Faculty
Chair
![Prof. Faith L. Smith](images/smith-faith.jpg)
Expertise: African and African American literature, Anglophone Caribbean literature
Department Faculty
![Wangui Muigai](images/muigai-wangui.jpg)
Expertise: Race and health, history of medicine and science, African American cultural and intellectual history, history of childhood
![Professor Shoniqua Roach](images/roach-shoniqua.jpg)
Expertise: Black feminism, Black sexuality studies, performance theory, African American literary and visual cultures
![Amber Spry](images/spry-amber.jpg)
Expertise: Political behavior, identity, race and ethnic politics, political psychology, survey design methods
![Prof. Chad Williams](images/williams-chad.jpg)
Expertise: African American and modern United States history, African American military history, World War I, African American intellectual history.
Also serving as Undergraduate Advising Head. Please reach out with questions about the AAAS major or minor.
![Prof. Yacob-Haliso](images/ola-cropped.jpg)
Expertise: African women's and gender studies, women in conflict/postconflict, African refugees, international relations, African politics
Also serving as Study Abroad Advisor.
Affiliated Faculty
![Brandon Callender](images/callender-brandon.jpg)
Expertise: 19th- and 20th-century American literature, African American literature, film/media, gender and sexuality studies
![V Varun Chaudhry headshot](../images/chaudhry-v.jpg)
Expertise: Nonprofit Organizations and Foundations, Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Communities of Color, Queer of Color Critique
![Gregory Childs](https://www.brandeis.edu/history/images/faculty/childs-gregory.jpg)
Expertise: African diaspora studies, Latin American and Caribbean history, critical theories (race, social, legal), history of psychiatry, alterity and difference, philosophy of history and historiography, Atlantic world history, graffiti and hip hop studies
![Abigail Cooper headshot](images/cooper-abigail.jpg)
Expertise: U.S. history, slavery and emancipation, Civil War and reconstruction, American religion and culture, 19th-century United States, social history of marginalized peoples
![Dr. Emilie Diouf](images/diouf-emilie.jpg)
Expertise: Anglophone and Francophone African literature, Caribbean literature, critical theory, film/media, gender and sexuality studies, postcolonial theory and literature
![Anita Hill](images/hill-anita.jpg)
Expertise: Anti-discrimination law and policy on gender and race
![Prof. Brian Horton](../images/horton-brian.jpg)
Expertise:Queer anthropology; queer of color critique/queer theory; popular culture; Global South queer activism and social life; African diasporas in India; race; digital anthropology; virtual subjectivities; social media; South Asia.
![Daniel Kryder](images/kryder-daniel.jpg)
Expertise: American political development, qualitative methods, policing and social movements, history of race policy and politics
![Dr. Siri Suh](images/suh-siri.jpg)
Expertise: Sociology of health and illness, sociology of reproduction, critical studies of global health, science and technology studies (STS), research methods, sub-Saharan Africa
![Derron Wallace](images/wallace-derron.jpg)
Expertise: Sociology of education, comparative education, multicultural and multiethnic education, social inequality, critical theories of race, transnational migration, Caribbean diaspora studies