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), Gracia Clark* (Anthopology), Claude Clegg* (History), Stuart Davis (Linguistics), Kenneth DeJong* (Linguistics), Hasan El-Shamy* (Folklore, Near East­ern Languages and Cultures), Ann Elsner* (Optometry), Paula Girshick* (Anthropology), Jane Goodman* (Communication and Culture), Matthew Guterl* (American 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),  Alwiya Omar (Clinical Professor, African Studies), 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

Akinwumi Adesokan* (Comparative Literature), Health Akou (Apparel Merchandise), Bonnie Brownlee (Journalism), Rowan Candy* (Optometry), Maron Frank-Wilson (Adjunct Associate Professor of English), Michael Gasser* (Computer Science), 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), Lauren Morris MacLean* (Political Science), 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), Stephen Vinson* (Near Eastern Languages and Cultures), Suresh Viswanathan (Optometry), Margaret Sutton* (Education), Chalmer Thompson (Education), Edward Watts* (History)

Assistant Professors

Jennifer Brass (Public and Environmental Affairs), Beth Buggenhagen (Anthropology), Shingairai Feresu (Kinesiology), 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), 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), Barbara Van Der Pol* (Kinesiology), 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), John W. Johnson* (Emeritus, Folklore), Heitor Martins* (Emeritus, Spanish and Portuguese), Patrick Munson* (Emeritus, Anthopology), Christine Ogan* (Journal­ism), Robert F. Port* (Computer Science, Linguistics), Jack D. Rollins* (Emeritus, David Thelen* (Emeritus, History), Richard Stryker* (Emeritus, Political Science), William Wiggins Jr.* (Emeritus, African American and African Diaspora Studies, Folklore) 

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