Faculty & Staff

Courtesy Faculty

Faculty members of our Department maintain a healthy interaction with other disciplines mostly through joint and courtesy appointments. Our Department is enriched in its research, teaching, and service by a host of faculty members budgeted to other departments but whose areas of academic interest are Africa and/or the African Diaspora.

Name

Discipline

Related Specialty

Academic Rank

Phone

E-mail

Glenn Adams Psychology Africa (Ghana) Assoc. Professor (785)864-9481 adamsg@ku.edu

Shiferaw Assefa

Libraries

African History

Assist. Professor

(785)864-4593

sassefa@ku.edu

Omofolabo Ajayi-Soyinka

Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Theatre

Afr. Women/Afr. Literature
Afr. Dance & Theatre

Professor

(785)864-2312

omofola@ku.edu

Giselle Anatol

English

African-American and
Caribbean Literature

Assoc. Professor

(785)864-2530

ganatol@ku.edu

Elizabeth Asiedu

Economics

International economics

Assoc. Professor

(785)864-2843

asiedu@ku.edu

Hannah Britton

Political Science/Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies

African Politics

Assoc. Professor

(785)864-9016

britton@ku.edu
Chris Brown Geography African Geography Assoc. Professor (785)864-5543 jcbrown2@ku.edu

Byron Caminero-Santangelo

English

African Literature

Assoc. Professor

(785)864-4520

bsantang@ku.edu

Marta Caminero-Santangelo

English

Caribbean, Latin American Literature

Professor

(785)864-2521

camsan@ku.edu
Deborah Dandridge Spencer Research Library History Assoc. Professor (785)864-2028 ddandrid@ku.edu
Jacob Dorman History/American Studies African-American History & Religion Asst. Professor (785)864-9453 dorman@ku.edeu

Mohamed El-Hodiri

Economics

Arabic, Arab Culture

Professor

(785)864-2838

elhodiri@ku.edu

Johannes Feddema

Geography

African Geography

Professor

(785)864-5143

feddema@ku.edu

Jane Gibson

Anthropology

African-American Identity

Assoc. Professor

(785)864-2635

jwgc@ku.edu

Malcolm Gibson

Journalism

East African

Assoc. Professor

(785)864-7667

mgibson@ku.edu

Maryemma Graham

English

Afr.-Am. Literature

Professor

(785)864-2557

mgraham@ku.edu

Sandra Gray

Anthropology

African Anthropology

Assoc. Professor

(785)864-2646

sjgray@ku.edu

William Harris

English

African-American Literature

Assoc. Professor

(785)864-2534

wjh8@ku.edu

Shirley Hill

Sociology

Family, Medical Systems, Social Inequality

Professor

(785)864-9420

hill@ku.edu

Yolanda Jackson

Human Dev & Family Life

African - America

Assoc. Professor

(785)864-3581

yjackson@ku.edu

John Janzen

Anthropology

Afr. Anthropology

Professor

(785)864-2642

jjanzen@ku.edu
Toni Johnson Social Welfare Diversity, African-American Family Assoc.. Prof. (785)864-3825 tkjohns@ku.edu

David Katzman

American Studies

Afr-American History

Professor

(785)864-2302

dkatzman@ku.edu

Cheryl Lester

American Studies

20th-Century Afr.-Am. Literature & Culture

Assoc. Professor

(785)864-2503

chlester@ku.edu

Tom Lewin

History

African History

Assoc. Professor

(785)864-9444

tomlewin@ku.edu

Timothy Miller

Religious Studies

Afr-American Religion

Professor

(785)864-7263

tkansas@ku.edu

Joane Nagel

Sociology

African, African-American

Distingd.
Professor

(785)864-4114

nagel@ku.edu

Mehrangiz Najafizadeh

Sociology

Social Inequality, Third World

Assoc. Professor

(785)864-9421

najafizadeh@ku.edu

Anton Rosenthal

History

African Labor History

Assoc. Professor

(785)864-9475

surreal@ku.edu
Samira Sayeh French & Italian Francophone Literatures and Cultural Studies Assoc.. Professor (785) 864-9010 sayeh@ku.edu
           

David Smith

Sociology

Africa

Professor

(785)864-9417

emerald@ku.edu

John Edgar Tidwell

English

Afr-American Literature

Professor

(785)864-2583

tidwelje@ku.edu

Sherrie Tucker

American Studies

Jazz history, Race and Ethnicity

Assoc. Professor

(785)864-2305

SherrieTu@aol.com

Kevin Willmott

Theatre and Film

African-American Film

Assoc. Professor

(785)864-1350

willmott@ku.edu