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University of Massachusetts Amherst

University of Massachusetts Amherst

W.E.B. Du Bois Department

Faculty - click on name to go to individual web page

Amilcar Shabazz, Chair    Ernest Allen, Jr. John H. Bracey, Jr.
A Yemisi Jimoh K. Morrison   Britt Rusert
Manisha Sinha  James Smethurst Steven C. Tracy
William Strickland 

 

Visiting Instructor

Richard Hall, Junior-Year Writing in Afro-American Studies

 

Graduate Teaching Assistants & Teaching Associates

Emahunn Campbell

Savannah Carroll

Alex Carter

Julia Charles

Crystal Donkor

Donald Geesling

J. Anthony Guillory

Kelli Morgan

Johanna Ortner

Cynara Robinson

Agyei Tyehimba

Fangfang Zhu

 

Affiliated UMass Africana Studies Faculty

Whitney Battle-Baptiste, Anthropology

Joye Bowman, History

Marcus Gardley, Theater

Dayo Gore, Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies

Lisa Green, Linguistics

Jose Hernandez, History

John Higginson, History

Emily Lordi, English

Agustin Lao-Montes, Sociology

Laura Lovett, History

Rachel Martin, History

Rachel Mordecai, English

Robert Paynter, Anthropology

TreaAndrea Russworm, English

Joyce Vincent, Native American Studies

Mwangi wa Gĩthĩnji, Economics

For other faculty with related Afro-Atlantic/Black Diaspora emphases in the Five College community, see the African Studies Council faculty website:

http://www.fivecolleges.edu/sites/african/facultymain/

 

Faculty Emeriti

Josepheus "Femi" Richards

Archie Shepp

Esther M.A. Terry

Ekwueme Michael Thelwell

Robert Paul Wolff

 

Staff

Tricia Loveland, Head Secretary