Faculty & Advisory Board

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Dr. Manuella Meyer
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
Contact:
(804) 287-6374
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Dr. Bertram Ashe
Professor of English
Africana Studies Advisory Board Member
Specialties:
  • African American Literature and Culture
  • 20th Century American Literature
  • Black Vernacular Tradition
  • Post-Blackness
Contact:
(804) 289-8292
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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
Contact:
(804) 662-3114
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Alicia Díaz
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
Contact:
(804) 287-6350
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Deborwah Faulk
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
Contact:
804-289-8070
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Catherine Hash
Academic Administrative Coordinator
Contact:
(804) 287-6041
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Dr. Kasongo Mulenda Kapanga
Professor of French
Chair, Department of Languages, Literatures, & Cultures
Africana Studies Advisory Board Member
Specialties:
  • Francophone Literature
  • Post-Colonial Criticism
Contact:
(804) 289-8104
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Dr. Jillean McCommons
Assistant Professor of History and Africana Studies
Specialties:
  • 20th Century United States
  • Social Movements
  • African American History
  • Black Women's History
  • Appalachian Studies
Contact:
(807) 287-6306
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Dr. Ernest B. McGowen III
Associate Professor of Political Science
Specialties:
  • Political behavior
  • Public opinion
  • Voting and Participation
  • Campaigns and elections
  • Race and ethnicity
  • Political methodology
Contact:
(804) 484-1627
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Dr. Matthew Oware
Irving May Professor of Human Relations, Professor of Sociology
Africana Studies Advisory Board Member
Director, University of Richmond Race and Racism Project
Specialties:
  • Race
  • Masculinity
  • African American culture
  • Hip Hop/Rap
  • Gender
  • Content Analysis
  • Racial Identity
  • Black/Africana Studies
Contact:
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Dr. L. Carol Summers
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
Contact:
(804) 289-8976

Student Advisory Board Members

Student Representative, American Studies

Student Representative, Interdisciplinary Major