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Minkah Makalani
Director, Center for Africana Studies
Associate Professor, History
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- [email protected]
- Gilman 326
Education: PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Nadia Nurhussein
Professor, English
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- [email protected]
- 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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- 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

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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- Gilman 26
- 410-516-4311
Education: PhD, Stanford University

Aja Lans
Assistant Professor, Anthropology
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- Mergenthaler 466
- 410-516-7271

Shani Mott
Lecturer
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- 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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- [email protected]
- 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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- 410-516-0875
Research Interests: International relations
Education: PhD, University of Sussex

Lester Spence
Associate Professor, Political Science
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- 363 Mergenthaler
- 410-516-7537
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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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- 410-516-7990
Research Interests: Ghana and study abroad
Education: PhD, North Carolina State University


Didier Gondola
Professor, History
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Education: Ph.D., Université Paris-7

Jared Hickman
Associate Professor, English
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- [email protected]
- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- [email protected]
- 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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- 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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- 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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- 26 Gilman Hall
- 410-516-1103
Research Interests: African American literature
Education: PhD, Johns Hopkins University

Ronald Walters
Academy Professor
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- 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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- 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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- Mergenthaler 230
- 410-516-2438