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

Name

Contact Department Specialty
Hassan Abdel Salam
Assistant Professor
[email protected] Institute for Global Studies; Sociology  
Hakim Abderrezak 
Associate Professor
303C Folwell Hall
612-624-1074  
[email protected]
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
[email protected]
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
[email protected]
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
[email protected]
School of Nursing  
Abimbola (Abi) Asojo
Professor
Associate Dean for Research, Creative Scholarship and Engagement
[email protected] 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
[email protected]
African American & African Studies  Somali 
Ronald R Aminzade
Professor Emeritus
[email protected] 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
[email protected] 
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
[email protected]
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
[email protected]
School of Public Health  
Sophia Beal
Associate Professor
206D Folwell Hall
612-625-2331
[email protected]
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
[email protected]
Sociology  
Peter Berthold
Professor Emeritus
[email protected] School of Dentistry  
Martha Bigelow
Professor
612-624-7087
[email protected]
Department of Curriculum and Instruction, CEHD  
David Boulware
Associate Professor
4-103 Microbiology Research Facility
612-624-1966
[email protected]
Medical School  
Mária Minich Brewer
Associate Professor Emeritus

[email protected] 
French & Italian  20th-century French literature, culture, & theater 
Rose M Brewer
Professor 
810 Soc Sci Building
612-624-9305
[email protected]
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

