African American Studies Faculty
Chair: Charles P. Henry

 

Professors

 

William M. "Bil" Banks, III, Ed.D. (Emeritus)
University of Kentucky
Counseling Psychology, Black Social Institutions

Charles Henry, Ph.D.
University of Chicago
Black Politics, Public Policy
 Graduate Advisor

Percy Hintzen, Ph.D.
Yale University
Political Sociology, Social Change

 

  Michel S. Laguerre, Ph.D.
University of Illinois
Caribbean Anthropology

Margaret B. Wilkerson, Ph.D.  (Emeritus)
University of California, Berkeley
Black Theater, Lorraine Hansberry

 

 

Associate Professors

Na'ilah Suad Nasir, Ph.D.
University of California, Los Angeles
Education

Stephen Small, Ph.D.
University of California, Berkeley
Sociology

 

Ula Taylor, Ph.D.
University of California, Santa Barbara
American History

Assistant Professors

Brandi Wilkins Catanese, Ph.D.
Stanford University
Drama and Humanities
African American Studies/Theatre, Dance & Performance Studies

G. Ugo Nwokeji, Ph.D.
University of Toronto
African and African Diaspora History; the Atlantic Slave Trade

Leigh Raiford, Ph.D.
Yale University
African American Studies and American Studies
African American Studies and American Studies

 

Darieck Scott, Ph.D.
Stanford University
Modern Thought & Literature

Janelle T. Scott, Ph.D.
University of California, Los Angeles
Educational Policy

Adjunct Professor

Robert Allen, Ph.D.
University of California. San Francisco
Sociology

Affiliate Faculty

Jocelyne Guilbault, Ph.D.
University of Michigan
Musicology (Ethnomusicology)

Abdul JanMohamed, Ph.D.
Brandeis University
African American Literature, Postcolonial and World Literature, Critical Theory

Waldo E. Martin, Jr., Ph.D.
University of California, Berkeley
(History) Recent U.S., Black, Cultural, Intellectual

 

Sam A. Mchombo, Ph.D.
University of London
Linguistics

Tyler E. Stovall, Ph.D.
University of Wisconsin-Madison
French History

Minh-Ha Trinh, Ph.D.
University of Illinois
Women's Studies and Rhetoric (Film Theory & Production; Third World Film; Feminist Theory)
Film and Rhetoric

Visiting/Non-Senate Faculty Fall 2008

Joanne Braxton , Ph.D.
Frances L & Edwin L Cummings Prof. of English & Humanities
William & Mary
684 Barrows Hall
642-0534
Office Hours: TBA

jbraxton@berkeley.edu


Michael Cohen, Ph.D.
Yale University, American Studies
698 Barrows Hall
643-0734
Office Hours: Wednesdays 11:30–2:00 pm

mmcohen@berkeley.edu


Aya deLeon, B.A.
Director, June Jordan's Poetry for the People
694 Barrows Hall
642-2743
Office Hours: Thursdays 1:30–3:30 pm

adeleon@berkeley.edu

Hardy Frye, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
Sociology, UC Berkeley
680 Barrows Hall
643-8211
Office Hours: TuTh 1:00–2:00 pm & by appt.

frye@berkeley.edu


Aparajita Nanda, Ph.D.
Jadavpur University, Calcutta, English
678 Barrows Hall
642-5234
Office Hours: Wednesdays 2:00 - 3:00 pm & by appt.

aparananda@berkeley.edu