Directory
Director
Director, Africana Research Center
Associate Professor of English
Staff
Advisory Board
Edward Friedman and Stuart Mann Professor of Hospitality Management
Director, Food Decisions Research Laboratory
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
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
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