Name | Department | Specialization | Contact |
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Hakim Abderrezak | French & Italian | Mahgrebi and Beur Literature, Cinema and Music; Representations of Clandestine Migrations in Arabic, French and Spanish | abder002@umn.edu |
Cawo Abdi | Sociology | Migration; Gender, Race and Class; Family; Islam; Development Studies; Human Rights; Globalization; Africa; Middle East. | cabdi@umn.edu |
Akosua Addo | School of Music | play; international teacher education; elementary music methods; international music education; world music; Arts Integration; African Music | addox002@umn.edu |
Interior Design | Cross-cultural design, Architectural lighting design, African architecture, Computing and design, Global design |
aasojo@umn.edu | |
Said Ahmed | African American & African Studies | Somali | ahme0039@umn.edu |
Ronald R. Aminzade | Global Studies & Sociology | Historical and Comparative; Political Sociology; Sociology of Development; Nationalism; Race Relations; Social Movements; Democratic Theory | aminzade@umn.edu |
Semhar Araia |
African American & African Studies | Africa and African diasporic studies; public policy and law | semhar@umn.edu |
Ragui Assaad | Humphrey School of Public Affairs | International economic development; labor market analysis; politics and economics of the Middle East and North Africa; urban planning; poverty in developing countries; quantitative methods; women's work in developing countries | assaad@umn.edu |
African American & African Studies | Africa, African diaspora, African labor history, South African history |
atkin013@umn.edu | |
Sophia Beal | Spanish and Portuguese Studies | Brazilian Literature and Cultural Studies; Lusophone-African Literature and Cultural Studies; Urban Studies; Postcolonial Studies | sfbeal@umn.edu |
Saloua Ben Zahra | Asian Languages & Literature | Arabic | benz0003@umn.edu |
Maria Brewer | French and Italian | 20th-Century French Literature, Culture, & Theatre | mbrewer@umn.edu |
African American & African Studies | African American women's studies, Black family life, class gender, intersection of economy, race, racism, sociology, women's studies, critical theory, social transformation |
brewe001@umn.edu | |
David Chapman | Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development | Education planning in developing countries, Government initiatives to influence practice at the school and classroom levels, with particular attention to developing countries, Role of information (and information systems) in policy formulation and education planning, Policy research, Program evaluation International issues in higher education | chapm026@umn.edu |
African American & African Studies | African history, comparative tropical history, development issues oral history, past and present urban and rural affairs, West and North African history, Islam |
coifm001@umn.edu | |
Roderick A. Ferguson | American Studies | African-American literature, queer theory and queer studies, classical and contemporary social theory, African-American, intellectual history, sociology of race and ethnic relations, black cultural theory |
fergu033@umn.edu |
Ana Paula Ferreira | Spanish & Portuguese | Portuguese, Brazilian, and Lusophone African literatures | apferrei@umn.edu |
Michael Gallope | Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature | music and sound, continental philosophy and critical theory, visual culture Black/African diaspora, theories of modernism |
mgallope@umn.edu |
African American & African Studies | African Literary and Cultural Production, Literatures of the African Diaspora, Literature of Immigration and Racial Formation in the African Diasporic Spheres, Women's Writings and Feminist Theory, Postcolonial Theory and Criticism, Francophone Studies, Food, (Non)-Eating, and Related Topics in Literature |
ngithire@umn.edu | |
Malaika Grant | Libraries | Subject specialist for: African American Studies, African Studies; Harlem Renaissance; History, African; Immigration | grant044@umn.edu |
Carol Hakim | History | nationalism and intellectual history, state formation, state-society relations, and authoritarianism in the Arab world, political and economic development of the Arab world in the late 19th- and 20th-centuries |
hakimc@umn.edu |
Claire Halpert | Linguistics | Syntax; Prosody-syntax interface; Linguistic field methods; Case and agreement; Bantu linguistics | halpert@umn.edu |
Abdelkader Hamouchi | Asian Languages & Literature | Arabic | hamou006@umn.edu |
Douglas Hartmann | Sociology and African American & African Studies | American society, culture, ethnographic studies, field methods, mass media, Midnight Basketball outreach programs, popular culture, race, social change, social movements, social uses of recreational programming, sport culture, theory, poorly understood institution in the modern world |
hartm021@umn.edu |
Allen F. Isaacman | History, African American & African Studies | Agrarian change, Central and Southern Africa, comparative history, peasants, rural protest, slavery and maroon communities, social history of Mozambique, the agency of ordinary people, the nature of African resistance to European colonial domination, oral history, East Africa and problems in southern Africa. racial problems in southern Africa |
isaac001@umn.edu |
Zenzele Isoke | Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies; Political Science; and African American & African Studies | U.S. Black Women's Politics and Activism, Black Feminist Thought, Urban Studies, Urban Ethnography, Feminist Geography, Feminist Theory and Methods |
isoke001@umn.edu |
Jason T Kerwin | Applied Economics | Health and labor markets in sub-Saharan Africa (Malawi and Uganda) | jkerwin@umn.edu |
Hisham A. Khalek | Asian Languages & Literature | Arabic, Comparative International Development in Education, Languages and cultures of the Middle East and North Africa, Politics, Government, and Society of the Arab World | hkhalek@umn.edu |
