Faculty and Library/Instructional Staff with Interests in Africa and African Diasporas

Name	Contact	Department	Specialty
Hassan Abdel Salam Assistant Professor	asalamha@umn.edu	Institute for Global Studies; Sociology
Hakim Abderrezak Associate Professor	303C Folwell Hall 612-624-1074 abder002@umn.edu	French & Italian	Mahgrebi and Beur literature, cinema and music; representations of clandestine migrations in Arabic, French, and Spanish
Cawo Abdi Associate Professor	1146 Soc Sci Building 612-624-3714 cabdi@umn.edu	Sociology	Migration; gender, race, and class; family; Islam; development studies; human rights; globalization; Africa; Middle East
Akosua Addo Associate Professor	150 Ferguson Hall 612-624-8516 addox002@umn.edu	School of Music	Play; international teacher education; elementary music methods; international music education; world music; arts Integration; African music
Eunice M. Areba Assistant Professor	6-180 Weaver-Densford Hall 612-624-9605 areba002@umn.edu	School of Nursing
Abimbola (Abi) Asojo Professor Associate Dean for Research, Creative Scholarship and Engagement	aasojo@umn.edu	Interior Design (College of Design)	Cross-cultural design, Architectural lighting design, African architecture, Computing and design, Global design
Said Ahmed Teaching Specialist	823 Social Sciences 612-624-8571 ahme0039@umn.edu	African American & African Studies	Somali
Ronald R Aminzade Professor Emeritus	aminzade@umn.edu	Sociology	Historical and comparative; political sociology; sociology of development; nationalism; race relations; social movements; democratic theory
Ragui Assaad Professor	252 Humphrey School 612-625-4856 assaad@umn.edu	Humphrey School of Public Affairs	International economic development; labor market analysis; politics and economics of the Middle East and North Africa; urban planning; poverty in developing countries; quantitative methods; women's work in developing countries
Keletso E Atkins Associate Professor	852 Soc Sci Building 612-624-9847 atkin013@umn.edu	African American & African Studies	Africa, African diaspora, African labor history, South African history
Nicole E. Basta Assisstant Professor	300 West Bank Office Building 612-625-6616 nebasta@umn.edu	School of Public Health
Sophia Beal Associate Professor	206D Folwell Hall 612-625-2331 sfbeal@umn.edu	Spanish & Portuguese	Brazilian literature and cultural studies; Lusophone-African literature and cultural studies; urban studies; postcolonial studies
Joyce M. Bell Associate Professor	909 Soc Sci Building jmbell@umn.edu	Sociology
Peter Berthold Professor Emeritus	berthold@umn.edu	School of Dentistry
Martha Bigelow Professor	612-624-7087 mbigelow@umn.edu	Department of Curriculum and Instruction, CEHD
David Boulware Associate Professor	4-103 Microbiology Research Facility 612-624-1966 boulw001@umn.edu	Medical School
Mária Minich Brewer Associate Professor Emeritus	mbrewer@umn.edu	French & Italian	20th-century French literature, culture, & theater
Rose M Brewer Professor	810 Soc Sci Building 612-624-9305 brewe001@umn.edu	African American & African Studies	African American women's studies, Black family life, class gender, intersection of economy, race, racism, sociology, women's studies, critical theory, social transformation
David Chapman Professor Emeritus	chapm026@umn.edu	Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development (College of Education & Human Development)	Education planning in developing countries; government initiatives to influence practice at the school and classroom levels, with particular attention to developing countries; role of information (and information systems) in policy formulation and education planning; policy research; program evaluation; international issues in higher education
Victoria B Coifman Assistant Professor	825 Soc Sci Building 612-624-5709 coifm001@umn.edu	African American & African Studies	African history, comparative tropical history, development issues oral history, past and present urban and rural affairs, West and North African history, Islam
Susan Craddock Professor	425 Ford Hall 612-625-5535 craddock@umn.edu	Gender, Women, & Sexuality Studies; Global Studies
Scott Currie Associate Professor	132 Ferguson Hall 612-624-7512 scurrie@umn.edu	School of Music
Sarah Cusick Assistant Professor	365 Global Pediatrics 612-626-1980 scusick@umn.edu	Medical School
Joan Dejaeghere Professor	211D Burton Hall 612-626-8258 deja0003@umn.edu	Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development, CEHD
Kate Derickson Associate Professor	414 Soc Sci Building 612-625-6080 kdericks@umn.edu	Geography, Environment, and Society
