People
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Lisa Aubrey, associate professor; Ph.D., M.A. from The Ohio State University, B.A. from Southern University, Baton Rouge, La. Areas of concentration include political science, comparative politics, African politics and development. |
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Arna Alexander Bontemps, interim head of faculty and associate professor; Ph.D. in history from the University of Illinois, Urbana, 1989. His primary research interests have focused on U.S. and African American history, including the history of slavery in America, with a special emphasis on the colonial and early national periods, and on African American cultural and intellectual history both during slavery and since emancipation. |
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Ronnie R.Cox, clinical associate professor; Ph.D. in business-education from University of Tennessee, 1982. |
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Abdullahi Gallab, assistant professor; Ph.D. from Brigham Young University and educated at the University of Khartoum and Boston University. As a Sudanese journalist, Professor Gallab has worked for Arabic newspapers in Sudan, Lebanon and England. He has been active in various journalists' associations. He has served previous Sudanese governments as information counselor in London, press advisor to the prime minister and director general of information. He is member of the board and current editor of Sudan Studies Association Newsletter. His major research areas include current Islamist movements in Africa and Middle East. |
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David Hinds, associate professor; Ph.D. in political science from Howard University, 1998. His concentration is the Caribbean. His major areas of teaching and research are governance and democracy, race and ethnicity and political protest. |
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Stanlie M. James, professor; Ph.D. from the Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver. She also holds a joint appointment on the faculty of the Women and Gender Studies program. Her areas of research interest include women’s international human rights and Black feminisms.
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Leanor Boulin Johnson, professor; M.S., Ph.D. in sociology from Purdue University. Her main research activities have been in Black family studies, cross-cultural sexuality and work-family stress. In addition, she is an associate editor of the Journal of Family Relations and has been consulting editor for the Journal of Sex Research and a reviewer for several journals. |
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Angelita D. Reyes, professor; Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of Iowa, 1986. She is a faculty affiliate in women's studies and languages and literataures and her research includes the study of the intersections of race, class, sexuality and gender theory in the context of Africa and diaspora. |
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Alyssa Robillard, assistant professor; Ph.D. in health education and health promotion from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2000. Her research interests focus on health issues affecting African Americans, particularly HIV/AIDS as it affects vulnerable populations like adolescents, women and inmates. |
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Aribidesi (Desi) Usman, associate professor; Ph.D. in anthropology from Arizona State University, 1998. His research is based in Africa, especially Nigeria. He is especially interested in issues concerning settlement evolution, sociopolitical and economic organization, the nature of power relations that existed among societies prior to 1900, and how local communities responded to, affected and became part of the regional and global historical development (e.g., state expansion, the Atlantic economy). |
