Nwando Achebe
Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion
Jack and Margaret Sweet Endowed Professor of History
Michigan State University
Laura Rosanne Adderley
Associate Professor of History
Director of African and African Diaspora Studies
Tulane University
Leslie Alexander
Associate Professor of African American and African Studies
University of Oregon
Jean Allman
(2008 - 2011)
Professor of History
Washington University in St. Louis
Lisa Aubrey
(2000 - 2005)
Associate Professor of Political Science
Ohio University
Maureen-Maisha Auma
Professor for Childhood and Difference
Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences
Boubacar Barry
(2000 - 2005)
Professor of History
Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar
Hilary Beckles
(2013 - 2015)
Principal and Prov-Vice-Chancellor
University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados
Herman Bennett
Professor in the Ph. D. Program in History
Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY)
Jerome Branch
(2007 - 2013)
Associate Professor of Latin American Studies
University of Pittsburgh
Abena Busia
(2000 - 2013)
Professor of Literature
Rutgers University
Kim D. Butler
(2013 - 2015)
Associate Professor of History
Department of Africana Studies
Rutgers University
Kia Caldwell
Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs and Diversity
Professor of African and African-American Studies
Dean’s Distinguished Professorial Scholar in Scholar in Arts & Sciences
Washington University in St Louis
Yolanda Covington-Ward
Chair, W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Yvonne Daniel
(2003 - 2009)
Professor of Dance and Afro-American Studies
Oscar De La Torre
Associate Professor of Africana and Latin American Studies
University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Carole Boyce Davies
(2007 - 2011)
Professor of Africana Studies and English
Cornell University
Howard Dodson
(2000 - 2009)
Director
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Jualynne Dodson
(2007 - 2013)
Professor of Sociology, African American and African Studies
Michigan State University
Joseph Dorsey
(2013 - 2015)
Professor of History, Comparative Literature, and Film Studies
Purdue University
Natanya Duncan
Director of Africana Studies and Associate Professor of History
Queens College City University of New York
Chouki El Hamel
(2013 - 2015)
Associate Professor of History
Arizona State University
David Barry Gaspar
(2000 - 2005)
Professor of History
Duke University
Flavio Gomes
Associate Professor of History
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Michael A. Gomez
(2000 - 2009)
Professor of History and Middle Eastern Studies
New York University
Farah Jasmine Griffin
(2005 - 2009)
Professor of English, Comparative Literature and African-American Studies; Director of the
Institute for Research in African-American Studies
Columbia University
Bryce Henson
Assistant Professor of Media, Culture, and Identity in the Department of Communication & Journalism
Texas A&M University
Robert Hill
(2000 - 2007)
Professor of History and Editor-in-Chief, The Marcus Garvey and UNIA Papers
UCLA
Bayo Holsey
(2011 - 2015)
Associate Professor of African & African American Studies
Duke University
Tanya Huelett
(2013 - 2015)
Senior Program Associate
Facing History and Ourselves
John Hunwick
(2000 - 2005)
Professor of History and Religion
Northwestern University
Jayne Ifekwunigwe
(2005 - 2011)
Visiting Associate Professor of African and African American Studies
Duke University
Francis Abiola Irele
Professor of African and African American Studies, Romance Languages and Literatures
Harvard University
Fatima Jackson
(2013 - 2015)
Director of the Institute of African American Research
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Stanlie James
(2013 - 2015)
Director of the African and African American Studies Program
Arizona State University
Rashauna Johnson
Associate Professor of History
University of Chicago
Joseph Jordan
Vice Provost for Academic Community and Engagement and Director of the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Laurie Lambert
(2013 - 2015)
Assistant Professor African American and African Studies
University of California, Davis
Evelyne Laurent-Perrault
Assistant Professor of History
University of California Santa Barbara
Natasha Lightfoot
(2013 - 2015)
Assistant Professor of History
Columbia University
Monica Lima
(2013 - 2015)
Professor of African History at the History Institute
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil
Patrick Manning
(2007 - 2013)
Andrew W. Mellon Professor of World History
University of Pittsburgh
Erik McDuffie
(2013 - 2015)
Associate Professor of History, African American Studies, African Studies
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Yuko Miki
(2013 - 2015)
Assistant Professor
History
Fordham University
Joseph C. Miller
(2000 - 2009)
T. Cary Johnson, Jr. Professor of History
University of Virginia
James Millette
(2000 - 2007)
Professor of History
Oberlin College
Paula Moreno
(2013 - 2015)
Former Minister of Culture
Government of the Republic of Colombia
Micere Githae Mugo
(2000 - 2007)
Writer and Professor of Literature
Department of African American Studies
Syracuse
Colin Palmer
(2000 - 2009)
Professor of History
Princeton University
Peggy Piesche
Consultant for Diversity, Intersectionality and Decoloniality (D.I.D.)
Federal Agency for Civic Education, Germany
Ato Quayson
Jean G. and Morris M. Doyle Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies
and Professor of English and of African and African American Studies
Stanford University
Michele Reid-Vazquez
Frederic Morrow Associate Professor of Latin America, Caribbean, and
Latinx Studies and Africana Studies
Bowdoin College
Walter C. Rucker
(2015 - 2021, 2026 - Present)
Goodrich C. White Professor of African American Studies and History
Emory University
Wania Sant'Anna
(2013 - 2015)
Consultant and Co-Coordinator
Commission on Diversity at Petrobas, Brazil
Kelvin A. Santiago-Valles
Professor of Sociology, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Africana Studies
SUNY-Binghamton
Verene A. Sheperd
Professor of History
University of the West Indies-Mona
Andreina Soto
Ph.D. Candidate in History
University of California at Santa Barbara
Elisee Soumonni
(2013 - 2015)
Professor of History and Archaeology
National University of Benin, Abomey-Calavi
Julio Cesar de Souza Tavares
(2000 - 2009)
Associate Professor of Communications
Federal Fluminense University, Brazil
Filomina Steady
(2007 - 2013)
Professor of Africana Studies
Wellesley College
Sterling Stuckey
(2000 - 2007)
Professor of History
University of California, Riverside
Ibrahim Sundiata
(2000 - 2005)
Professor of History and Department Chair
Howard University
Benjamin Talton
Associate Professor of History
Temple University
Rosalyn Terborg-Penn
(2000 - 2007)
Professor of History
Morgan State University
Deborah A. Thomas
(2013 - 2015)
Professor of Anthropology and Africana Studies
University of Pennsylvania
Antonio Tillis
University of Houston
Sheila Walker
(2000 - 2007)
Professor, Department of Anthropology & Annabel Irion Worsham Centennial Professor
College of Liberal Arts, University of Texas at Austin
Margaret Washington
(2000 - 2009)
Professor of History
Cornell University
Elisa Joy White
University of California, Davis
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