Africana Studies Faculty

Research Interests

• Cultural Imaginaries and Representation
• Trans-Genre Writing
• Feminist and Lesbian Studies
• Postcolonial Studies
• Diasporic Literatures
• Water and Environmental Studies
• Transdisciplinary Studies
• Multi-Platform Works
• 20th and 21st Century European Philosophy

Research Interests

• Arabic Culture and Language
• North African Studies
• Popular Culture
• Islamic Studies
• Medieval Western Mediterranean Studies

Teaching Interests

• Arabic Culture and Language
• Islam in Africa and the Mediterranean
• North African Youth Culture
• M. Eastern and North African Literature
• Orientalism

Research Interests

• Ethnomusicology
• Africana Studies
• Cultural Anthropology

Research Interests

• Religion
• African and African Diaspora religions and cultures
• theological studies

Research Interests

• African literatures
• Critical theory
• Global Black studies
• Cultural imaginaries and representation
• Visual cultures
• Diaspora and migration studies
• Digital humanities

Teaching Interests

• African literature
• Black cultural ecologies
• Visual cultures
• African epistemologies
• Diaspora, migration and the environment
• Narrative form and theory

Research Interests

• Black geographies
• Global public health
• Globalization and health
• Aging populations
• Maternal health disparities
• Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in health

Research Interests

• African history
• Modern Zanzibar
• Islam on the Swahili coast
• History & memory
• History of slavery

Teaching Interests

• African history
• African diasporas in the Indian Ocean
• Swahili culture and language
• Comparative race and slavery

Research Interests

• Ethnomusicology
• Musical Cultures of Africa
• Dance Traditions of Ghana
• African Dance
• Drumming

Research Interests

• Feminist philosophy
• African philosophy
• African women studies
• African and African Diaspora art and aesthetics

Teaching Interests

• Artificial Intelligence and Racism
• Race, Philosophy & the Law
• African Intellectual Traditions
• African Art and Aesthetics
• African Women and Feminism

Research Interests

• Health Disparities
• HIV/AIDS
• Sexual Health
• Cardiovascular Health

Teaching Interests

• Global Health
• Refugee & Immigrant Health
• Community and Public Health
• Qualitative Research Methods