
Core Faculty
Mabel O. Wilson
Nancy and George Rupp Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation; Chair African American and African Diaspora Studies
Research Interest

Core Faculty
Jafari S. Allen
Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies, A&S African American and African Diaspora Studies; Director, Institute for Research in African American Studies
Research Interest

Research Fellows
Vanessa Agard-Jones
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Institute Research Fellow
Research Interest

Research Affiliates
Alice L. Brown
Research Affiliate, Visiting Research Fellow at the African Centre for the Study of the United States, University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa

Research Affiliates
Victoria J. Collis-Buthelezi
Research Affiliate, Associate Professor in English at the University of Johannesburg and Director of University of Johannesburg Centre for the Study of Race, Gender and Class

Core Faculty
Edwidge Danticat
Wun Tsun Tam Mellon Professor of the Humanities

Adjuncts
C. Daniel Dawson
Adjunct Professor
Research Interest

Core Faculty
Nyle E. Fort
Assistant Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies
Research Interest

Research Fellows
Dr. Racquel Gates
Associate Professor of Film in the Faculty of the Arts
Research Interest

Core Faculty
Farah Jasmine Griffin
William B. Ransford Professor of English and Comparative Literature and African American Studies. Professor of African American Studies and African Diaspora Studies. Director of Undergraduate Studies
Research Interest

Core Faculty
Frank A. Guridy
Professor of History and Dr. Kenneth and Kareitha Forde Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies
Research Interest

Research Fellows
Fredrick Cornelius Harris
Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science; Dean of Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Research Interest

Research Fellows
Dr. Carl L. Hart
Mamie Phipps Clark Professor of Psychology
Research Interest

Research Fellows
Dr. Obery M. Hendricks
Professor Emeritus, New York Theological Seminary and Institute for Research in African American Studies, Visiting Scholar
Research Interest

Adjuncts
Dr. Vivaldi Jean-Marie
Adjunct Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies
Research Interest

Core Faculty
Kellie E. Jones
Hans Hofmann Professor of Modern Art, Department of Art History and Archaeology.
Research Interest

Research Affiliates
Gilbert M. Khadiagala
Research Affiliate, African American African Diaspora Studies, Jan Smuts Professor of International Relations and Director of the African Centre for the Study of the United States, African Centre at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

Research Fellows
David J. Knight
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology
Research Interest

Research Fellows
Colin W. Leach
Professor Psychology and Africana Studies, Barnard College Graduate Faculty in Psychology, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Institute Research Fellow
Research Interest

Research Fellows
Natasha J. Lightfoot
Associate Professor of History, Department of History
Research Interest

Research Affiliates
Dr. David Maurrasse
Research Affiliate, African American African Diaspora Studies, Adjunct Associate Professor and Adjunct Research Scholar, Columbia University
Staff
Shawn D. Mendoza
Director of Academic Administration and Finance, African American and African Diaspora Studies Department; Assistant Director, Institute for Research in African American Studies

Research Fellows
Mignon R. Moore
Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Sociology and Special Advisor to the Office of the President, Barnard College
Research Interest

Staff
Tumelo Mosaka
Mellon Project Director and Curator, African American and African Diaspora Studies
Core Faculty
Rachel G. Newman
Assistant Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies, A&S African American and African Diaspora Studies

Research Fellows
Robert G. O'Meally
Zora Neale Hurston Professor of English and Comparative Literature, English and Comparative Literature
Staff
Tanya Puig
Program Manager, A&S African American and African Diaspora Studies

Core Faculty
Samuel K. Roberts
Associate Professor of History and of Sociomedical Sciences, Department of History and African American and African Diaspora Studies Department.
Research Interest

Core Faculty
Josef Sorett
Professor of Religion and African American and African Diaspora Studies
Research Interest

Research Fellows
Kimberly Springer
Curator for the Oral History Archives at Columbia University’s Rare Book and Manuscript Library Columbia University

Core Faculty
Brandi T. Summers
Associate Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies, A&S African American and African Diaspora Studies. Director of Graduate Studies

Staff
Sharon N. Harris
Administrative Assistant, African American and African Diaspora Studies Department