Africana Studies Faculty

Jeffner M. Allen, Professor

MA, University of California at San Diego; PhD, Duquesne University

 

University Award for Excellence in Graduate Mentoring, 2006-2007

Affiliated: Comparative Literature; Center for Korean Studies (CKS); Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program (WGSS)

Specialty: Feminist transcultural theory; postcolonial studies; diasporic literatures; lesbian studies; experimental and mixed genre writing

Moulay Ali Bouanani, Lecturer

BA, Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdallah University; MEd, Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco; MA, University of Warwick; PhD, University of Toledo

Affiliated: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CEMERS); Middle East and North Africa Studies (MENA); Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program (WGSS)

Specialty: North African and Middle Eastern studies; Islamic studies; languages; cultural studies; popular culture in the Arabic world

Anthony Ephirim-Donkor, Professor

BA, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga; MDiv, PhD, Emory University

Affiliated: Religious Studies

Specialty: Religion; developmental psychological theories

Utitofon Inyang, Assistant Professor

BA, University of Uyo, Nigeria; MA, University of Ilorin, Nigeria; PhD, University of California-Riverside

Specialty: African literature; Global Anglophone literatures; Global Black studies; environmental humanities; critical theory; digital humanities

Nathaniel Mathews, Assistant Professor

BA, Howard University; MA, Georgetown University; PhD, Northwestern University

Affiliated: Middle East and North Africa Studies (MENA)

Specialty: African history; East Africa and the Indian Ocean; Swahili language and culture

Samuel Elikem K. Nyamuame, Assistant Professor

BFA, University of Ghana; MA, Wesleyan University; PhD, University of Florida

Specialty: Ethnomusicology; musical cultures of Africa; dance traditions of Ghana; African dance; drumming

Nkiru Nzegwu, SUNY Distinguished Professor

BA, MA, University of Ife, Nigeria; PhD, University of Ottawa

Affiliated: Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program (WGSS)

Specailty: Feminist philosophy; African philosophy; African women studies; African and African Diaspora art and aesthetics

Titilayo Okoror, Associate Professor

BA, PhD, Pennsylvania State University

Affiliated: First-Year Research Immersion (FRI); Master of Public Health Program (MPH)

Specialty: Global public health, qualitative research, human sexuality, culture and health, communicable and non-communicable diseases

Michael O. West, Professor Emeritus

PhD, Harvard University