Departments & Programs

African American & African Diaspora Studies

Faculty
Chair 
  • Valerie Grim
Professors
  • Carolyn Calloway-Thomas
  • Valerie Grim
  • Iris Rosa
  • John H. Stanfield II
Associate Professors
  • Frederick L. McElroy
  • Maisha Wester
  • Jakobi Williams
Assistant Professor
  • Tyron Cooper
  • Phoebe Wolfskill
Professor of Practice
  • Raymond Wise
Lecturers
  • Maria Hamilton-Abegunde
  • Candis Smith
Adjunct Professors 
  • Akin Adesokan (Comparative Literature)
  • Kevin Brown (Maurer School of Law)
  • Mellonee Burnim (Folklore and Ethnomusicology)
  • Claude Clegg (History)
  • Dionne Danns (School of Education)
  • Luis E. Fuentes-Rohwer (Maurer School of Law)
  • D. Ted Hall (School of Education)
  • Kandace Hinton (College of Education—Indiana State University)
  • Mary Howard-Hamilton (College of Education—Indiana State University)
  • Robin Hughes (School of Education—IUPUI)
  • Pamela B. Jackson (Sociology)
  • Stephanie Li (English)
  • Monroe Little (African American Studies—IUPUI)
  • Nyama McCarthy-Brown (Theatre, Drama, and Contemporary Dance)
  • Michael McGerr (History)
  • Najjaf Modibo (African American Studies, Labor Studies—IUPUI)
  • Frank Motley (Maurer School of Law)
  • Rasul Aaron Mowatt (School of Public Health)
  • Walton Muyumba (English)
  • Amrita Myers (History)
  • John Nieto-Phillips (History, Latino Studies)
  • Samuel Obeng (Linguistics)
  • Fernando Orejuela (Folklore and Ethnomusicology)
  • Akwasi Owusu Bempah (Criminal Justice)
  • Stephanie Power-Carter (School of Education)
  • Kenneth Lee Roberson (Theatre, Drama, and Contemporary Dance)
  • Fabio Rojas (Sociology)
  • Gary Sailes (School of Public Health)
  • Amos Sawyer (Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis)
  • Marvin D. Sterling (Anthropology)
  • Charles E. Sykes (African American Arts Institute)
  • Jacinda Townsend (English)
  • Dennis Williams Jr. (African American Arts Institute)
  • Raymond Wise (African American Arts Institute)
Professors Emeriti
  • Akwasi B. Assensoh
  • David N. Baker (Jacobs School of Music)
  • Winona L. Fletcher (Theatre, Drama, and Contemporary Dance)
  • Phyllis Klotman
  • Portia Maultsby (Folklore and Ethnomusicology)
  • Audrey McCluskey
  • John McCluskey
  • James E. Mumford
  • William Wiggins, Jr.
  • Vernon J. Williams, Jr.
Director of Graduate Studies 
  • Carolyn Calloway-Thomas (812) 855-3875.
Director of Undergraduate Studies 
  • Iris Rosa, (812) 855-3875
Academic Advising 
  • mnuznov [at] indiana [dot] edu (Mary Nuznov), Memorial E. M25, 855-6270