Directory
Program Head
Director of African Studies
Liberal Arts Professor of African Studies and Applied Linguistics
(814) 863-2431
Area(s) of Specialization: Language policy and planning, Security studies, Language and health, Southern epistemologies and ontologies
Core Faculty
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Associate Teaching Professor of African Studies
(814) 865-5257
Area(s) of Specialization: Science and technology in Africa, Education in Africa, Globalization, African politics, Multiculturalism, Economic development in Africa, Peace and conflict studies
Associate Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, African Studies and Comparative Literature
Area(s) of Specialization: Representations of Islam in Africa, African feminism, South African literature, Race and Sexuality, Slavery in South Africa, Food studies, Visual art in South Africa
Assistant Professor of African Studies and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Area(s) of Specialization: Critical Whiteness Studies; Critical Masculinity Studies; Discourse Analysis; South Africa; Environmentalism
Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies and African Studies
Area(s) of Specialization: 20th- and 21st-century French and Francophone literatures from Africa and the Mashreq; Sufi thought and poetics in literatures in French and Arabic; Early Islamic historiography; Race and identity in France; French colonial discourse and legacy
Associate Professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies, African Studies, and African American Studies
Melvin and Rosalind Jacobs Endowed Fellow in the Humanities
Assistant Teaching Professor of African Studies
Area(s) of Specialization: Democracy, electoral violence, and the politicalization of racial, ethnic, religious, regional, and socio-economic identities in contestations over political power and access to economic resources such as land, natural gas, and commercial opportunities
Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow in African Studies
Area(s) of Specialization: Decoloniality, Language-in-Education policies, Discourses of Gender, Religion, Politics and governance, Refugees, and Ecolinguistics.
Associate Teaching Professor of African Studies and Applied Linguistics
(814) 867-3553
Area(s) of Specialization: Language socialization, Language ideology, Language and law, Language policy and planning, Discourse analysis, Multimodal translanguaging
Assistant Teaching Professor of African Studies
Coordinator of African Studies Brown Bag Series, 2017-2021
Area(s) of Specialization: Agro-pastoral sustainability, environmental change and society, natural resource conflicts, political ecology, Sub-Saharan Africa, and international development
Professor of African Studies and Political Science
Director of Graduate Studies
(814) 863-5815
Area(s) of Specialization: Security in the Horn of Africa, Extractive industries and commercial farming in Africa
Assistant Teaching Professor of African Studies and Anthropology
Area(s) of Specialization: Development and Sustainability, Community-Based Natural Resources and Management, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Agricultural and Pastoral Systems, Participatory Methods
Associate Professor of Geography, African Studies, and Anthropology
(814) 865-1187
Area(s) of Specialization: Biodiversity and Nutrition, Wild and forest foods, Dietary patterns and dietary diversity, Traditional food systems, Applied research for improved policy and practice
Assistant Professor of Recreation, Park, and Tourism Management and African Studies
Ann Atherton Hertzler Early Career Professor in Global Health
Area(s) of Specialization: Sustainability, Well-Being, and Livelihoods, Ecotourism and Community Based Tourism, Integrated Conservation and Development, Outdoor Recreation and Nature Based-Tourism, Human-Wildlife Conflicts and Management, Parks, and Protected Area Planning and Management in East Africa
Associate Professor of Kinesiology, African Studies, and History
(814) 865-8697
Area(s) of Specialization: African sport history, Anti-apartheid and anti-colonial transnational activism, Social and political histories of South Africa and Kenya
Associate Professor of English and African Studies
(814) 865-8425
Area(s) of Specialization: African Literature, African Diaspora Literature, Post-Colonial Theory, Aesthetics, Transnational Studies, Gender, Social and Cultural Movements in Brazil
Assistant Teaching Professor of African Studies
Area(s) of Specialization: African urbanities and urbanisms, Migrations and social mobility, Social networks, Collective action, Gender, and Sexuality
Emeritus Faculty
Associate Teaching Professor Emeritus
Area(s) of Specialization: African, African Diaspora, and Oceanic art
Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Demography and African Studies
(814) 206-7651
Professor Emerita of Art, Art Education, Integrative Arts, and African Studies
Area(s) of Specialization: African and African American Art History and the Development and Assessment of Arts and Integrative Arts Curricula, and Community Based Arts Programs. Art Studio specializations include: Drawing, Painting, Mixed Media, Fashion Design, and Jewelry.
Affiliate Faculty
Professor of Spanish and African Studies
Area(s) of Specialization: 20th- and 21st-century Contemporary Spanish Fiction and Culture; Afro-Hispanic Literature and Cultures.
