African American & Africana Studies

Picture	Name	Contact
	Nikki Brown 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
	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, and film	kamahra.ewing@uky.edu 1331 Patterson Office Tower
	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
	Fabiola S. Henri Assistant Professor Creole Languages, Descriptive & Theoretical Linguistics, Linguistic Typology, Extensible Lexical databases and Corpora, Experimental data, Language Change, Language Acquisition, Morphological Complexity	fhenri@uky.edu 935 Patterson Office Tower (859)-257-8454
	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 , African American and 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 Louis 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, (859)-257-3593
	Jackie Murray Assistant 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	jackiemurr@gmail.com 1077 Patterson Office Tower
	Francis Musoni Associate Professor Modern African History; Migration; Refugees, Border Studies; Informal Economies, African Liberation Movements	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, US South, critical urban studies	lpe259@uky.edu
	Melynda J. Price Robert E. Harding, Jr. Associate Professor of Law	mjpric2 620 S. Limestone 859-323-1061, 859-257-2284 (AAAS)
	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 of History, Theodore A. Hallam Professorship, 2019-2021 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
	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 Professor Poetry and Poetics, Fiction, African American Cinema, Affrilachia, Diversity in Comics and Graphic Novels, Playwriting and Black Theater	fxw2@uky.edu 1237 Patterson Office Tower 859-257-1035
	Derrick White Associate 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, African African American and Caribbean Literature and Culture	nswr222@uky.edu 1321 Patterson Office Tower 301-257-4401
	Sadia Zoubir-Shaw Professor, Linguistics & French & Francophone Studies, KFLC Conference - Executive Director (2014-2022), Director of the Foreign Language and International Economics Program (FLIE) - 2018 to present, Convener for French and Francophone Studies (2017-2019), Administrator of the Karen and Garland Dever Endowed Fellowship Phonetics and Phonology, Language Development and SLA, translation studies, Intercultural Studies, Foreign Language and International Economics, Language in Performance, Reading/Writing/Textual Analysis, Academic Program Design	szoubir@uky.edu szs.shaw@gmail.com 1023 Patterson Office Tower 859-257-5729

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