Faculty, Staff & Students
Tenure-Track Faculty
Cassandra L Jones
Assistant Professor, Africana Studies
3623 French Hall
Holly Y McGee
Associate Professor, Africana Studies
ARTSCI
Presently, Dr. McGee is conducting research for her book, a biographical oral history of South African activist Elizabeth Mafeking. Mafeking was one of four women featured in Dr. McGee's dissertation, “When the Window Closed: Gender, Race, and (Inter)Nationalism, the United States and South Africa, 1920s-1960s,” which put into conversation existent and new scholarship regarding black radical women of the Left in the United States and South Africa during the twentieth century and was primarily concerned with the evolution of women’s protest from localized issues of race-based discrimination to international, anti-colonial protests of the era.
Dr. McGee’s most recent publication credit, “‘It was the wrong time and they just weren’t ready’: Direct-action protest at Arkansas Agricultural, Mechanical & Normal College (AM&N),” appeared as a reprint in Arsnick: The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in Arkansas, an edited collection on SNCC’s pivotal role in transforming the status of racial discrimination in Arkansas in the 1960s. Additionally, she has forthcoming articles in the fields of local Arkansas history, and South African women's history.
Joseph Takougang
Professor, Department Head, Africana Studies
3428C French Hall
Edward V Wallace
Associate Professor , Africana Studies
3609 French Hall
Guy-Lucien Whembolua
Associate Professor, Africana Studies
3605 French Hall
Educator Faculty
John K. Kalubi
Associate Teaching Professor, A&S Africana Studies
3622 French Hall
Adjunct Faculty
Karen Jean Cudjoe
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Africana Studies
440 Langsam Library
Lotsmart N Fonjong
Adjunct Professor, Africana Studies
French Hall
Affiliate Faculty
Anima Adjepong
Assistant Professor, Africana Studies
3302 French Hall
Omotayo O Banjo
Associate Professor, Africana Studies
121-A ARTSCI
Littisha Bates
Associate Professor (PhD, Arizona State University), Africana Studies
150 ARTSCI
Littisha Bates CV
RJ Boutelle
Asst Professor, Africana Studies
110G ARTSCI
Letisha Engracia Cardoso Brown
Asst Professor, Africana Studies
Crosley Tower
Ashley M Currier
Professor, Department Head of , Africana Studies
3428E French Hall
Ashley Currier is a sociologist who studies lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) organizing in Côte d’Ivoire, Liberia, Malawi, Namibia, and South Africa.
Lauren Forbes
Asst Professor, Africana Studies
Crosley Tower
Theresa Leininger-Miller
Professor, Africana Studies
6489B Aronoff Center
Leila Rodriguez
Associate Professor, Africana Studies
450 Braunstein Hall
Affiliate faculty, Department of Africana Studies
Affiliate faculty, Department of Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
Affiliate faculty, Department of Sociology
Affiliate faculty, Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies
Collaborator, Central American Population Center (University of Costa Rica)
I am a cultural anthropologist and demographer whose research centers on the local integration dynamics of migrants. A second line of research examines the use of culture as judicial evidence – in the form of anthropological expert testimony – in legal conflicts that involve immigrants and refugees.
Regional interests: Central America, Latin America, U.S.
Alexander John Thurston
Assistant Professor, Africana Studies
1210A Crosley Tower
Emeriti Faculty
Kenneth Ghee
Professor Emeritus, Africana Studies
Charles E. Jones
Professor, Africana Studies
Staff
Evajean S O'Neal
Business Administrator, Africana Studies
1210B Crosley Tower