Core Faculty
Mabel O. Wilson
Nancy and George Rupp Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation; Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies; Chair, Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies, Architecture Planning Preserv
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 Fellows
Dr. Riana E. Anderson
Associate Professor of Social Work, School of Social Work
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 Fellows
Courtney D. Cogburn
Associate Professor of Social Work, School of Social Work
Research Interest
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
Research Interest
Adjunct Faculty
C. Daniel Dawson
Adjunct Professor
Research Interest
Core Faculty
Nyle 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
University Professor
Research Interest
Core Faculty
Frank A. Guridy
Director of Undergraduate Studies; 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
Adjunct Faculty
Dr. Vivaldi Jean-Marie
Adjunct Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies
Research Interest
Core Faculty
Kellie E. Jones
Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies and Hans Hofmann Professor of Modern Art, Dept 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 Head of the Department of International Relations at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Research Fellows
Colin W. Leach
Adjunct Senior Research Scientist in the Department of Psychology, Department of Psychology
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
Research Fellows
Mignon R. Moore
Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Sociology, Barnard College
Research Interest
Black Curators Matter
Tumelo Mosaka
Black Curators Matter Project Director and Curator
Research Interest
Core Faculty
Rachel Grace Newman
Assistant Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies, A&S African American and African Diaspora Studies
Research Interest
Research Fellows
Robert G. O'Meally
Zora Neale Hurston Professor of English and Comparative Literature, English and Comparative Literature
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
Research Fellows
Angela Simms
Assistant Professor of Sociology and Urban Studies
Research Interest
Core Faculty
Josef Sorett
Dean of Columbia College and Henry L. and Lucy G. Moses Professor; Professor of Religion and of African American and African Diaspora Studies; Vice President for Undergraduate Education, Columbia College
Research Interest
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