Faculty & Advisory Board
Associate Professor of History
Interdisciplinary Program Coordinator, Africana 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
Dr. Megan Driscoll
She/Her
Assistant Professor of Art History
Africana Studies Advisory Board Member
Specialties:
- Modern and Contemporary Art History
- Discourses on Blackness in Contemporary Art
- Postwar Photographic and Time Based Media
- Art and the Internet
(804) 662-3114
Associate Professor of Dance
Africana Studies Advisory Board Member
American Studies Advisory Board Member
Inclusive Community Council (ICC) Member
Specialties:
- Contemporary Dance
- Improvisation
- Choreography
- Dance and Social Justice
(804) 287-6350
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 French
Chair, Department of Languages, Literatures, & Cultures
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
Irving May Professor of Human Relations, Professor of Sociology
Africana Studies Advisory Board Member
Director, University of Richmond Race and Racism Project
American Studies Advisory Board Member
Specialties:
- Race
- Masculinity
- African American culture
- Hip Hop/Rap
- Gender
- Content Analysis
- Racial Identity
- Black/Africana Studies
Samuel Chiles Mitchell-Jacob Billikopf Professor of History and Global Studies
Africana Studies Advisory Board Member
Global Studies Concentration Advisor: Politics and Governance, Culture and Communications
Specialties:
- Colonial Africa
- History of Education
- Nationalism and Decolonization
(804) 289-8976
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