Faculty & Advisory Board

Associate Professor of History
Interdisciplinary Program Coordinator, Africana Studies
Interim Chair, Department of Religious Studies
Associate Dean, School of Arts & Sciences
Specialties:
- Political and Cultural History of Latin America
- Welfare and Philanthropy in Latin America
- Sociology of Medical Knowledge
(804) 287-6374

Assistant Professor of Sociology & Africana Studies
Specialties:
- Racial and Ethnic Minorities
- Family
- Inequality, Poverty and Mobility
- Race, Class, and Gender
- Sociology of Education
- Higher Education
804-289-8070


Professor of Law
Africana Studies Advisory Board Member
Specialties:
- Contracts & Commercial Law
- Race and the Law
- International and Comparative Law
- Constitutional Law
- Law and Political Economy
- Law and Political Theory
- Atrocities
- Personhood and Citizenship
(804) 287 6887

Professor of French
Africana Studies Advisory Board Member
Specialties:
- Francophone Literature
- Post-Colonial Criticism
(804) 289-8104

Assistant Professor of History and Africana Studies
Specialties:
- 20th Century United States
- Social Movements
- African American History
- Black Women's History
- Appalachian Studies
(807) 287-6306

Associate Professor of Political Science
Specialties:
- Political behavior
- Public opinion
- Voting and Participation
- Campaigns and elections
- Race and ethnicity
- Political methodology
(804) 484-1627

Assistant Professor of Art
Pronouns: they/them/he/she
Africana Studies Advisory Board Member
Specialties:
- Sculpture
- Experimental Film
- Contemporary Art
- Conceptual Art Theory
Emeriti Faculty

Professor of English, Emeritus
Africana Studies Advisory Board Member, Emeritus
Specialties:
- African American Literature and Culture
- 20th Century American Literature
- Black Vernacular Tradition
- Post-Blackness
(804) 289-8292