Faculty Affiliates

Art

Kevin Everson
Associate Professor
McIntire Department of Art
Brooks Hall 102A
434-243-5581

Carmenita Higginbotham
Assistant Professor
American art survey from Reconstruction to World War II; American Modernisms; African American Art; and Film Noir.
McIntire Department of Art
307 Fayerweather Hall
434- 924-6131

Anthropology

Yarimar Bonilla
Assistant Professor
Caribbean Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Social Movements, Political
Anthropology, Collective Memory and the Production of History.
Department of Anthropology
Brooks Hall
434-924-7044

Ellen ContinI-Morava
Professor
Meanings and discourse functions of grammatical forms; pragmatics; linguistic theory and method; African linguistics (especially Bantu).
Department of Anthropology
Brooks Hall 204
434-924-6825

Adria LaViolette
Associate Professor
Eastern African archaeology; particularly that of later medium-range and large-scale societies; and the interface between archaeology, ethnology, and history.
Department of Anthropology
Brooks Hall B010
434-982-2631

Wende Marshall
Assistant Professor
Medical anthropology; political anthropology; community studies; and race theory, especially constructions of race in Oceania and the U.S.
Department of Anthropology
Brooks Hall, 203
434-924-4095

George Mentore
Associate Professor
Amerindian and Caribbean studies; the anthropology of knowledge; the anthropology of power; and the anthropology of emotion.
Department of Anthropology
Brooks Hall, 310B
434-924-7038

Architecture

Craig Barton
Associate Professor and Chair
Department of Architecture
Campbell Hall
434-924-6467

Center for Digital History

Scot French
Director Digital History
Associate Professor
U.S. History (African-American & Southern)
Alderman Library
Taylor Room, 3rd Floor
434-924-3804

Drama

Theresa Davis
Associate Professor
Cross Cultural Performance
Department of Drama
Drama Building Room 213
434-982-5577

English

Kenrick Ian Grandison
University Professor
American Studies
Department of English
Minor Hall, 101 A
434-924-1392

Eric Lott
Professor
Modern Literature; American Studies and Cultural Studies
Department of English
Bryan Hall 214
434-924-6640

Deborah E. McDowell
Director, Carter G. Woodson Institute
Alice Griffin Professor of English
African-American Literature; Women's Literature and American Literature
Carter G. Woodson Institute
Minor Hall 101
434-924-3109

Marlon Ross
Professor
British Romanticism; 20th Century African American Literature; Gender & Queer Theory
Department of English
Bryan Hall, 304C
434-924-3354

Lisa Woolfork
Associate Professor
American, African American Literature
Department of English
Bryan Hall
434-243-8932

French

Kandioura Drame
Associate Professor
Francophone African literature (French colonial literature, early Francophone, Negritude,  and Post-Negritude writers; Essays, Fiction, and Poetry); African cinema; Oral traditions; and Contemporary African music and arts.
Department of French
306 Cabell Hall
434- 924-4634

History

Julian Bond
Professor
Civil Rights; African-American History; U.S. History; and  Southern history
Department of History
Randall Hall 108
434-924-6382

Reginald Butler
Associate Professor
African-American History; U.S. History
Department of History
434-924-4045

Roquinaldo Ferreira
Assistant Professor
Early Africa; Colonial Brazil; Atlantic World
Corcoran Department of History
Randall Hall
434-924-7147

Grace Hale
Associate Professor
20th Century U. S History; Civil Rights; Labor history
Corcoran Department of History
Levering 108
434-924-6413

Claudrena Harold
Assistant Professor
20th century U.S., African-American history
Corcoran Department of History
434-924-7891

John E. Mason
Associate Professor
African History; African-American Cultural and Intellectual History ; Modern Africa and Southern Africa
Corcoran Department of History
Randall Hall 204
434-924-6947

Joseph Miller
T Cary Johnson Jr Professor of History
Early Africa; Slavery and the Slave Trade; World History
Department of History
Levering Hall 210
434-924-6395

Brian Owensby
Associate Professor
Latin America
Corcoran Department of History
Randall Hall 122
434-924-6388

Music

Scott De Veaux
Associate Professor
Composition and sound art; music technology; interactive computer music performance; multimedia; ecoacoustics; the history of Jazz
McIntire Department of Music
Old Cabell Hall, 112
434-924-6500

Michelle Kisliuk
Associate Professor
African music: BaAka as well urban music and dance in the Central African Republic; Ethnomusicology and performance theory; cultural studies and experiential field research.
McIntire Department of Music
Old Cabell Hall 204
434-982-2946

Office of African American Affairs

Maurice Apprey
Professor of Psychiatry and Neuro Biological Sciences
Office of African-American Affairs
#4 Dawson's Row
(Luther P. Jackson House)
434-924-7923

Office of Executive Vice President and Provost

Gertrude Fraser
Associate Professor
Medical anthropology; reproduction, the body and sexuality; race, gender and science; African American ethnography; applied methodology, historical anthropology
Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost
Booker House
434-924-3928

Politics

K. Lawrie Balfour
Associate Professor
Issues of race, power, and gender
Woodrow Wilson Dept. of Politics
Cabell Hall 223
434-924-4631

Robert Fatton
Julia Allen Cooper Professor of Politics
Comparative Government (African Studies; Third World).
Woodrow Wilson Dept. of Politics
Cabell Hall 233
434-924-3663

Melvin Rogers
Assistant Professor
Classical and contemporary pragmatism; American and African-American political thought; democratic and republican theory.
Woodrow Wilson Dept. of Politics
Cabell Hall 232
434-924-3614

Denise Walsh
Assistant Professor of Politics and Studies in Women and Gender
Critical theory; democratic theory; feminist theory
Woodrow Wilson Dept. of Politics
Cabell Hall 232
434-982-2131

Vesla Weaver
Assistant Professor
Social policy, electoral politics, political psychology, American political development and the politics of inequality
Woodrow Wilson Department of Politics
PO Box 400787
434-924-3192

Psychology

Melvin Wilson
Professor
Clinical, Community, and Developmental Psychology
Department of Psychology
Gilmer Hall, 306
434-924-0673

Religious Studies

Valerie Cooper
Assistant Professor
African American Religious History; Evangelicalism; Pentecostalism and  Religion and Popular Culture; African American Women's Religious Narratives; African American Biblical Hermeneutics and Appropriation; New Testament and Christian Origins
Department of Religious Studies
PO Box 400126
434-924-6648

Cynthia Hoehler-Fatton
Associate Director, Carter G. Woodson Institute
Associate Professor of  Religious Studies
African independent churches and religious movements; Luo religion; gender and religion in Africa; the history of Christianity and Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa
Carter G. Woodson Institute
Minor Hall 102
434-924-3109

Benjamin Ray
Professor
African Art;  African Religions; History of Religious Methodology; Salem Witch Trials
Department of Religious Studies
PO Box 400126
434-924-6720

Jalane Schmidt
Assistant Professor
Latin American & Caribbean Religions
Department of Religious Studies
PO Box 400126
434-924-1061

Spanish

David Haberly
Professor
Brazilian literature and culture; nineteenth-century literatures of Latin America; the United States, and Spain
Department for Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese
Wilson Hall 111
434-924-4650

Sociology

Milton Vickerman
Associate Professor
Race, immigration, and processes of minority adaptation to American society
Department of Sociology
Cabell Hall 546
434-924-6531