[email protected]
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
[email protected]
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
[email protected]
Gender, Women, & Sexuality Studies; Global Studies  
Scott Currie
Associate Professor
132 Ferguson Hall
612-624-7512
[email protected]
School of Music  
Sarah Cusick
Assistant Professor
365 Global Pediatrics
612-626-1980
[email protected]
Medical School  
Joan Dejaeghere
Professor
211D Burton Hall
612-626-8258
[email protected]
Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development, CEHD  
Kate Derickson
Associate Professor
414 Soc Sci Building
612-625-6080
[email protected]
Geography, Environment, and Society  
Audrey Dorélien
Assistant Professor
234 Humphrey School
612-626-7403
[email protected]
Humphrey School of Public Affairs  
Erin Durban-Albrecht
Assistant Professor
[email protected] Global Studies; Anthropology  
Ana Paula Ferreira 
Professor
206C Folwell Hall
612-626-6909
[email protected]
Spanish & Portuguese Portuguese, Brazilian, and Lusophone African literatures
Priscilla M. Flynn 
Associate Professor
612-625-1639
[email protected]
School of Dentistry  
Michael Gallope
Associate Professor 
210 Nicholson Hall
612-624-1538
[email protected]
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
[email protected]
History  
Nasra H. Giama
Assistant Professor 
390F University Square
507-258-8041
[email protected]
School of Nursing  
Njeri R Githire
Associate Professor
848 Soc Sci Building
612-625-1687
[email protected]
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
[email protected]
Geography, Environment, and Society  
Malaika Grant
Associate Librarian
[email protected] 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
[email protected]
Law School  
Carol Hakim 
Associate Professor
1235 Heller Hall
612-624-9043
[email protected]
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
[email protected]
Linguistics  Syntax; prosody-syntax interface; linguistic field methods; case and agreement; Bantu linguistics
Rachel Hardeman
Assistant Professor
D359 Mayo
612-626-2803
[email protected]
School of Public Health  
Douglas Hartmann
Professor 
835 Soc Sci Building
612-624-0835
[email protected]
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
[email protected]
School of Medicine  
Scott Homler
Program Director 
20 Nicholson Hall
612-626-4898
[email protected]
Translation and Interpreting, CCAPS  
Cynthia Howard
Associate Professor 
366 Global Pediatrics
612-626-1980
[email protected]
Medical School  
Allen F Isaacman
Regents Professor 
1110 Heller Hall
612-624-0383
[email protected]
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
[email protected]
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
[email protected]
Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development, CEHD  
William P. Jones
Professor 
1141 Heller Hall
612-625-7703
[email protected]
History  
Rhonda Jones-Webb
Professor
300 West Bank Office Building
612-626-8866
[email protected]
School of Public Health  
Jason T Kerwin
Assistant Professor
[email protected] 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
[email protected]
Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development, CEHD  
Alan Lifson
Professor 
300 West Bank Office Building
612-626-9697
[email protected]
School of Public Health; Medical School  
Malinda A Lindquist 
Associate Professor 
1139 Heller Hall
612-626-4263
[email protected]
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
[email protected]
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
[email protected]
History  Modern France, Western Imperialism, Colonial/Postcolonial, Mediterranean
Michael Lower
Associate Professor
1122 Heller Hall
612-624-2800
[email protected]
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
[email protected]
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
[email protected]
Spanish & Portuguese  Portuguese
Keith A Mayes
Associate Professor 
827 Soc Sci Building 
612-624-5202
[email protected]
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
[email protected]
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
[email protected]
Law School; Immigration and Human Rights Clinic  
Sowah Mensah
Affiliated Faculty
[email protected] School of Music  
Angaluki Muaka 856 Social Sciences
612-625-0185
[email protected]
African American & African Studies  Swahili
Melanie Nichol
Assistant Professor
4-210 McGuire Translation Research Facility
612-301-9511
[email protected]
College of Pharmacy  
August Nimtz
Professor
1414 Soc Sci Building 
612-624-4144
[email protected]
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
[email protected]
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
[email protected] 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
[email protected]
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
[email protected]
Theatre Arts & Dance  
Leigh Payne
Senior Research Fellow
[email protected] 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
[email protected]
College of Pharmacy  
Michael Pitt
Associate Professor; Director
M653 East Building
612-625-6678
[email protected]
Medical School; Global Health Education  
Paul Porter
Professor
[email protected] 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
[email protected]
American Studies  
Ioana Vartolomei Pribiag
Assistant Professor
314 Folwell Hall
612-624-4308
[email protected]
French and Italian  
Michael T. Rhodes
Assistant Professor 
D657 Mayo
612-624-1191
[email protected]
Medical School  
Cheryl L. Robertson
Professor 
5-140 Weaver-Densford Hall
612-626-6450
[email protected]
School of Nursing  
Melissa A. Saftner
Clinical Associate Professor 
6-165 Weaver-Densford Hall
218-726-7699
[email protected]
School of Nursing  
Joachin J. Savelsberg
Professor; Arsham and Charlotte Ohanessian Chair 
1144 Soc Sci Building
612-624-0273
[email protected]
Sociology; Law School  
Abdi I Samatar
Professor 
414 Soc Sci Building
612-625-6080
[email protected]
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
[email protected]
History Jewish studies, Middle East, North Africa, World history
Rachel Schurman 
Professor
1074 Soc Sci Building
612-624-4300
[email protected]
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
[email protected]
School of Dentistry  
Roozbeh Shirazi
Assistant Professor
315 Burton Hall
612-624-2367
[email protected]
Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development, CEHD  
Tina Slusher
Professor
365 Global Pediatrics 
612-626-1980
[email protected]
Medical School  
Catherine Squires
Professor 
225 Ford Hall
612-624-5800
[email protected]
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
[email protected]
Medical School  
Charles J Sugnet
Professor Emeritus
[email protected] 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
[email protected]
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
[email protected]
Anthropology Human evolution and adaptations, out of Africa I, paleoenvironments, Stone Age archaeology, zooarchaeology, taphonomy
Ben Trappey
Assistant Professor
612-625-2307
[email protected]
Medical School  
Christian Uwe
Assistant Professor
146A Nicholson Hall
612-624-8099
[email protected]
Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature  
Katrien Vanpee
Lecturer; Director of Arabic Language Instruction
220 Folwell Hall
612-624-0580
[email protected]
Asian Languages and Literatures  
Frances Vavrus 
Professor
[email protected] 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
[email protected]
Medical School; SocMed  
Elizabeth Wieling
Associate Professor; Director
293 McNaulty Hall
612-625-8106
[email protected]
Family Social Science, CEHD; Couples & Family Therapy Program  
Yolanda Y Williams
Instructor
836 Social Sciences
612-624-0122
[email protected]
African American & African Studies African American music cultures, jazz, blues, gospel, feminism
Terrion Williamson
Assistant Professor
852 Social Sciences
612-626-7587
[email protected]
African American and African Studies  
Josef Woldense
Assistant Professor
878 Social Sciences
612-624-0122
[email protected]
African American and African Studies; Political Science  
John S Wright
Professor 
883 Soc Sci Building
612-624-0845
[email protected]
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
[email protected]
Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development, CEHD  
Anteneh Zewde
Assistant Professor 
D694 Mayo
612-301-1409
[email protected]
Medical School