Audrey Dorélien Assistant Professor	234 Humphrey School 612-626-7403 dorelien@umn.edu	Humphrey School of Public Affairs
Erin Durban-Albrecht Assistant Professor	edurbana@umn.edu	Global Studies; Anthropology
Ana Paula Ferreira Professor	206C Folwell Hall 612-626-6909 apferrei@umn.edu	Spanish & Portuguese	Portuguese, Brazilian, and Lusophone African literatures
Priscilla M. Flynn Associate Professor	612-625-1639 flynn125@umn.edu	School of Dentistry
Michael Gallope Associate Professor	210 Nicholson Hall 612-624-1538 mgallope@umn.edu	Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature	Music and sound; continental philosophy and critical theory; visual culture Black/African diaspora; theories of modernism
Katharine Gerbner Assistant Professor	1110 Heller Hall 612-624-3507 kgerbner@umn.edu	History
Nasra H. Giama Assistant Professor	390F University Square 507-258-8041 giama003@umn.edu	School of Nursing
Njeri R Githire Associate Professor	848 Soc Sci Building 612-625-1687 ngithire@umn.edu	African American & African Studies	African literary and cultural production, literatures of the African diaspora; literature of immigration and racial formation in the African diasporic spheres; women's writings and feminist theory; postcolonial theory and criticism; Francophone studies; food, (non)-eating, and related topics in literature
Kathryn Grace Associate Professor	558 Soc Sci Building 612-625-1397 klgrace@umn.edu	Geography, Environment, and Society
Malaika Grant Associate Librarian	grant044@umn.edu	Libraries	Subject specialist for: African American studies, African studies; Harlem Renaissance; African history; immigration
Jennifer M. Green Associate Clinical Professor	95J Mondale Hall 612-625-7247 jmgreen@umn.edu	Law School
Carol Hakim Associate Professor	1235 Heller Hall 612-624-9043 hakimc@umn.edu	History	Nationalism and intellectual history, state formation, state-society relations, and authoritarianism in the Arab world, political and economic development of the Arab world in the late 19th- and 20th-centuries
Claire Halpert Associate Professor	S315 Elliott Hall 612-626-5400 halpert@umn.edu	Linguistics	Syntax; prosody-syntax interface; linguistic field methods; case and agreement; Bantu linguistics
Rachel Hardeman Assistant Professor	D359 Mayo 612-626-2803 hard0222@umn.edu	School of Public Health
Douglas Hartmann Professor	835 Soc Sci Building 612-624-0835 hartm021@umn.edu	Sociology, African American & African Studies	American society, culture, ethnographic studies, field methods, mass media, Midnight Basketball outreach programs, popular culture, race, social change, social movements, social uses of recreational programming, sport culture, theory, poorly understood institution in the modern world
Mohamed Hassan Associate Professor	MMC 36 612-624-9684 hassa042@umn.edu	School of Medicine
Scott Homler Program Director	20 Nicholson Hall 612-626-4898 homle003@umn.edu	Translation and Interpreting, CCAPS
Cynthia Howard Associate Professor	366 Global Pediatrics 612-626-1980 drcindy@umn.edu	Medical School
Allen F Isaacman Regents Professor	1110 Heller Hall 612-624-0383 isaac001@umn.edu	History, African American & African Studies	Agrarian change, Central and Southern Africa, comparative history, peasants, rural protest, slavery and maroon communities, social history of Mozambique, the agency of ordinary people, the nature of African resistance to European colonial domination, oral history, East Africa and problems in southern Africa. racial problems in southern Africa
Zenzele Isoke Associate Professor	437 Ford Hall 612-626-8954 isoke001@umn.edu	Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies; Political Science; African American & African Studies	U.S. Black women's politics and activism; Black feminist thought; urban studies; urban ethnography; feminist geography; feminist theory and methods
Christopher Johnstone Assistant Professor	211B Burton Hall 612-625-2505 john4810@umn.edu	Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development, CEHD
William P. Jones Professor	1141 Heller Hall 612-625-7703 wpjones@umn.edu	History
Rhonda Jones-Webb Professor	300 West Bank Office Building 612-626-8866 jones010@umn.edu	School of Public Health
Jason T Kerwin Assistant Professor	jkerwin@umn.edu	Applied Economics (College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences)	Health and labor markets in sub-Saharan Africa (Malawi and Uganda)
Muhammed Khalifa Associate Professor	332 Burton Hall 612-625-5663 khalifam@umn.edu	Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development, CEHD
Alan Lifson Professor	300 West Bank Office Building 612-626-9697 lifso001@umn.edu	School of Public Health; Medical School
