Faculty
Tenure-Track Faculty
Cassandra L Jones
Assistant Professor, A&S Africana Studies
3623 French Hall
Holly Y McGee
Associate Professor, A&S 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.
Nicholas McLeod
Asst Professor, A&S Africana Studies
French Hall
Joseph Takougang
Professor, Department Head, A&S Africana Studies
3428C French Hall
Edward V Wallace
Professor, A&S Africana Studies
3609 French Hall
- Educators Taking Black Men’s Health to the Forefront. Spectrum 1 NEWS https://spectrumnews1.com/oh/cleveland/news/2023/04/07/educators-bringing-black-men-s-health-to-forefront?fbclid=IwAR3eZCkphf3ebZMyMPbDinhnSX-dS3cMkJlTZmPl-c4pBXlsR7Opiq1q3h
- Black Male Employees to Host Summit in Higher Education. WLWT Channel 5 News. https://www.uc.edu/news/articles/2023/04/wlwt-and-spectrum-news-cover-ucs-2nd-annual-black-male-summit.html
- Let’s Talk Cincy: Ending High Rates of Infant Mortality in the Black Community. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzk3gZnzMxE
- Questions and Answers: UC Professor Reaches Health Disparities in Marginalized Populations. The News Record https://www.newsrecord.org/arts_and_entertainment/q-a-uc-professor-researches-health-disparities-in-marginalized-populations/article_0f7234a6-4ccd-11ec-ae36-eb75f61858a1.html
- Cincinnati Lost Year: https://www.uc.edu/news/articles/2020/11/how-covid-19--has-exacerbated-issues-in-minority-and-low-income-households-in-cincinnati-.html
- UC Public Health Expert: African American Health Disparities to remain post COVID.19. Cincinnati Herald. http://thecincinnatiherald.com/2020/05/uc-public-health- expert- african-american-health-disparities-to-remain-post-covid/
Dr. Wallace received his training from The State University of New York College at Cortland, The University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and The University of Alabama.
Guy-Lucien Whembolua
Professor, A&S Africana Studies
3605 French Hall
Educator Faculty
John K. Kalubi
Associate Teaching Professor, A&S Africana Studies
3622 French Hall
Adjunct Faculty
Lotsmart N Fonjong
Professor - Adj Ann, Africana Studies
French Hall
Lotsmart N Fonjong
Professor - Adj Ann, Africana Studies
French Hall
Lotsmart N Fonjong
Professor - Adj Ann, Africana Studies
French Hall
Affiliate Faculty
Anima Adjepong
Associate Professor & Department Head, Africana Studies
3302 French Hall
Omotayo O Banjo
Professor, Africana Studies
Van Wormer Hall
Littisha Bates
Associate Professor (PhD, Arizona State University), Africana Studies
147 ARTSCI
Littisha Bates CV
RJ Boutelle
Assoc Professor, Africana Studies
110G ARTSCI
Letisha Engracia Cardoso Brown
Asst Professor, Africana Studies
260C ARTSCI
Ashley M Currier
Professor, Africana Studies
5118 CLIFTCT
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
5136 CLIFTCT
Theresa Leininger-Miller
Professor, Africana Studies
6489B Aronoff Center
Publications include Illustrated Sheet Music in the U.S., 1830-1930 (2025; co-edited); New Negro Artists in Paris: African American Painters and Sculptors in the City of Light, 1922-1934 (Rutgers, 2001); and essays in John Wilson: Witnessing Humanity (Metropolitan Museum of Art/Boston MFA, 2025); Bandwagon: The Journal of the Circus Historical Society; Imprinted: Illustrating Race; Reading Southern Art (forthcoming); Routledge Companion to African American Art History; Deborah Grant; Women Artists of the Harlem Renaissance; Out of Context: American Artists Abroad; The Modern Woman Revisited: Paris Between the Wars; Black Paris; Paris Connections: African American Artists in Paris; Picture Cincinnati in Song, Panorama, Source: Notes in the History of Art; and multiple book and exhibition reviews in 19th-Century Art Worldwide, Journal of American History, caa.reviews, and elsewhere.
Leininger-Miller has lectured throughout the U.S., France, and Germany, and appeared on radio, television, and in documentaries. She has curated 19th-century photography and illustrated sheet usic exhibitions at the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Yale University Art Gallery, Weston Art Gallery, Auburn University, and Langsam, Blegen, and DAAP Libraries at UC. Awards are from Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Norman Rockwell Museum, the NEH, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Research Center, Kress, Luce, and Smithsonian Institution. She was Chair of the national professional organization, the Association of Historians of American Art. She leads Honors seminars and a class with a study abroad component to London, "The Black Body in European Art," among other courses on 17th-21st century African American, American, and European art. Currently she is researching 19th-century circus and sideshow photography.
Sharrell D Luckett
Professor, Africana Studies
50A ARTSCI
Leila Rodriguez
Senior Research Associate, Africana Studies
450 Braunstein Hall
Senior Associate Researcher
I am former Professor of Anthropology who maintains an affiliate Senior Associate Researcher position. Broadly, my research questions how societies manage cultural diversity. One line of research studies the local-level integration of migrants and the sociocultural construction of (il)legality. The second line of research investigates how judicial systems in the U.S. and Latin America use culture as evidence in legal conflicts involving migrants and asylum-seekers.
Alexander John Thurston
Assoc Professor, Africana Studies
5133 CLIFTCT
Emeriti Faculty
Kenneth Ghee
Professor Emeritus, Africana Studies
Charles E. Jones
Professor, Africana Studies