Director of the Center for Social Change and Belonging
Affiliate Associate Teaching Professor of African Studies and Philosophy
Area(s) of Specialization: Black consciousness, African and Africana philosophy, Race/Ethnicity, Colonization and Decolonization, Post-colonial Theory and Settler Colonialism, Pan-Africanism, Intersectionality
Associate Professor of Lifelong Learning and Adult Education and African Studies
Area(s) of Specialization: Comparative and International Education, Adult, online and distance education, Power dynamics in negotiation, uBuntu and Cosmo-uBuntu as (exterior to modernity) theorizing, Global justice and de-colonializing, de-bordering, de-peripherizing, and de-centering the world, African renaissance, and, International development
Associate Professor of Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies, African Studies, and History
(814) 867-3561
Area(s) of Specialization: Gender and militarism, War and political violence, Ugandan postcolonial history, African women’s history, Global feminisms
Assistant Professor of History, African American Studies, and African Studies
(814) 865-8719
Area(s) of Specialization: African diaspora, Migration and Immigration, Race and Ethnicity
Professor of International Affairs and African Studies
(814) 867-2793
Area(s) of Specialization: Determinants of economic growth, Institutions and economic growth, Deep roots of economic development, Development economics, The economics of art, Formal methods of modelling social science relationships
PROFESSOR, ELEANOR R. STUCKEMAN CHAIR IN DESIGN
Professor of Landscape Architecture, Geography, African Studies, and Anthropology
(814) 863-5337
Area(s) of Specialization: Biodiversity Conservation, Cultural Ecology, East Africa, Latin America, Southeast Asia
Professor of Forest Resources
Chair of Forest Ecosystem Management Program
Extension Specialist
(814) 865-3994
Area(s) of Specialization: Water energy food nexus, Bioenergy, Sustainable forestry, Forest economics, finance, policy and taxes, Agroforestry and non timber forest products, Gas taxation, forest certification and incentive programs, Private forestry, International forestry, Liberi
Professor of Meteorology
(814) 865-0479
Area(s) of Specialization: Atmospheric/Air chemistry, Climate, Tropical meteorology
Professor, Weiss Chair of the Humanities in Literature and Human Rights
(814) 865-1188
Area(s) of Specialization: Sub-Saharan African literatures, narratives of violence and reconciliation, the interface between the critical medical humanities and sub-Saharan African health frameworks, the integration of gender-based violence prevention and treatment into HIV/AIDS pr
Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies
(814) 865-1492
Area(s) of Specialization: Visual Arts and cinema, Literature, Francophone African Theater and Art performance, Race, Migration / Immigration in French West Indies and Sub-Saharan Africa, Slave-Trade and its Memories in Arts, African Diaspora, Trauma Studies
Postdoctoral Scholar in College of Arts & Architecture, with courtesy affiliations in African Studies, and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Area(s) of Specialization: Equity, inclusion and belonging, African women, gender and diaspora studies, International and human rights law
Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and African Studies
(814) 867-4269
Area(s) of Specialization: Comparative Literature, Literary Criticism, African Diaspora Studies, Transnational Feminism, African Feminism, Comparative Racialization, Religious Studies, Immigration Studies, African and African Diaspora Women’s Literature in English, French, Arabic, and Spanish, Religions of Africa and the African Diaspora, Islamic Africa, Race and the Trans-Saharan Slave Trade, Immigration, Race, Gender, and Belonging
Head, Department of Applied Linguistics
Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Applied Linguistics, Jewish Studies, African Studies, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Assistant Teaching Professor of Linguistics and African Studies
(814) 865-4252
Area(s) of Specialization: Fieldwork-based language analysis
African Languages
Formal phonology and formal semantics
Associate Professor of International Affairs and African Studies
(814) 867-2979
Area(s) of Specialization: Environmental and Natural Resource Economics (Climate Change and Biodiversity Conservation), Institutional Change and Development in Africa, Political Economy with a focus on resource-rich countries
Associate Professor of Higher Education and African Studies
Director, Center for the Study of Higher Education
Area(s) of Specialization: Black Diaspora Epistemic Justice, Global Legal Justice, Critical Race Black Feminism, Intersectionality
Professor of Recreation, Park and Tourism Management
Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the College of Health and Human Development
Area(s) of Specialization: Youth development, civic enhancement and international community development
Professor of African American Studies, History, and African Studies
(814) 865-6873
Area(s) of Specialization: African American and African Diaspora History and Culture
Graduate Students
Ph.D. candidate in Education Policy Studies, minor in African Studies
Ph.D. candidate in Art Education, minor in African Studies
Dual Title Ph.D. Candidate in Applied Linguistics and African Studies
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Bellisario College of Communications
Ph.D. candidate in Education Policy Studies, minor in African Studies
Dual Ph.D. candidate in French and Francophone Studies and African Studies
Ph.D. candidate in Education Policy Studies, minor in African Studies
Dual Ph.D. candidate in French and Francophone Studies and African Studies
Ph.D. candidate in Communication Arts and Sciences, minor in African Studies
Ph.D candidate in Architectural Engineering, minor in African Studies
M.A. candidate in International Affairs, minor in African Studies
Ph.D. candidate in Curriculum and Instruction, minor in African Studies
Graduate student in Hospitality Management, minor in African Studies
Ph.D candidate in Architectural Engineering, Construction, minor in African Studies
Recent Graduates
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