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Minkah Makalani
Director, Center for Africana Studies
Associate Professor, History
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- mmakala1@jhu.edu
- Gilman 326
Education: PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Nadia Nurhussein
Professor, English
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- nnurhus1@jhu.edu
- Gilman 34
- 410-516-4104
Research Interests: African American literature, late 19th- and early 20th-century American literature, poetry and poetics
Education: PhD, University of California, Berkeley
James Calvin
Professor, Carey Business School
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- jcalvin@jhu.edu
- 410-234-9409
Research Interests: Leadership development, community economic development, and nonprofit organizations
Education: PhD, New York University
Nathan Connolly
Herbert Baxter Adams Associate Professor of History
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Education: PhD, University of Michigan
Michael Degani
Associate Director, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Center for Africana Studies
Assistant Professor, Anthropology
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- mdegani1@jhu.edu
- Mergenthaler 458
- 410-516-5482
Research Interests: Energy use and infrastructure in African cities, anthropology of the state, comparative postsocialisms, China/Africa relations, and urban popular culture
Daniel Desormeaux
William D. and Robin Mayer Professor, Modern Languages and Literatures
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Education: PhD, Emory University; M.A., Université du Québec à Montréal; M.A. Johns Hopkins University
Lawrence Jackson
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of English and History
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- ljacks60@jhu.edu
- Gilman 26
- 410-516-4311
Education: PhD, Stanford University
Shani Mott
Lecturer
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- smott2@jhu.edu
- 230 Mergenthaler
- 410-516-7659
Education: PhD, University of Michigan
Stuart Schrader
Associate Research Professor, Center for Africana Studies
Associate Director, Program in Racism, Immigration, & Citizenship
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- stuart.schrader@jhu.edu
- Mergenthaler 231
Research Interests: Racial inequality in criminal justice, war and empire, historical-comparative methods, social theory
Education: PhD, New York University
Robbie Shilliam
Professor, Political Science
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- r.shilliam@jhu.edu
- 410-516-0875
Research Interests: International relations
Education: PhD, University of Sussex
Lester Spence
Associate Professor, Political Science
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- unbowed@gmail.com
- 363 Mergenthaler
- 410-516-7537
- Group/Lab Website
Research Interests: Black politics, race and politics, urban politics
Education: PhD, University of Michigan
Elizabeth Thornberry
Associate Professor, History
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Education: PhD, Stanford University
Affiliated Faculty
Yolanda Abel
Associate Professor and Chair of the the Department of Advanced Studies in Education, Johns Hopkins School of Education
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Education: EdD
Norma Day-Vines
Professor, Johns Hopkins School of Education
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- norma.dayvines@jhu.edu
- 410-516-7990
Research Interests: Ghana and study abroad
Education: PhD, North Carolina State University
Jared Hickman
Associate Professor, English
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- jhickman@jhu.edu
- Gilman 30C
- 410-516-3843
Education: PhD, Harvard University
Jeanne-Marie Jackson
Associate Professor, English
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Education: PhD, Yale University
Jessica Marie Johnson
Associate Professor, History
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- jmj@jhu.edu
- Gilman 372
Research Interests: Women, gender, and sexuality in the African diaspora; histories of slavery and the slave trade; and digital history and new media
Education: PhD, University of Maryland, College Park
Chris Lebron
Associate Professor of Philosophy, Chair of the AAP Master of Liberal Arts Program
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Education: PhD, MIT
Barbara Morgan
Senior Lecturer, Undergraduate Economics Adviser
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- bmorgan@jhu.edu
- Wyman Park Building 522
- 410-516-6135
Research Interests: Labor economics, public policy
Education: PhD, Florida State University
John Burthorne Sampson
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology & Critical Care Medicine, School of Medicine
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- jsampso4@jhmi.edu
- 410-955-2611
Research Interests: Notable historical and current relationships between African Americans and Africans on the continent of Africa
Education: MD, University of California, San Francisco
Todd Shepard
Arthur O. Lovejoy Professor of History
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Education: PhD, Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Roland J. Thorpe, Jr.
Associate Professor, Bloomberg School of Public Health
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- rthorpe@jhu.edu
- Hampton House 708
- 410-502-8977
Research Interests: Health disparities, race, SES, poverty status, functional decline, functional status, lower extremity functioning, hypertension, mobility limitation, older adults, men's health disparities across the life course
Sasha Turner
Associate Professor, History
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Education: PhD, University of Cambridge
Alexandre White
Assistant Professor, Sociology
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- alexandrewhite@jhu.edu
- Mergenthaler 541B
- 410-516-0650
Research Interests: Comparative historical sociology, medical sociology, post-colonial theory, global and transnational sociology, sociology of race and ethnicity, sociology of global health
Education: PhD, Boston University
Leah Wright Rigueur
SNF Agora Institute Associate Professor of History
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Education: PhD, Princeton University
professor emeriti
Jane Guyer
Professor, Anthropology
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- jiguyer@jhu.edu
- 404G Macaulay
- 410-516-4690
Research Interests: Social and economic anthropology, West Africa
Education: PhD, University of Rochester
Eric Sundquist
Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities, English
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- ejs@jhu.edu
- 26 Gilman Hall
- 410-516-1103
Research Interests: African American literature
Education: PhD, Johns Hopkins University
Ronald Walters
Academy Professor
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- rgw1@jhu.edu
- Gilman 302
- 410-516-7588
Research Interests: Social and cultural history of the United States with special interest in radicalism, reform, race, and popular culture
Education: PhD, University of California, Berkeley
retired faculty
Floyd W. Hayes, III
Senior Lecturer, Center for Africana Studies
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- fwhayes3@jhu.edu
- 410-516-7659
Research Interests: Africana philosophy, politics, and policy; educational politics and policymaking; urban politics and policymaking; politics of jazz
Education: PhD, University of Maryland
staff
Indira Jones
Sr. Administrative Coordinator
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- ijones32@jhu.edu
- Mergenthaler 230
- 410-516-2438
Postdoctoral Fellow
Tao Leigh Goffe
Postdoctoral Fellow and Co-Organizer of the Diaspora Solidarities Lab
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Research Interests: Postdoctoral Fellow and Co-Organizer of the Diaspora Solidarities Lab
Education: PhD