Curriculum
Courses
Faculty

(An asterisk [*] denotes membership in the University Gradu­ate School faculty with the endorsement to direct doctoral dissertations.)

Director and Graduate Advisor

Professor Samuel Obeng

Associate Director and Undergraduate Advisor

Maria Grosz-Ngate

Osita Afoaku (Clinical Professor of Public and Environmental Affairs), Akwasi B. Assensoh* (African American and African Diaspora Studies), Erna Alant* (Education), Robert Botne* (Linguistics), Mellonee Burnim* (Folklore and Ethnomusicology), Kevin Brown (Law), Claude Clegg* (History), Stuart Davis (Linguistics), Hasan El-Shamy* (Folklore, Near East­ern Languages and Cultures), Ann Elsner* (Optometry), Paula Girshick* (Anthropology), Matthew Guterl (African American and African Diaspora Studies), Kevin Hunt* (Anthropology), Eileen Julien* (African American and African Diaspora Studies, French and Italian, Comparative Literature), David Lohrmann* (Applied Health Science), Victor Malinovsky (Clinical Professor of Optometry), Portia Maultsby* (Folklore and Ethnomusicol­ogy), Audrey McCluskey (African American and African Diaspora Studies), Patrick McNaughton* (Fine Arts), Emilio Moran* (Rudy Professor, Anthropology), Samuel Gyasi Obeng* (Linguistics),  Patrick O’Meara* (Political Science, Public and Environmental Affairs), Robert F. Port* (Computer Science, Linguistics), Jack D. Rollins (African Studies Program, English & Swahili), Iris Rosa (African Ameri­can and African Diaspora Studies), Darlene Sadlier* (Spanish and Portuguese), Kathy Schick* (Anthropology), Jeanne Sept* (Anthropology), Suzanne Stetkevych* (Near Eastern Languages and Cultures), Beverly Stoeltje* (Anthropology, Communica­tion and Culture), Ruth Stone* (Folklore), Mohammad Torabi* (Applied Health Science), Nicholas Toth* (Anthropology), David Williams* (Law), Richard Wilk* (Anthropology)

Associate Professors

Bonnie Brownlee (Journalism), Rowan Candy* (Optometry), Gracia Clark* (Anthropology), Maron Frank-Wilson (Adjunct Associate Professor of English), Michael Gasser* (Computer Science), Kenneth DeJong (Linguistics), Jane Goodman (Com­munications and Culture), Mary E. Grabe* (Telecommunica­tions), Jane Grogg (Clinical Associate Professor), John H. Hanson* (History), Vivian Halloran (Comparative Literature), Patricia Henderson* (Optometry), Douglas Horner* (Optometry), Jim Kelly (Journalism), Don Lyon (Clinical Associate Professor of Optometry), Murray McGibbon (Theatre and Drama), Susan Middlestadt* (Applied Health Science), Martha Nyikos* (Education), Cecilia Obeng* (Applied Health Science), Alwiya Omar (Clinical Associate Professor of African Studies, Linguis­tics), Marissa Moorman* (History), Michael Reece* (Applied Health Science), Daniel Reed* (Folklore and Ethnomusicology), Richard Stryker* (Emeritus, Political Science), Suresh Viswanathan (Optometry), Margaret Sutton* (Education), Chalmer Thompson (Education), Edward Watts* (History)

Assistant Professors

Akinwumi Adesokan (Comparative Literature), Heather Akou (Apparel Merchandising), Beth Buggenhagen (Anthropology), Ona Fernando* (Applied Health Science), Maria Grosz-Ngaté (Adjunct Assistant Professor of Anthropol­ogy, Academic Specialist in African Studies), Kevin Houston (Clinical Assistant Professor, Optometry), Kimberly Kohne (Clinical Assistant Professor, Optometry), Pete Kollbaum (Optometry), Lauren Morris MacLean* (Political Science), Michelle Moyd (History), Todd Peabody (Clinical Assistant Professor, Optometry), Diane Pelrine (Art History), Jeffrey Perotti (Clinical Assistant Professor of Optometry), Nicholas Port (Optometry), Beth Samueleson* (Education), Ahmed Youssefagha* (Applied Health Science)

Emeriti

Robert Arnove* (Emerita, Chancellor’s Professor, Educa­tion), Salih Altoma* (Emeritus, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures), Randall Baker* (Public and Enviornmental Affairs), George E. Brooks Jr.* (Emeritus, History), Trevor Brown* (Emer­itus, Journalism), Mary Goetze* (Emeritus, Music), Phyllis Mar­tin* (Emerita, Ruth N. Halls Professor, History), Robert Port (Emeritus, Linguistics), Heitor Martins* (Emeritus, Spanish and Portuguese), Christine Ogan* (Journal­ism), Robert F. Port* (Computer Science, Linguistics), David Thelen* (Emeritus, History), William Wiggins Jr.* (Emeritus, African American and African Diaspora Studies, Folklore), John W. Johnson* (Emeritus, Folklore), Patrick Munson* (Emeritus, Anthropology), Richard Stryker* (Emeritus, Political Science)

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