
Core Faculty
Farah Jasmine Griffin
William B. Ransford Professor of English and Comparative Literature and African American Studies; Chair, African American and African Diaspora Studies Department
Research Interest

Core Faculty
Kevin A. Fellezs
Associate Professor of Music, Department of Music; Director of Undergraduate Studies, African American and African Diaspora Studies Department
Research Interest

Core Faculty
Robert J. Gooding-Williams
M. Moran Weston/Black Alumni Council Professor of African American Studies, Department of Philosophy; Director of Graduate Studies, African American and African Diaspora Studies Department
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Core Faculty
Steven Gregory
Dr. Kenneth and Kareitha Forde Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology
Research Interest

Core Faculty
Frank A. Guridy
Associate Professor of History, Department of History
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Core Faculty
Samuel K. Roberts
Associate Professor of History and of Sociomedical Sciences, Department of History
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Core Faculty
Josef Sorett
Associate Professor of Religion, Department of Religion
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Core Faculty
Mabel O. Wilson
Nancy and George Rupp Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation; Associate 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 Fellows
Fredrick Cornelius Harris
Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science; Dean of Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
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Research Fellows
Carl L. Hart
Dirk Ziff Professor of Psychology (in Psychiatry); Chair, Department of Psychology
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Research Fellows
Obery M. Hendricks
Lecturer in Religion, Department of Religion
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Research Fellows
Kellie E. Jones
Professor of Art History and Archaeology, Department of Art History and Archaeology
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Research Fellows
Colin W. Leach
Professor- Psychology & Africana Studies; Barnard College Graduate Faculty in Psychology, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences Institute Research Fellow
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Research Fellows
Natasha J. Lightfoot
Associate Professor of History, Department of History
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Research Fellows
Mignon R. Moore
Associate Professor of Sociology, Barnard College
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Research Fellows
David A. Scott
Ruth and William Lubic Professor of Anthropology; Chair, Department of Anthropology
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Adjuncts
C. Daniel Dawson
Adjunct Professor
Research Interest
Staff
Sharon N. Harris
Administrative Assistant, African American and African Diaspora Studies Department
Staff
Shawn D. Mendoza
Director of Academic Administraion and Finance, African American and African Diaspora Studies Department; Assistant Director, Institute for Research in African-American Studies

Staff
Kalia Brooks Nelson
Mellon Project Director in the African American and African Diaspora Studies Department (AAADS) at Columbia University (Photo credit: Deborah Willis)