Director and Graduate Advisor

Beth Samuelson (Director)

Graduate Faculty

(An asterisk [*] next to a person’s name denotes membership in the University Graduate School with an endorsement to direct doctoral dissertations.) 

Associate Director

Tavy Aherne

Undergraduate Advisor

Nana Amoah-Ramey

Professors

Osita Afoaku (Clinical Professor, Public and Environmental Affairs), Salman Al-Ani (Near Eastern Languages and Cultures), Stafford C. Berry, Jr. (Professor of Practice, African American and African Diaspora); Kevin Brown* (Law), Stuart Davis* (Linguistics), Elizabeth Cullen Dunn (Geography); Marion Frank-Wilson (Library), Maria E. Grabe* (Media School), Vivian Halloran* (American Studies), John H. Hanson* (History; African Studies), Kevin Hunt* (Anthropology), Jayanth K. Krishnan,* (Law), Patricia Kubow* (Education), Alex Lichtenstein* (History), Don Lyon* (Optometry),  Lauren M. MacLean* (Political Science), Beth Meyerson (School of Public Health), Samuel Gyasi Obeng* (Linguistics), Christiana Ochoa* (Law), Alwiya Omar (Clinical Professor, African Studies), Solimar Otero (Folklore and Ethnomusicology), Oana Panaite* (French and Italian), Jamie Prenkert (Business), Michael Reece* (Applied Health Science),  Byron Santangelo (English), Kathy Schick* (Anthropology), Stephen Vinson* (Near Eastern Languages and Cultures), David Williams* (Law), Susan Williams* (Law)

Associate Professors

Akinwumi Adesokan* (Comparative Literature and Media School), Heather Akou (Apparel Merchandising), Assad Alsaleh (Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures); Vincent Bouchard* (French and Italian), Jennifer Brass* (Public and Environmental Affairs), Beth Buggenhagen* (Anthropology), Barbara Dennis* (Education), Sameeksha Desai* (Director, Institute for Development Strategies), Elizabeth Dunn (Geography), Temitope Erinosho (Applied Health Science), Sergio Fernandez* (Public and Environmental Affairs), Gregory Fisher (Business), Laura Foster (Gender Studies), Jane Goodman* (Anthropology), James Kelly* (Journalism), Pedro Machado* (History), Bárbero Martínez-Ruiz* (Art History), Beth E. Meyerson* (Applied Health Science), Nader Morkus* (Near Eastern Languages and CulturesLuciana Namorato* (Spanish and Portuguese), Jackson Njau* (Geology), Martha Nyikos* (Education), Cecilia Obeng* (Applied Health Science), Sarah Osterhoudt* (Anthropology), Todd Peabody (Clinical Associate Professor, Optometry), Phillip Powell (Clinical Associate Professor, Kelley School of Business), Beth Samuelson* (Education), Whitney Schlegel (Biology), Abdulkader Sinno (Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures), Jessica Steinberg (International Studies),  Estela Vieira* (Spanish and Portuguese), Sarah Young* (School of Public Health)

Assistant Professors

Maria Hamilton Abegunde (African American and African Diaspora Studies ); Nana Amoah-Ramey (African American and African Diaspora Studies; African Studies); Christina Collins (Anthropoloy); Greg Fisher (Kelly School of Business), Elena Guzman (African American and African Diaspora Studies);  Oghenekaro Omodior (School of Public Health), Clémence Pinaud (International Studies), Esi Eduwaa Thompson (The Media School), India Thusi (Law), Michael Wasserman (Anthropology)

Teaching Professors

Henry Wakhungu (Publoc and Environmental Affairs) 

Lecturers

Tavy Aherne (African Studies), Issam Albdairat (Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures); Iman Alramadan (Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures); Clark Barwick (Senior Lecturer, Business); Bongeka BuhlebaMashasha Hlengwa-Selepe (African Studies), Jon Eldon (Public and Environmental Affairs); Kazeem Sanuth (African Studies), Fred Schlegel (Business), Amadou Beidy Sow (Senior Lecturer, African Studies); Attia Youseif (Middle eastern Languages and Cultures)

Emeriti

Erna Alant* (Emeritus, Education), Robert Arnove* (Emeritus, Chancellor’s Professor, Education), Akwasi B. Assensoh* (Emeritus, African American and African Diaspora Studies), Salih Altoma* (Emeritus, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures), Randall Baker* (Emeritus, Public and Environmental Affairs), Robert Botne (Emeritus, Linguistics), Mellonee Burnim* (Emerita, Folklore and Ethnomusicology), George E. Brooks Jr.* (Emeritus, History), Trevor Brown* (Emeritus, Journalism), Bonnie Brownlee* (Emerita, Journalism), Gracia Clark* (Emerita, Anthropology), Hasan El-Shamy* (Emeritus, Folklore), Ann Elsner (Emerita, Optometry). Paula Girshick* (Emerita, Anthropology), Mary Goetze* (Emerita, Music), John W. Johnson* (Emeritus, Folklore), Eileen Julien* (Comparative Literature, French and Italian), David Lohrman (Emeritus, Applied Health), Michael Martin (The Media School), Phyllis Martin* (Emerita, Ruth N. Halls Professor, History), Heitor Martins* (Emeritus, Spanish and Portuguese), Portia Maultsby* (Emerita, Folklore and Ethnomusicology), Audrey McCluskey (Emerita, African American and African Diaspora Studies), Patrick McNaughton* (Emeritus, Chancellor’s Professor, Art History), Susan Middlestadt (School of Public Health), Emilio Moran* (Emeritus, Anthropology), Patrick Munson* (Emeritus, Anthropology), Paul Newman* (Emeritus, Linguistics), Christine Ogan* (Emerita, Journalism), Patrick O'Meara* (Emeritus, Political Science, Public and Environmental Affairs), Diane Pelrine* (Emerita, Art History), Robert F. Port* (Emeritus, Computer Science, Linguistics), Daniel Reed* (Emeritus, Folklore and Ethnomusicology), Iris Rosa* (Emerita, African American and African Diaspora Studies), Darlene Sadlier* (Emerita, Spanish and Portuguese), Antonia Schleicher (Emerita, African Studies)Jeanne Sept* (Emerita, Anthropology),  John Stanfield II (Emeritus, African American and African Diaspora Studies), Rex Stockton (Emeritus, Education), Beverly Stoeltje* (Emerita, Anthropology, Communication and Culture), Ruth Stone* (Emerita, Folklore and Ethnomusicology), Richard Stryker* (Emeritus, Political Science), Margaret Sutton* (Education), Mohammed Torabi (Emeritus, Applied Health), Richard Wilk* (Emeritus, Anthropology)

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