Chair
- William A Darity Jr
- Arts & Sciences Professor of Public Policy and African & African American Studies and Professor of Economics
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Associate Chair
- Wahneema Lubiano
- Associate Professor of African & African American Studies and Literature
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Director of Undergraduate Studies
- Wahneema Lubiano
- Associate Professor of African & African American Studies and Literature
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Assistant to Director of Undergraduate Studies
Director of Graduate Studies
Assistant to Director of Graduate Studies
Faculty
Primary
- Michaeline A Crichlow
- Professor
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I am interested in projects related to citizenship, nationalism and development mainly in the Atlantic and Pacific regions. My current projects are focused on the sorts of claims that populations deemed diasporic make on states, and how these reconfigure their communities and general sociocultural practices. I am also interested in development's impact ...
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- Mark Anthony Neal
- Professor
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I am engaged in interdisciplinary scholarly work in the fields of African-American, Cultural, and Gender Studies that draws upon modes of inquiry informed by the fields of literary theory, urban sociology, social history, postmodern philosophy, Queer theory and most notably popular culture. My broad project is to interrogate popular culture--music, ...
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Joint
- William A Darity Jr
- Arts & Sciences Professor of Public Policy and African & African American Studies and Professor of Economics
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- Thomas F. DeFrantz
- Professor of African & African American Studies and Dance
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- Thavolia Glymph
- Associate Professor of African & African American Studies and History
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Having completed Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household (Cambridge, 2008), I turned my attention back to a project begun years before on the experience of enslaved and freed women on the battlefields of the Civil War. This study focuses on the lives of black women and children in Civil War refugee, and labor camps. ...
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- Sharon P Holland
- Associate Professor of English and African & African American Studies
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- Wahneema Lubiano
- Associate Professor of African & African American Studies and Literature
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- Anne-Maria B Makhulu
- Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology and African & African American Studies and Adjunct Assistant Professor, The Fuqua School of Business
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Anne-Maria Makhulu is an Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology and African and African American Studies at Duke University. She received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Chicago in 2003. Her research interests cover: Africa and more specifically South Africa, cities, space, globalization, political economy, occult economies, ...
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- J. Lorand Matory
- Lawrence Richardson Professor of Cultural Anthropology and African & African American Studies and Director, Center for African and African American Research
- J. Lorand Matory is Lawrence Richardson Professor of Cultural Anthropology and African and African American Studies and Professor of African and African American Studies at Duke University. He researches the trans-Atlantic comings and goings of Yoruba religion, which has shaped social order and traditions of worship and healing all over the Americas. He also studies ethnic diversity in the Black population of the ...
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- Charles D Piot
- Professor of Cultural Anthropology, African & African American Studies and Women's Studies and Joint of African & African American Studies
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Charlie Piot is Creed C. Black Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology and African and African American Studies. His work focuses on the political economy and history of rural West Africa. He is the author of Remotely Global: Village Modernity in West Africa (1999) and is currently conducting research on transnational constructions of Africa ...
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Secondary
- Lamonte Aidoo
- Assistant Professor, Portuguese Studies of Romance Studies and African & African American Studies
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- Lee D. Baker
- Professor, Cultural Anthropology and Dean of Academic Affairs of Trinity College
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- Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
- Professor, Sociology, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
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Currently I am working on two books entitled, Anything but Racism: How Social Analysts Limit the Significance of Race (with Gianpaolo Baiocchi and Hayward Horton) and White Logic, White Methods: Racism and Methodology (with Tukufu Zuberi). I am also working on a project entitled, "We are All Americans! The Latin Americanization of Race Relations in ...
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- Linda Burton
- James B. Duke Professor of Sociology and African & African American Studies
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- Laurent M. Dubois
- Marcello Lotti Professor of Romance Studies and History and Interim Director of Graduate Studies (Fall 2011), Professor of French Studies and History, and Director of the Center for French & Francophone Studies
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- Kerry L Haynie
- Associate Professor of Political Science and African & African American Studies
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- Karla FC Holloway
- James B. Duke Professor of English and Professor of Law
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- Sherman A James
- Susan B. King Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Sociology; Community and Family Medicine; African and African American Studies
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- Claudia Milian
- Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Romance Studies
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- Richard J Powell
- Professor
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Richard J. Powell received his Ph.D. from Yale University. His research and teaching interests lie in American art, African American art, and theories of race and representation in the African diaspora. He is also interested in the media arts and conceptualizations of the "folk" in world art and culture. His books include Homecoming: The Art and ...
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- Keith E Whitfield
- Research Professor of Psychology: Social and Health Sciences and African & African American Studies
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Visiting
- Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe
- Visiting Associate Professor
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I am a former Reader in Anthropology at the University of East London in the U.K., where I taught for 10 years. I am currently a Visiting Associate Professor of African and African American Studies at Duke University.
NEW GEOPOLITICAL AND GENDERED CARTOGRAPHIES OF THE GLOBAL AFRICAN DIASPORA
Since 2000, I have been researching, writing about, and ...
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- Rhonda V Sharpe
- Research Scientist of Economics and Visiting Professor of African & African American Studies
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- Yolonda Y. Wilson
- Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Visiting Assistant Professor of African & African American Studies
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Staff
Graduate Students
- Ronni B. Armstead
- Graduate Student of Cultural Anthropology and African & African American Studies
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- Gloria Y. Ayee
- Graduate Student of Political Science and African & African American Studies
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- Rizvana G Braxton
- Graduate Student of Literature and African & African American Studies
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- Layla D. Brown
- Graduate Student of Cultural Anthropology and African & African American Studies
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- Ashon T Crawley
- Graduate Student of English and African & African American Studies
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- Allison S. Curseen
- Graduate Student of English and African & African American Studies
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- Christina C Davidson
- Graduate Student of History and African & African American Studies
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- Aude Dieude
- Graduate Student Instructor, French of Romance Studies and Graduate Student Abroad, French of African & African American Studies
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- Tamara Extianbabiuk
- Graduate Student of History and African & African American Studies
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- Meggan A. Farish
- Graduate Student of History and African & African American Studies
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- Rebecca E. Keegan VanDiver
- Graduate Student of Art, Art History & Visual Studies and African & African American Studies
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- Anna K. Kivlan
- Graduate Student of Art, Art History & Visual Studies and African & African American Studies
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- Darren Mueller
- Musicology of Music and Graduate Student of African & African American Studies
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- Victor E. Ray
- Graduate Student of Sociology and African & African American Studies
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- Danielle L. Terrazas Williams
- Graduate Student of History and African & African American Studies
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- Valerie C. Wade
- Graduate Student of History and African & African American Studies
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Postdoctoral Associates
