Faculty
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Nigel Westmaas
Chair, Professor of Africana Studies
Expertisehistory, sociology, and Africana studies -
Donald Carter
Professor of Africana Studies
Expertiseculture theory; racial formation; visual culture; diaspora; invisibility and transnational cultural politics -
Mark Cryer
Chair and Professor of Theatre
Expertiseacting; Shakespeare; African-American theatre; Sanford Meisner; Uta Hagen; August Wilson -
A. Todd Franklin
Eugene M. Tobin Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Africana Studies
Expertiseexistentialism, African-American philosophy, and Nietzsche -
Heather Merrill
Professor of Africana Studies, Director of Italian Studies
Expertisecritical human geography; race, place, and belonging in Italy, Black Europe, and the U.S.; gender and intersectionality; African Diasporic politics and identity in Italy; Blackness and anti-blackness -
Vincent Odamtten
William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Literature and Africana Studies
ContactPhone:ExpertiseAfrican literature with a focus of Ghanaian and women's literature; 20th-century Caribbean literature; African-American literature; science fiction; literary criticism; use of digital technology in the study of literature -
Shelley Haley
Edward North Chair of Classics and Professor of Africana Studies Emerita (retired)
Expertiseancient Africa including ancient Egypt, Cleopatra, Latin pedagogy, Classica Africana, Roman social history focusing on constructs of race, gender and sexuality; black feminist thought; and critical race feminism and African-American women's intellectual history
Contact
Department Name
Africana Studies Program
Contact Name
Nigel Westmaas, Chair
Office Location
198 College Hill Road
Clinton, NY 13323
Clinton, NY 13323
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