African American & Africana Studies

Picture	Name	Contact
	Nikki Brown Associate Professor African American history, African American women, Film and Visual Studies, Photography	nikki.brown@uky.edu Patterson Office Tower 1723
	J.M.H. Clark Assistant Professor	jmhclark@uky.edu 1757 Patterson Office Tower (859) 257-1859
	Lisa Cliggett Professor of Anthropology and Chair (of Anthropology, not AAAS), Past Editor (2011-2015), Economic Anthropology (Wiley Blackwell Journal) Political Ecology, Sustainability and Environmental Change, Household Political Economy, Kinship-Family and Social Organization, Sub-Saharan Africa, Zambia, Gwembe Tonga Research Project, Qualitative Methods, Digital Data Management, gender, aging and life course, livelihoods, Migration and New Land Settlement, Politcal Economy	lisa.cliggett@uky.edu 204 Lafferty Hall 859 257-2796
	Blanche Bong Cook Associate Professor	blanche.cook@uky.edu University of Kentucky College of Law Law Building 620 South Limestone Lexington, KY 40506 859-257-8352
	Anastasia Curwood Associate Professor, Director, African American & Africana Studies African-American History since 1865, Women's and Gender History, Family History, Biography	a.curwood@uky.edu 1715 Patterson Office Tower, 102 Breckinridge Hall 859-257-6857, 859-257-2284
	Steve Davis Associate Professor South African history; microhistory; public history, Digital Humanities, graphic history, new military history	steve.davis@uky.edu 1749 Patterson Office Tower steve.davis@uky.edu
	Brandon M. Erby Assistant Professor African American Rhetoric, Literacy Studies, Rhetorical Education, Civil Rights & Black Power Movements, Rhetorical History, Prison Writing	bmerby@uky.edu 1335 Patterson Office Tower (859) 257-7002
	Kamahra Ewing Assistant Professor African African American and Caribbean Literature and Culture, African History; Migrations Within and Out of Africa; Diaspora Studies; Refugees; Border Studies; Informal Economies, (Post)colonialism, colonial, Film	kamahra.ewing@uky.edu 1331 Patterson Office Tower
	Anita Fernander Associate Professor, College of Medicine Health inequities among African Americans;, Racism & Race-related Stress, Political and Social Determinants of Health, Cultural Humility	afern2@uky.edu 103 Medical Behavioral Science Building 859-323-4679
	Aria S. Halliday Assistant Professor Black Feminist Thought, Hip-Hop Feminism, Black girlhood, Literature and Visual Culture, film and media studies	a.halliday@uky.edu
	Regina Hamilton Assistant Professor African American Literature, African African American and Caribbean Literature and Culture, 20th Century Women's Narrative, gender and race, Black Queer Studies	regina.hamilton@uky.edu 1369 Patterson Office Tower
	Frances B. Henderson Associate Professor, Gender and Women's Studies Black Feminism, Critical Race Theory, Women and Social Movements, Comparative Politics, Women and Feminisms in Southern Africa	Frances.Henderson@uky.edu 105A Breckinridge Hall (859) 323-8185
	DaMaris B. Hill, PhD Associate Professor of Creative writing, English and African American Studies, Faculty Affiliate for Writing, Rhetoric and Digitial Studies , Faculty Affiliate for African American Studies, Faculty Affiliate for Gender and Women's Studies Environmental Studies, 20th & 21st Century American Culture and Literature, Creative Writing in Digital Spaces, Gender and Women's Studies, digital studies	damaris.hill@uky.edu (859) 257-7006
	Vanessa Holden Assistant Professor of History and African American & Africana Studies	vanessaholden@uky.edu Patterson Office Tower 1751 (859)-257-4346
	Peter Kalliney William J. Tuggle Chair in English Twentieth and Twenty-First Century British Literature and Culture, African African American and Caribbean Literature and Culture	pjkall2@uky.edu 1261 Patterson Office Tower 257-6964
