Department of Africana Studies
Master of Arts in Africana Studies
Faculty
The Department of Africana Studies provides academic excellence in teaching and research on African Diasporic life and culture as part of its mission at Stony Brook University. The M.A. Faculty of the Department of Africana Studies is composed of full-time AFS core faculty, AFS joint appointees, and Affiliate faculty from other departments.
Professors
Fouron, Georges, Ed.D., 1985, Columbia University: Social studies education; bilingual education; identity; Haiti; immigrants' experience in America; transnationalism.
Ferguson, David, Ph.D., 1980, University of California, Berkeley: Quantitative methods; computer applications (especially intelligent tutoring systems and decision support systems); mathematics, science, and engineering education.
Vaughan, Olufemi, D.Phil., 1989, University of Oxford: African politics and history; International relations. Recipient of the State University Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1997.
Associate Professors
Cash, Floris, Ph.D., 1986, Stony Brook University: African-American history; African-American women's studies; U.S. social and political history; Latin American history, slavery and women.
Frank, Barbara, Ph.D., 1988, Indiana University: African Mesoamerican, and African Diaspora art history.
Hurley, E. Anthony, Ph.D., 1992, Rutgers University: Francophone literature of the Caribbean and Africa; Caribbean poetics; Afro-Caribbean culture; Caribbean American literature.
Owens, Leslie, Ph.D., 1972, University of California, Riverside: African-American history; U.S. southern history.
Joseph, Peniel, Ph.D., 2000, Temple University: African-American history; civil rights black power movements; black cultural, social, political, and intellectual history, black feminism; African diaspora; global studies; race and urban history.
Walters, Tracey, Ph.D., 1999, Howard University: African American literature, Caribbean literature, African literature; Pan-African literature; Black British literature and culture; 20th Century American and British literature; journalism.
Assistant Professors
Brown-Glaude, Winnifred, Ph.D., 2003, Temple University: Race and Ethnicity in the Caribbean and Latin America; Gender and Development; Intersectionality; Women and Informal Economics; Race and Race Relations in the United States; sociology of the Body; Black Feminism; Social Research; Feminist Research Method.Affiliate Faculty
Arens, William, Ph.D., Dean, International Academic Programs (IAP), 1970, University of Virginia: Social Anthropology; conservation; Africa and the Mediterranean. Kaplan, Elizabeth A., Director of the Humanities Institute, Ph.D., 1970, Rutgers University: Literary and film Theory; feminist studies; modern American Literature; 19th-century American literature; postcolonial British literature, film. Kittay, Eva, Ph.D., 1978, City University of New York: Philosophy of language; philosophy and literature; feminism. Miller, Wilbur, Ph.D., 1973, Columbia University: U.S. social and political history; Civil War and Reconstruction; crime and criminal justice history. Simpson, Lorenzo, Ph.D., Yale University: Contemporary continental philosophy (hermeneutics and critical theory); philosophy of the social sciences; philosophy of science and technology; neopragmatism and post-analytic philosophy; philosophy and race. Tomes, Nancy, Ph.D., 1978, University of Pennsylvania: American social and cultural history; medicine, nursing, and psychiatry; women and the family.Affiliate Associate Professors
Cormier, Harvey, Ph.D., Harvard University: American philosophy; William James and pragmatism; philosophy and culture.
Cooper, Helen, Ph.D., 1982, Rutgers University: 19th century British Literature; 20th century Black British literature and film; Caribbean African, and Indian literatures; feminist theory; colonial discourse theory; cultural studies.
Lim, Shirley, Ph.D., 1998, University of California, Los Angeles: Asian-American women's cultural history.
Mar, Gary, Ph.D., 1985, University of California, Los Angeles: Logic; philosophy of mathematics; contemporary analytic philosophy; philosophy of religion.
Masten, April, 1999, Rutgers University: 19th century U.S. Cultural history;
Mendieta, Eduardo, Ph.D. 1978, Northwestern University: 19th century philosophy; Hegel; aesthetics and literary theory; philosophical psychology; philosophy of medicine.
Oyewumi, Oyeronke, Ph.D., 1993, University of California, Berkeley: Gender; race; family; cultures; knowledge; social inequalities; globalization.
Sellers, Christopher, Ph.D. 1992, Yale University: M.D. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1992; U.S. environmental, industrial, and cultural history; history of medicine and the body.
Scheckel, Susan, Ph.D., 1992, University of California, Berkeley: Early American Literature.
Sugarman, Jane, Ph.D. 1993, University of California, Los Angeles: Ethnomusicology; world music cultures, southeastern European music.
Affiliate Assistant Professors
Chronopoulis, Themis, Ph.D. 2004, Brown University: U.S. urban history; race, and ethnicity; popular culture; public policy; world cities.
Hildebrand,Elisabeth, Ph.D., 2003, Washington University, St. Louis: African Peoples and Cultures; Ancient African Civilizations; Ethnobotany; Ethnoarchaeology
Moehn, Frederick, Ph.D., 2001, New York University: Ethnomusicology; world music cultures, Latin American music.
Phillips, Rowan, Ph.D., 2003, Brown University: Poetry; American, African-American and Caribbean poetics.
