor of English

H. Roy Partridge

Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology

Patrick Rael 

Associate Professor of History

Jennifer R. Scanlon (on leave of absence for the 2012-13 academic year)

Professor of Gender and Women's Studies

Hanétha Vété-Congolo  

Associate Professor of Romance Languages

Anthony E. Walton

Writer-in-Residence

Program Coordinator: Glynis Wears Siegel
Phone: (207) 725-3272
Fax: (207) 725-3023