Affiliated Faculty
A priority for our Center is to facilitate and nurture a community of HU scholars with interest in Africa. Affiliated Faculty at the Center for African Studies devote 25 - 100% of their research, teaching, and/or service to the study of Africa and represent a wide range of departments and colleges across campus.
We include all faculty with active or aspirational research and/or teaching interests in Africa as affiliated faculty, and look forward to promoting their work and scholarship on our website and throughout our networks. We invite faculty to share with us what they are doing so that we can publicize it to a wider audience.
Affiliate faculty are eligible for CfAS course and travel awards, research grants, funding for books, and more.
Faculty Highlight
Dr. Saïs Kamalidiin and Music students travel to Senegal
In December 2022, Dr. Saïs Kamalidiin, Associate Professor of Music at Howard, led a group of Howard University musical artists and scholars from The Chadwick A. Boseman College of Fine Arts to Dakar, Senegal for a musical arts intensive featuring visits to all the centers of higher musical education located in Dakar, Senegal, with meetings with former Senegalese Minister of Culture, Youssou N'Dour and MacArthur Fellowship recipient, Tomeka Reid. Ms. Reid, the 2022 "Genius Award" winner, spoke exclusively with our students in Dakar on how our culture and music have and continues to transform the world as we know it. Watch their journey:
Faculty Highlight
Prof Talton democratizing public access to archives in South Africa
Professor Ben Talton, Director of the Moorland Spingarn Research Center at Howard University was in Tshwane, South Africa in February 2023 meeting with colleagues from the National Library of South Africa, the Thabo Mbeki Foundation, and the The Africa Institute. They are developing a framework for a partnership that will center our institutions' respective archives and democratizing public access to them.
Howard Faculty that teaches 100% Africa-related content
Camille Dantzler, PhD
Department of African Studies
Mervat Hatem, PhD
Department of Political Science
Raslan M. Moutraji, PhD
Department of World Languages and Cultures
Josepha Nelson, PhD
Department of African Studies
Bayo Omolola, PhD
Department of World Languages and Cultures
Michael Ralph, PhD
Department of Afro-American Studies
Sipho Sithole, PhD
Department of African Studies
Jean-Jacques Taty, PhD
Department of World Languages and Cultures
Jeanne M. Toungara, PhD
Department of History
Traci Wyatt, PhD
Department of African Studies
Almaz Zewde, PhD
Department of African Studies
Academic Faculty Enhancement and Enrichment (AFEE) Grant
The Academic Faculty Enhancement and Enrichment (AFEE) Program supports Africa-related initiatives across the disciplines and Colleges at Howard University. The goal of the program is to improve and enhance student learning, curriculum development, teaching, professional development, and research related to Africa. Learn more and apply!
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Howard Faculty that teaches 75% Africa-related content
John Cotman, PhD
Department of Political Science
Howard Faculty that teaches 50% Africa-related Content
Clement Akassi, PhD, Department of World Languages and Cultures
Ura Jean Oyemade Bailey, PhD, Department of Human Development and Psychoeducational Studies
Yasmin DeGout, PhD, Department of English
Maru Etta-Nkwelle, PhD, Department of Finance and International Business
Joseph Fortunak, PhD, Department of Chemistry
Carolivia Herron, PhD, Department of English
Ezer Kang, PhD, Department of Psychology
Kehbuma Langmia, PhD, Department of Strategic, Legal and Management Communication
Betram Melbourne, PhD, Department of Theology
James Momoh, PhD, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Rubin Patterson, PhD, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Narendra Rustagi, PhD, Department of Information Systems and Supply Chain Management
Cudore L. Snell, PhD, Social Work
Curtis Kidd Telemaque, PhD, Business
Greg Thomas, PhD, Department of English
Karen Wallace, PhD, Department of World Languages and Cultures
Howard Faculty that teaches 25% Africa-related Content
Miranda Armour-Chelu, PhD, School of Medicine
Alice Ogden Bellis, PhD, Department of Theology
Raymond Bernor, PhD, Department of Anatomy
Helen Bond, PhD, Department of Curriculum and Instruction
Luke Brown, PhD, Department of English
Chimene Castor, PhD, Department of Nutritional Sciences
Mohamed Chouikha, PhD, Department of Engineering and Computer Science
LaTasha Levy, PhD, Department of Afro-American Studies
Elizabeth Clark-Lewis, PhD, Department of History
Lisa Crooms-Robinson, PhD, School of Law
Kofi Kissi Dompere, PhD, Department of Economics
Marsha Echols, PhD, School of Law
Raven Featherstone, PhD, Department of Art
Cain Hope Felder, PhD†, Department of Theology
Matthew George, PhD, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Kenyatta Gilbert, PhD, Department of World Religions
Patrick Goodin, PhD, Department of Philosophy
Jules Harrell, PhD, Department of Psychology
Altaf Husain, PhD, School of Social Work
Charles Ichoku, PhD, Department of Interdisciplinary Studies
L. Jide Iwarere, PhD, Department of Finance, International Business and Economics
Nicole D. Jenkins, PhD, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Jin-Gil Jeong, PhD, Department of Finance, International Business and Economics
Masoud Kavoossi, PhD, Department of Finance, International Business and Economics
Eleanor M. King, PhD, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Marilyn Lashley, PhD, Department of Political Science
Molly Levine, PhD, Department of World Languages and Cultures
Kebreten F. Manaye, PhD, Department of Physiology and Biophysics
Edna Greene Medford, PhD, Department of History
Ahmed Moen, PhD, Department of Allied Health Sciences
Vernon Morris, PhD, Department of Chemistry
Marguerite E. Neita, PhD, Department of Clinical Laboratory Science
Chinyerem Ohia, PhD, Department of Music
Ephraim Okoro, PhD, Department of Marketing
Priscilla O. Okunji, PhD, College of Nursing and Allied Health Services
Reynaldo Ortiz-Minaya, PhD, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Philemon Oyewole, PhD, Department of Marketing
James Phillips, PhD, Department of Art
Catherine Quinlan, PhD, Department of Curriculum and Instruction
Marilyn Sephocle, PhD, Department of World Languages and Cultures
Sandra Shannon, PhD, Department of English
Marc Singer, PhD, Department of English
John Tharakan, PhD, Department of Chemical Engineering
Jennifer C. Thomas, PhD, Department of Media, Journalism and Film
Sheneese Thompson, PhD, Department of Afro-American Studies
Satish Wadhawan, PhD, Department of Economics
Valethia A. Watkins, PhD, Department of Afro-American Studies
Dana Williams, PhD, Department of English
Emeritus Faculty
Robert Edgar, PhD
Department of African Studies
† Deceased