Malinda A Lindquist Associate Professor	1139 Heller Hall 612-626-4263 lindqust@umn.edu	History	African-American history, U.S. history, racial-gender theory, manhood in the Americas, feminist theory
Enid Logan Associate Professor	956 Soc Sci Building 612-624-3598 elogan@umn.edu	Sociology	Blackness in the Americas, Contemporary U.S. Race Relations; Race & the Body, Race & Electoral Politics, Blacks and Social Class, Afro-Latin America
Patricia Lorcin Professor	1020 Heller Hall 612-626-4269 plorcin@umn.edu	History	Modern France, Western Imperialism, Colonial/Postcolonial, Mediterranean
Michael Lower Associate Professor	1122 Heller Hall 612-624-2800 mlower@umn.edu	History	North Africa in the Middle Ages, Medieval Europe, the Crusades, Christian-Muslim Relations
Saje M Mathieu Associate Professor	1233 Heller Hall 612-625-7769 smathieu@umn.edu	History	African American history since Reconstruction, 20th century American history, Migration, social movements and political resistance
Marilena Mattos Senior Teaching Specialist	206A Folwell Hall 612-626-1371 mmattos@umn.edu	Spanish & Portuguese	Portuguese
Keith A Mayes Associate Professor	827 Soc Sci Building 612-624-5202 mayes@umn.edu	African American & African Studies	African-American History, 19th and 20th century, Kwanzaa and Black holidays, Civil Rights and Black Power Movement, Black History and Educational Policy, African American Public History
Kieran P McNulty Professor	383 Hubert H. Humphrey Center 612-625-0058 kmcnulty@umn.edu	Anthropology	Paleoanthropology, Human and primate evolution, Geometric morphometrics, Cranial evolution and ontogeny, East Africa
Stephen Meili Associate Professor; Director	190M Mondale Hall 612-626-3972 smeili@umn.edu	Law School; Immigration and Human Rights Clinic
Sowah Mensah Affiliated Faculty	mensa001@umn.edu	School of Music
Angaluki Muaka	856 Social Sciences 612-625-0185 muaka@umn.edu	African American & African Studies	Swahili
Melanie Nichol Assistant Professor	4-210 McGuire Translation Research Facility 612-301-9511 mrnicol@umn.edu	College of Pharmacy
August Nimtz Professor	1414 Soc Sci Building 612-624-4144 animtz@umn.edu	Political Science; African American & African Studies	African politics, comparative politics, ethnic politics, Marxism, political development, politics of the transition to socialism, political economy
Tade O Okediji Associate Professor	868 Social Sciences 612-624-8957 tokediji@umn.edu	African American & African Studies; Applied Economics (College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences)	Social and behavioral sciences, public policy and development, Africa and African diasporic studies
Kent D Olson Professor Associate Dean, Extension Center for Community Vitality	kdolson@umn.edu	Applied Economics (College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences)	Agribusiness management & finance; agricultural policy; crop production; farm management; human resource; management; sustainable agriculture. He has worked in Sweden, Poland, Uganda, and Italy.
Yuichiro Onishi Associate Professor	808 Soc Sci Building 612-624-9847 ohni0001@umn.edu	African American & African Studies	Black radicalism and internationalism, African American history, Transnational American studies, Critical race studies, Asian American studies
Sonali Pahwa Assistant Professor	Rarig C 612-301-3917 pahwa007@umn.edu	Theatre Arts & Dance
Leigh Payne Senior Research Fellow	lpayne@umn.edu	Institute for Global Studies; Political Science	Transitional justice and transitions from authoritarian rule in Latin America and South Africa
Chrystian Pereira Assistant Professor	7-175 Weaver-Densford Hall 612-343-7136 pereira@umn.edu	College of Pharmacy
Michael Pitt Associate Professor; Director	M653 East Building 612-625-6678 mbpitt@umn.edu	Medical School; Global Health Education
Paul Porter Professor	pporter@umn.edu	Agronomy and Plant Genetics (College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences)	Research and education; cropping systems, agroecology, rye cover crop, world food problems; evaluating starvation; agroecosystems; analysis field course; agroecosystems of the world, and environment; global food production, and the citizen; food and agriculture from Cairo to Cape Town at 10 mph; food and agriculture from Buenos Aires to Lima at 10 mph
Elliott Powell Assistant Professor	104 Scott Hall ehpowell@umn.edu	American Studies
Ioana Vartolomei Pribiag Assistant Professor	314 Folwell Hall 612-624-4308 ivartolo@umn.edu	French and Italian
Michael T. Rhodes Assistant Professor	D657 Mayo 612-624-1191 rhod0075@umn.edu	Medical School
