Faculty

  • Michael and Denise Kellen '68 Associate Professor of Africana Studies

    B.A., Howard University ; M.A., Ph.D., Columbia University

    Carter Jackson's research focuses on slavery and the abolitionists, violence as a political discourse, historical film, and black women’s history. 

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  • Professor of Africana Studies

    B.A., M.A., Fordham University; Ph.D., Cornell University

    Expert on Caribbean literature and Caribbean intellectual history.

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  • Assistant Professor of Africana Studies

    B.A., Linfield College; M.A., Ph.D., Georgia State University

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  • Lecturer in Africana Studies

    B.A., M.A., Ph.D., The Ohio State University

    African Diasporic cosmologies, sacred ontologies; Afro-Caribbean cultural expressions and identity; slavery and the Afro-Atlantic world; sacred sexualities and gender.

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  • Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Africana Studies

    B.A., University of South Florida; M.A., College of Saint Rose; Ph.D., University of Westminster

    Born and bred New Yorker, I am an interdisciplinary scholar that examines how low-income nations govern disease outbreaks.

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  • Katherine Stone Kaufmann '67 Executive Director of the Wellesley Centers for Women and Professor of Africana Studies

    B.A., Spelman College; M.S., Pennsylvania State University; Ph.D., Temple University

    Executive Director of the Wellesley Centers for Women; expert on the womanist worldview and activist methodology.

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