Directory

Directory

Director

Director, Africana Research Center
Associate Professor of English

Staff

Administrative Assistant

Advisory Board

Professor of Hospitality Management
Associate Professor of Hospitality Finance at School of Hospitality Management
Director of Food Decisions Research Laboratory
Editor of ICHRIE Penn State Research Reports
Director of Research at I-CHRIE
Professor of Law and International Affairs, Rock Ethics Institute
Senior Scientist, Rock Ethics Institute

Humphrey Fellows Program

2024 - 25 Humphrey Fellows Program

Current Postdoctoral Fellows

2024-25 Richards Center/Africana Research Center Postdoctoral Scholar in African American History
2024 - 25 Postdoctoral Scholar, Africana Research Center
2024 - 25 Postdoctoral Scholar, Africana Research Center

2020-2023 Postdoctoral Fellows

2020 - 22 Postdoctoral Scholar, Africana Research Center
2020 - 22 Post-Doctoral Scholar, Africana Research Center, Richards Civil War Era Center
2022 - 24 Postdoctoral Scholar, Africana Research Center
2022 - 24 Postdoctoral Scholar, Africana Research Center
2020 - 22 Post-Doctoral Scholar, Africana Research Center
2023 - 24 Postdoctoral Scholar, Africana Research Center and Richards Civil War Era Center

2019-2020 Postdoctoral Fellows

Dissertation Fellows

2022 - 23 Dissertation Fellows, Africana Research Center, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Comparative Literature
2024- 25 Dissertation Fellows, Africana Research Center
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