Cheryl L. Robertson Professor	5-140 Weaver-Densford Hall 612-626-6450 rober007@umn.edu	School of Nursing
Melissa A. Saftner Clinical Associate Professor	6-165 Weaver-Densford Hall 218-726-7699 msaftner@umn.edu	School of Nursing
Joachin J. Savelsberg Professor; Arsham and Charlotte Ohanessian Chair	1144 Soc Sci Building 612-624-0273 savel001@umn.edu	Sociology; Law School
Abdi I Samatar Professor	414 Soc Sci Building 612-625-6080 samat001@umn.edu	Geography, Environment & Society	Development theory and the state, capitalist development, environment and development, political economy, agrarian change, Ethnic politics, East and Southern Africa, Third World, Islamic world, Botswana, Somalia, Ethiopia
Daniel J Schroeter Professor	1018 Heller Hall 612-624-2800 schro800@umn.edu	History	Jewish studies, Middle East, North Africa, World history
Rachel Schurman Professor	1074 Soc Sci Building 612-624-4300 schurman@umn.edu	Sociology	Agri-food Studies, Political Sociology, Social Movements, Global Political Economy, Development/Post-Development Studies
Karl D. Self Associate Professor	8-274 Moos Tower 612-625-2161 selfx001@umn.edu	School of Dentistry
Roozbeh Shirazi Assistant Professor	315 Burton Hall 612-624-2367 shir0035@umn.edu	Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development, CEHD
Tina Slusher Professor	365 Global Pediatrics 612-626-1980 tslusher@umn.edu	Medical School
Catherine Squires Professor	225 Ford Hall 612-624-5800 squir050@umn.edu	Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies; Communication Studies	Media, race and politics; Gender and media studies; Public sphere studies; Community-engaged research
William Stauffer Professor	612-624-9996 stauf005@umn.edu	Medical School
Charles J Sugnet Professor Emeritus	sugnet@umn.edu	English	Postcolonial literature, fiction and film of the African diaspora, creative nonfiction writing, the contemporary novel, multi-cultural instruction in the high schools
Shaden M Tageldin Associate Professor	218 Nicholson Hall 612-625-8445 tageldin@umn.edu	Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature	19th- and 20th-century literatures in English, Arabic, French; Trans-African and Trans-Asian studies; Empire and postcolonial studies; critical translation theory; politics of language, literary form, genre; histories and ideologies of comparative literature; aesthetics and biologics of race, nation, culture; literatures of migration and diaspora
Martha Tappen Associate Professor	395 Hubert H. Humphrey Center 612-625-3087 tappe004@umn.edu	Anthropology	Human evolution and adaptations, out of Africa I, paleoenvironments, Stone Age archaeology, zooarchaeology, taphonomy
Ben Trappey Assistant Professor	612-625-2307 trappey@umn.edu	Medical School
Christian Uwe Assistant Professor	146A Nicholson Hall 612-624-8099 cuwe@umn.edu	Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature
Katrien Vanpee Lecturer; Director of Arabic Language Instruction	220 Folwell Hall 612-624-0580 kvanpee@umn.edu	Asian Languages and Literatures
Frances Vavrus Professor	vavru003@umn.edu	Organizational Leadership, Policy and Development (College of Education & Human Development)	Comparative and international education; education and population change; gender and development; international development policy and practice; secondary and teacher education in Sub-Saharan Africa
Michael Westerhaus Assistant Professor; Co-Director	651-647-2100 west0591@umn.edu	Medical School; SocMed
Elizabeth Wieling Associate Professor; Director	293 McNaulty Hall 612-625-8106 lwieling@umn.edu	Family Social Science, CEHD; Couples & Family Therapy Program
Yolanda Y Williams Instructor	836 Social Sciences 612-624-0122 willi233@umn.edu	African American & African Studies	African American music cultures, jazz, blues, gospel, feminism
Terrion Williamson Assistant Professor	852 Social Sciences 612-626-7587 tlwillia@umn.edu	African American and African Studies
Josef Woldense Assistant Professor	878 Social Sciences 612-624-0122 jwoldens@umn.edu	African American and African Studies; Political Science
John S Wright Professor	883 Soc Sci Building 612-624-0845 wrigh003@umn.edu	African American & African Studies	American and Afro-American literature, intellectual history and popular culture, folklore and oral tradition, sociology of literature, feminist criticism, Harlem Renaissance, Black Arts Movement, Langston Hughes
Stuart Yeh Associate Professor	243 Burton Hall 612-624-0285 yehxx008@umn.edu	Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development, CEHD
Anteneh Zewde Assistant Professor	D694 Mayo 612-301-1409 zewde004@umn.edu	Medical School