Faculty & Staff

Chair: Floris Barnett Cash, Ph.D.

Director of Undergraduate Studies: Tracey Walters, Ph.D.

Director of Graduate Studies: E. Anthony Hurley, Ph.D.

Winnifred R. Brown-Glaude - Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Temple University (2003): Race and Ethnicity in the Caribbean and Latin America; Gender and Development; Intersectionality; Women and Informal Economies; Race and Race Relations in the United States; Sociology of the Body; Black Feminism; Social Research; Feminist Research Method.
Email: Winnifred.Brown@stonybrook.edu

Floris Barnett Cash - Associate Professor, Ph.D., State University of New York at Stony Brook (1986): Joint appointment with History; U.S. social and political history; African-American history; Latin American history.
Email: Floris.Cash@stonybrook.edu

David L. Ferguson - Professor, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley: Joint appointment with Department of Technology and Society; Quantitative methods; computer applications (especially intelligent tutorial systems and decision support systems); mathematics, science and engineering education.
Email: David.Ferguson@stonybrook.edu

Georges Fouron - Professor, Ed.D., Teachers College, Columbia University (1985): Social studies education; bilingual education; identity; Haiti; immigrants' experience in America; transnationalism.
Email: Georges.Fouron@stonybrook.edu

Barbara E. Frank - Associate Professor, Ph.D. Indiana University (1988): Joint appointment with art and anthropology; African art history, especially West Africa; and arts of the African Diaspora and ancient Mesoamerica.
Email: Barbara.Frank@stonybrook.edu

E. Anthony Hurley - Associate Professor, Ph.D., Rutgers University (1992): Joint appointment with European Languages, Literatures, and Cultures; Francophone literature of the Caribbean and Africa; Caribbean poetics; AfroCaribbean culture; Caribbean American literature.
Email: Anthony.Hurley@stonybrook.edu

Peniel Joseph - Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Temple University (2000): Civil Rights/Black Power Movements; African American History; African American Intellectual History; Comparative Black Nationalism; Twentieth Century American Social History; Black Feminism; African Diaspora; Pan-Africanism; American Popular Culture; Black Urban History
Email: Peniel.Joseph@stonybrook.edu

Leslie H. Owens - Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of California, Riverside: Joint appointment with History; African-American social history; black family; civil rights movement; slavery.
Email: Leslie.Owens@stonybrook.edu

Olufemi Vaughan - Professor, D.Phil, University of Oxford (1989): Joint appointment with History; African politics and history; international relations. Recipient of the State University Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1997.
Email: Olufemi.Vaughan@stonybrook.edu

Carlos M. Vidal - Associate Professor, Ph.D., Fordham University: Joint appointment with School of Social Welfare; Hispanic families, culture, diversity; social movements, social policy.
Email: Carlos.Vidal@stonybrook.edu

Tracey Walters - Associate Professor, Ph.D. Howard University (1999): Joint appointment with the English Department; African American Literature; Caribbean Literature; African Literature; Pan-African Literature; Black British Literature and Culture; 20th Century American and British Literature; journalism.
Email: Tracey.Walters@stonybrook.edu

Emeritus Professor(s)

Amiri Baraka - Professor Emeritus: Playwriting; pan-Africanism; contemporary affairs; literature. In may 2001 Professor Amiri Baraka was inducted into the National Academy of Arts & Letters. Also, On November 18, 2001 he will receive the James Weldon Johnson Medal from the James Weldon Johnson Foundation and the Schomburg Center in recognition of his stellar achievements.
Email: N/A

"On behalf of the Governor of the State of New Jersey, the New Jersey Council for the Humanities has selected Professor Amiri Barakbe the Poet Laureate of the State of New Jersey for a two-year term beginning July 2002."

Adjunct Professor(s)

Prof. O. Akande
Prof. Al Jordan, Ed.D
Prof. Oyeronke Oyewumi, Ph.D.

Staff

Africana Studies Staff:
Phyllis Bartolomeo-Zenker, Assistant to the Chair
Location: SBS Building, Room S-249
Telephone No.: (631) 632-7470
AFS Fax No.: (631) 632-5703