African and African American
Studies Faculty Information
Those faculty and administrators who serve on the Advisory Committee are
listed below, although there are several faculty from various
departments who teach courses in the program.
Lena M. Ampadu, Associate Professor, English
Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park
Nineteenth- Century African American rhetorical practices; oral
traditions in African and African American women’s writings; African
folkloric retentions in African American literature
Leonie Brooks, Associate Professor, Psychology
Ph.D., Virginia Commonwealth
University
Acculturation and adjustments of immigrants of color; college student
adjustment; multicultural counseling competencies; ethnic minority
mental health
Elizabeth J. Clifford,
Associate Professor, Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice
Ph.D., Northwestern
University
Immigration—family reunification immigration; immigrant organizing;
racial ideology and immigration policy
Matthew S. Durington,
Assistant Professor, Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal Justice
Ph.D., Temple University
U.S. urban and suburban Anthropology; South African culture and suburban
development; indigenous land rights in the Kalahari: participatory and
applied ethnographic film; historical U.S black cinema
Art King, Assistant
Vice-President, Office of Diversity
M.Ed., Georgia Southern
University
Conflict analysis and resolution; campus diversity initiatives; teaching
and learning in a diverse society; racial and identity development
Wayne McKim, Professor,
Geography
Ph.D., Northwestern
University
Historical geography of East Africa; Economic development; extensive
travel in East and Southern Africa (total of 8 years in Africa)
John Murungi, Professor, Philosophy
Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State
University
J.D., The University of Maryland Law School
African philosophy of law; African American philosophy
Patricia Romero, Professor,
African History
Ph.D., The Ohio State
University
West African and East African history; Southern African and East African
women; colonialism and literature
Esther Wangari, Associate
Professor, Women’s Studies
Ph.D.,The New School for
Social Research
Gender development and the environment; political economics; diversity
of women in graduate school; corporate responsibility for and impact of
gold mining on the environment in Tanzania
Evangeline Wheeler, Associate
Professor, Psychology
Ph.D., University of
California, Berkeley,
Psychology of Black women; cognition and health in the Black community
Donn Worgs, Associate
Professor, Political Science
Ph.D., University of
Maryland, College Park
Education politics; community development; racial politics; urban
politics
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