Core & Affiliate Faculty

Department of African American and African Studies

Core Faculty

Name	Title	Email
Belinda Edmondson	Professor & Acting Department Chair	edmondsn@newark.rutgers.edu
Wendell Holbrook	Associate Professor	wholbrok@rutgers.edu
Lacey Hunter	Part-Time Lecturer	lahunter@scarletmail.rutgers.edu
James Jones	Assistant Professor	james.r.jones@rutgers.edu
John Keene	Associate Professor & Department Chair	john.keene@rutgers.edu
Wendell Marsh	Assistant Professor	wm276@rutgers.edu
Hyacinth Miller	Instructor	hyacinth.miller@rutgers.edu
Charles Payne	Distinguished Professor and Cornwall Center Director	charles.payne@rutgers.edu
Salamishah Tillet	Professor, Director of the New Arts Social Justice Initiative, and Associate Director of the Price Institute	st823@rutgers.edu
Melissa Valle	Assistant Professor	melissa.valle@rutgers.edu

Affiliated Faculty

Name	Title	Email
Sahar Aziz	Professor of Law; Chancellor's Social Justice Scholar; Director, Center for Security, Race and Rights	sahar.aziz@law.rutgers.edu
Patricia Akhimie	Assistant Professor, Department of English	patricia.akhimie@rutgers.edu
Frances Bartkowski	Professor and Chairperson, Department of English	franb@newark.rutgers.edu
Sterling L. Bland	Associate Professor, Department of English	slbland@newark.rutgers.edu
Rod Brunson	Dean and Professor	rod.brunson@rutgers.edu
Sherri-Ann Butterfield	Executive Vice Chancellor and Associate Professor of Sociology	sbutter@newark.rutgers.edu
Johnna Christian	Associate Professor	johnnac@scj.rutgers.edu
Melissa L. Cooper	Assistant Professor, Department of History	melissa.cooper@rutgers.edu
Jason Cortés	Associate Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies; Director, Graduate Program in American Studies	jasoncor@rutgers.edu
Jon Cowans	Associate Professor, Department of History	jonco58@aol.com
Timothy Eatman	Dean, Honors Living - Learning Community; Associate Professor of Urban Education	tim.eatman@rutgers.edu
Kyle Farmbry	Associate Professor of Public Affairs and Administration; Dean, Graduate School-Newark	kfarmbry@newark.rutgers.edu
Ruth Feldstein	Professor, Department of History, American Studies and Women's and Gender Studies	feldst@newark.rutgers.edu
R. Brian Ferguson	Department of Sociology and Anthropology	bfergusn@rutgers.edu
Barbara Foley	Professor II, Department of English	bfoley@rutgers.edu
James Goodman	Distinguished Professor, Department of History, MFA Faculty	goodmanj@rutgers.edu
Taja-Nia Y. Henderson	Associate Professor of Law	thenderson@kinoy.rutgers.edu
Suzanne A. Kim	Professor of Law and Judge Denny Chin Scholar	skim@kinoy.rutgers.edu
Mark Krasovic	Associate Professor, Department of History; Associate Director of the Clement A. Price Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience	krasovic@rutgers.edu
Lindsey McDougle	Assistant Professor, Rutgers SPAA	lindsey.mcdougle@rutgers.edu
David McLean	Instructor, Department of Philosophy	demcclean@hotmail.com
Jody Miller	Distinguished Professor and Faculty Chair	jody.miller@rutgers.edu
Sean T. Mitchell	Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology	seantm@rutgers.edu
Lyra Monteiro	Assistant Professor, Department of History	lyra.monteiro@rutgers.edu
Karen Oliver	Adjunct Faculty, Department of English	kmoliver@rutgers.edu
Brandon Paradise	Associate Professor of Law	bparadise@kinoy.rutgers.edu
Twila Perry	Professor of Law and Judge Alexander P. Waugh, Sr. Scholar	tperry@kinoy.rutgers.edu
Phylis J. Peterman	Department Chair & Associate Professor, Department of Social Work	ppetermn@newark.rutgers.edu
Arthur B. Powell	Department Chair & Professor, Department of Urban Education	powellab@newark.rutgers.edu
Lyneir Richardson	Instructor in Entrepreneurship and Executive Director of The Center for Urban Entrepreneurship and Economic Development (CUEED)	lrichardson@business.rutgers.edu
Jeffrey Robinson	Associate Professor, Management & Global Business	jrobinson@business.rutgers.edu
Beryl Satter	Professor, Department of History, Graduate Program in American Studies, Program in Women's and Gender Studies	satter@newark.rutgers.edu
Mercer Sullivan	Associate Professor	mercer.sullivan@rutgers.edu
Habtamu Tegegne	Assistant Professor of History	ht254@rutgers.edu
David Dante Troutt	Professor of Law and Justice John J. Francis Scholar	dtroutt@kinoy.rutgers.edu
Jerome Williams	Distinguished Professor and Prudential Chair in Business, Provost of RU-N Campus and Executive Vice Chancellor of RBS	jeromew@business.rutgers.edu