Core Faculty

Deborah E. McDowell
Director & Alice Griffin Professor of English
African-American Literature; Women's Literature; American Literature
Theories of Race and Emotion

Cynthia Hoehler-Fatton
Associate Director & Associate Professor of  Religious Studies
African independent churches and religious movement; Luo religion; Gender and religion in Africa; the history of Christianity and Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa

Roquinaldo Ferreira
Assistant Professor (AAS/History)
Early Africa; Colonial Brazil; Atlantic World

Claudrena Harold
Assistant Professor (AAS/History)
20th century U.S.; African-American History

Marlon B. Ross
Professor (AAS/English Literature and Language)
British Romanticism; 20th Century African American Literature; Gender & Queer Theory