	Bertin M. Louis, Jr. Associate Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies (AAAS) Africana Studies, cultural anthropology, race and racism, African Diaspora, Religion, Human Rights, Statelessness, migration, Haiti, Haitian Studies, Haitian Protestantism, antiracist movements, The Bahamas	bertin.louis@uky.edu 102A Lafferty Hall (Anthropology), 106 Breckenridge Hall (AAAS) (859)-257-4654
	Priscilla McCutcheon Assistant Professor Alternative food movements, Sustainable Agriculture, Black geographies, race and racism, spirituality and religion	priscilla.mccutcheon@uky.edu 853 Patterson Office Tower 859-257-6057
	Jackie Murray Associate Professor, Classics, African American & Africana Studies, Gender & Women Studies Hellenistic Poetry, Greek and Latin literature, Caribbean Culture and Literature, race studies and racial formation, Imperial Greek Literature	jmu245@uky.edu 1077 Patterson Office Tower
	Francis Musoni Associate Professor Modern African History; Migration; Refugees, Border Studies; Informal Economies	fmu223@uky.edu 1701 Patterson Office Tower 859-257-1861
	Lydia Pelot-Hobbs Assistant Professor the carceral state, racial capitalism, social movements and grassroots organizing, prison abolition, Black geographies, feminist and queer politics, Louisiana, critical urban studies	Lydia.Pelot-Hobbs@uky.edu 851 Patterson Office Tower
	Melynda J. Price Robert E. Harding, Jr. Associate Professor of Law	mjpric2 620 S. Limestone 859-323-1061, 859-257-2284 (AAAS)
	Nisrine Slitine El Mghari Assistant Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies, and French and Francophone Studies Maghrebi literature and culture, Colonial and post-colonial studies, Literature and culture of Muslim Spain, urban space, Cultural memory studies, Gender studies, feminist geography, Film and visual culture	nslitine@uky.edu 1015 Patterson Office Tower 859-257-7016
	Gerald L. Smith Professor African American history, Race and Sports, Black Freedom Struggle, African American Education, Kentucky African American history	glsmit01@uky.edu 1773 Patterson Office Tower 859-257-1357
	Melissa N. Stein Associate Professor, Gender and Women's Studies	melissa.stein@uky.edu 206 Breckinridge Hall 859-257-9205
	Amy Murrell Taylor Professor, T. Marshall Hahn Jr. Professorship 19th Century U.S. South, Civil War and Emancipation, Public History, Race and Gender, family	amtaylor1@uky.edu 1703 Patterson Office Tower 859-257-1726
	Vieux A. Toure Instructor, French and Francophone Studies, African American & Africana Studies African and Afro-diasporic literatures and Cultures, African Cinema, Contemporary Africa and Post-colonial/Decolonial Theories	vieuxatoure@uky.edu 1027 Patterson Office Tower 859-257-1066
	MB Visona` Associate Professor, School of Art and Visual Studies African architectural histories, Artists in contemporary Africa, African cultural heritage and art history, Reception of African art	m.b.visona@uky.edu FA 201 (859) 257-1398
	Frank X Walker, Director MFA program Professor Poetry and Poetics, Fiction, African American Cinema, Affrilachia, Diversity in Comics and Graphic Novels, Playwriting and Black Theater, Creative Writing	fxw2@uky.edu 1237 Patterson Office Tower 859-257-1035
	Derrick White Professor of History and African American and Africana Studies	Derrick.White@uky.edu
	Crystal Wilkinson Associate Professor Creative Writing	crystal.wilkinson@uky.edu 1229 Patterson Office Tower email contact preferred
	Nazera Sadiq Wright Associate Professor Colonial Through Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture, Women's Literature and Gender Studies, Black Girlhood Studies, African American Literature and Culture, Black Print Culture Studies, African African American and Caribbean Literature and Culture	nswr222@uky.edu 1321 Patterson Office Tower 301-257-4401

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