Past Board Members

Nwando Achebe
Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Jack and Margaret Sweet Endowed Professor, 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 and the 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

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 an 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
Institute 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
Former Reader in Anthropology
University of East London (U.K.)

Francis Abiola Irele
Professor of African and African American Studies, Romance Languages and Literatures
Harvard University

Fatima Jackson
(2013 - 2015)
Director
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
History Department
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

Walter C. Rucker
(2015 - 2021)
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, Department 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

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