Directory
Program Head
Cheryl Sterling
- Program Head, African Studies
Phone: (814) 865-8425
Email: czs796@psu.edu
Core Faculty
Clemente Abrokwaa
- Associate Teaching Professor of African Studies
Phone: (814) 865-5257
Email: cka1@psu.edu
Gabeba Baderoon
- Associate Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and African Studies
Phone: (814) 865-2372
Email: gxb26@psu.edu
Abigail Celis
- Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies and African Studies
Email: aqc5966@psu.edu
Neelima Jeychandran
- Visiting Assistant Professor of African Studies and Asian Studies
Email: nuj47@psu.edu
Busi Makoni
- Associate Teaching Professor
Phone: (814) 867-3553
Email: sud17@psu.edu
Sinfree Makoni
- Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics and African Studies
Phone: (814) 863-2431
Email: sbm12@psu.edu
Richard Mbih
- Assistant Teaching Professor of African Studies
Phone: (814) 865-9496
Email: ram6096@psu.edu
Kidane Mengisteab
- Professor of African Studies and Political Science
Phone: (814) 863-5815
Email: kim3@psu.edu
Abderrahim Ouarghidi
- Assistant Teaching Professor of African Studies and Anthropology
Email: auo45@psu.edu
Bronwen Powell
- Assistant Professor of Geography, African Studies, and Anthropology
Phone: (814) 865-1187
Email: bxp15@psu.edu
Edwin Sabuhoro
- Assistant Professor of Recreation, Park, and Tourism Management and African Studies
Email: eps5479@psu.edu
Michelle Sikes
- Assistant Professor of Kinesiology, African Studies, and History
Phone: (814) 865-8697
Email: mxs1600@psu.edu
Olusegun Soetan
- Assistant Teaching Professor of African Studies
Email: oqs5131@psu.edu
Christopher Tounsel
- Assistant Professor of History and African Studies
- Catherine Shultz Rein Early Career Professor
Phone: (814) 865-1367
Email: cut70@psu.edu
Affiliate Faculty
Ebony Coletu
- Assistant Professor of African American Studies, English, and African Studies
Phone: (814) 863-2343
Email: euc179@psu.edu
Jose Cossa
- Associate Professor of Lifelong Learning and Adult Education and African Studies
Email: jxc6421@psu.edu
Alicia Decker
- Associate Professor of Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies and African Studies
Phone: (814) 867-3561
Email: acdecker@psu.edu
William Dewey
- Associate Professor of Art History
Email: wjd14@psu.edu
Francis Dodoo
- Liberal Arts Professor of Sociology, Demography, and African Studies
Phone: (814) 863-2240
Email: duf2@psu.edu
Kristina G. Douglass
- Joyce and Doug Sherwin Early Career Professor in the Rock Ethics Institute and Assistant Professor of Anthropology and African Studies
Phone: (814) 865-2937
Email: kdouglass@psu.edu
J. Marlena Edwards
- Assistant Professor of African American Studies and History
Phone: (814) 865-8719
Email: jue328@psu.edu
Johannes Fedderke
- Professor of International Affairs and African Studies
Phone: (814) 867-2793
Email: jwf15@psu.edu
Larry Gorenflo
- PROFESSOR, ELEANOR R. STUCKEMAN CHAIR IN DESIGN
Phone: (814) 863-5337
Email: lgorenflo@psu.edu
Ephraim Govere
- Director, Soil Research Cluster Lab and Lecturer in African Studies
Phone: (814) 865-1143
Email: emg900@psu.edu
Michael Jacobson
- Professor of Forest Resources
- Chair of Forest Ecosystem Management Program
- Extension Specialist
Phone: (814) 865-3994
Email: mgj2@psu.edu
Gregory Jenkins
- Professor of Meteorology
Phone: (814) 865-0479
Email: gsj1@psu.edu
RoseMary Jolly
- Professor, Weiss Chair of the Humanities in Literature and Human Rights
Phone: (814) 865-1188
Email: rjj14@psu.edu
Fabienne Kanor
- Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies
Phone: (814) 865-1492
Email: quk165@psu.edu
Maha Marouan
- Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and African Studies
Phone: (814) 867-4269
Email: mzm24@psu.edu
Mare Sarr
- Associate Professor of International Affairs and African Studies
Phone: (814) 867-2979
Email: mxs2566@psu.edu
Yael Warshel
- Assistant Professor of Telecommunications and African Studies
Phone: (814) 865-3717
Email: yzw5370@psu.edu
Nicole Sheree Webster
- Associate Professor of Youth and International Development
- Director of the 2iE-Penn State Centre for Collaborative Engagement in Burkina Faso, West Africa
Email: nsw10@psu.edu
Michael West
- Professor of African American Studies, History, and African Studies
Phone: (814) 865-6873
Email: mow5397@psu.edu
Graduate Students
Tembi Charles
- Dual PhD candidate in Comparative Literature and African Studies
Email: txc372@psu.edu
Michael Derek Gideon
- Dual PhD candidate in Comparative Literature and African Studies
Email: mdg28@psu.edu
Vieux Toure
- Dual PhD candidate in French and Francophone Studies and African Studies
Email: vzt5067@psu.edu
Recent Graduates
Alexander Fyfe
- Dual PhD candidate in Comparative Literature and African Studies
Email: acf198@psu.edu
Staff
Jamie Whitehead
- Undergraduate and Graduate Staff Assistant
Phone: (814) 865-5406
Email: jle1@psu.edu