Malinda A Lindquist | History |
African-American history, U.S. history, racial-gender theory, manhood in the Americas, feminist theory |
lindqust@umn.edu |
Enid Logan | Sociology | Blackness in the Americas, Contemporary U.S. Race Relations; Race & the Body, Race & Electoral Politics, Blacks and Social Class, Afro-Latin America | elogan@umn.edu |
Patricia Lorcin | History | Modern France, Western Imperialism, Colonial/Postcolonial, Mediterranean | plorcin@umn.edu |
History | North Africa in the Middle Ages, Medieval Europe, the Crusades, Christian-Muslim Relations |
mlower@umn.edu | |
Saje M. Mathieu | History | African American history since Reconstruction, 20th century American history, Migration, social movements and political resistance |
smathieu@umn.edu |
Marilena Mattos | Spanish & Portuguese | Portuguese | mmattos@umn.edu |
African American & African Studies | African-American History, 19th and 20th century, Kwanzaa and Black holidays, Civil Rights and Black Power Movement, Black History and Educational Policy, African American Public History |
mayes@umn.edu | |
Kieran P. McNulty | Anthropology | Paleoanthropology, Human and primate evolution, Geometric morphometrics, Cranial evolution and ontogeny, East Africa |
kmcnulty@umn.edu |
Sidow Mohammed | Asian Languages & Literature | Arabic, Somali | moha0160@umn.edu |
Angaluki Muaka | African American & African Studies | Swahili | muaka@umn.edu |
August Nimtz | Political Science, African American & African Studies | African politics, comparative politics, ethnic politics, Marxism, political development, politics of the transition to socialism, political economy |
animtz@umn.edu |
African American & African Studies | Social and behavioral sciences, public policy and development, Africa and African diasporic studies | tokediji@umn.edu | |
Kent D Olson | Applied Economics | Agribusiness Management & Finance, Agricultural Policy,
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kdolson@umn.edu |
African American & African Studies | Black radicalism and internationalism, African American history, Transnational American studies, Critical race studies, Asian American studies |
ohni0001@umn.edu | |
Sonali Pahwa | Theatre Arts and Dance | pahwa007@umn.edu | |
Sarah Elizabeth Parkinson | Humphrey School of Public Affairs | Civil war and occupation, political violence, militant organizations, Middle East and North African politics, social network theory, qualitative methods, refugees | sparkins@umn.edu |
Leigh Payne | Institute for Global Studies, Political Science | Transitional justice and transitions from authoritarian rule in Latin America and South Africa | lpayne@umn.edu |
Helena Pohlandt-McCormick | History | African History | pohla001@umn.edu |
Paul Porter | Agronomy and Plant Genetics | Research and education; cropping systems, agroecology, rye cover crop, World Food Problems, Evaluating Starvation, Agroecosystems, Analysis Field Course, Agroecosystems of the World, and Environment, Global Food Production, and the Citizen; Food and Agriculture from Cairo to Cape Town at 10 mph; Food and Agriculture from Buenos Aires to Lima at 10 mph | pporter@umn.edu |
Ozayr Saloojee | Architecture | Questions of tradition and modernity in Islamic Art and Architecture, role of the sacred in architecture, work and ethic of the Ottoman architect Sinan, interest in contested landscapes and how architecture and urbanism facilitate (or deny), augment or inflect issues of identity and belonging in the cultural and political landscapes of such cities as Istanbul, Cape Town, Jerusalem and contemporary landscapes in the Arab world. | saloojee@umn.edu |
Abdi I. Samatar | Geography | development theory and the state, capitalist development, environment and development, political economy, agrarian change, Ethnic politics, East and Southern Africa, Third World, Islamic world, Botswana, Somalia, Ethiopia |
samat001@umn.edu |
Daniel J. Schroeter | History | Jewish studies, Middle East, North Africa, World history |
schro800@umn.edu |
Rachel Schurman | Sociology | Agri-food Studies, Political Sociology, Social Movements, Global Political Economy, Development/Post-Development Studies | schurman@umn.edu |
Catherine Squires | Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies; Communication Studies | Media, race and politics; Gender and media studies; Public sphere studies; Community-engaged research | squir050@umn.edu |
Charles J Sugnet | English | postcolonial literature, fiction and film of the African diaspora, creative nonfiction writing, the contemporary novel, multi-cultural instruction in the high schools |
sugnet@umn.edu |
Shaden M. Tageldin | Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature | 19th- and 20th-century literatures in English, Arabic, French; Trans-African and Trans-Asian studies; Empire and postcolonial studies, Critical translation theory, Politics of language, literary form, genre; Histories and ideologies of comparative literature, Aesthetics and biologics of race, nation, culture; Literatures of migration and diaspora |
tageldin@umn.edu |
Martha Tappen | Anthropology | human evolution and adaptations, out of Africa I, paleoenvironments, Stone Age archaeology, zooarchaeology, taphonomy |
tappe004@umn.edu |
Frances Vavrus | Organizational Leadership, Policy and Development | Comparative and international education; Education and population change; Gender and development; International development policy and practice; Secondary and teacher education in Sub-Saharan Africa | vavru003@umn.edu |
African American & African Studies | African American music cultures, jazz, blues, gospel, feminism |
willi233@umn.edu | |
African American & African Studies | American and Afro-American literature, intellectual history and popular culture, folklore and oral tradition, sociology of literature, feminist criticism, Harlem Renaissance, Black Arts Movement, Langston Hughes |
wrigh003@umn.edu |