Past Humphrey Fellows Program
Past Postdoctoral Fellows
2024-25 Richards Center/Africana Research Center Postdoctoral Scholar in African American History
2023 - 24 Postdoctoral Scholar, Africana Research Center and Richards Civil War Era Center
2022 - 24 Postdoctoral Scholar, Africana Research Center
2022 - 24 Postdoctoral Scholar, Africana Research Center
2022 - 23 Postdoctoral Scholar, Africana Research Center, Richards Civil War Era Center
2020 - 22 Post-Doctoral Scholar, Africana Research Center, Richards Civil War Era Center
2020 - 22 Postdoctoral Scholar, Africana Research Center
2020 - 22 Post-Doctoral Scholar, Africana Research Center
Past Dissertation Fellows
2022 - 23 Dissertation Fellows, Africana Research Center, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Comparative Literature
Zinhle ka'Nobuhlaluse, Dual Title Ph.D. Candidate in Philosophy and Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies
2021 - 22 Dissertation Fellows, Dual-title Ph.D. candidate in French and Francophone Studies, and African Studies
Past Directors
Interim Director, 2023-24
Professor of African Studies and Applied Linguistics
Director, 2021 - 23
Associate Professor of Philosophy and African American Studies
Founding Director of the Collegium of Black Women Philosophers
Interim Director, 2020-21
Professor of Sociology, Demography, and African Studies Director, Undergraduate Program in Sociology
Director, 2018-20
Associate Professor of History at Penn State
Interim Co-Director, 2016-2017
Associate Professor Emeritus, Penn State
Interim Co-Director, 2016-17
Department Head, African American Studies, Associate Professor of African American Studies and English at Penn State
Director, 2008-16
Professor Emeritus, Associate Professor of African American Studies and Women’s Studies at Penn State
Director, 2006-08
Faculty Member, Southern Illinois University
Director, 2003-06
Associate Professor of Education at Penn State
Director, 2002-03
Former Associate Professor of the Liberal Arts at Penn State
Founding Director, 2001-02
Ambassador to Trinindad-Tobago