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
Mervat Hatem, PhD
Department of Political Science
Raslan M. Moutraji
Department of World Languages and Cultures
Bayo Omolola, PhD
Department of World Languages and Cultures
Jean-Jacques Taty, PhD
Department of World Languages and Cultures
Jeanne M. Toungara, PhD
Department of History
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% and 25% Africa-related content
Howard Faculty that teaches 50% Africa-related Content
Dr. Clement Akassi
Associate Professor, Department of World Languages and Cultures
Dr. Ura Jean Oyemade Bailey
Professor, Department of Human Development and Psychoeducational Studies, School of Education
Dr. Yasmin DeGout
Associate Professor and Interim Chair, Department of English
Dr. Maru Etta-Nkwelle
Associate Professor, Department of Finance and International Business
Dr. Joseph Fortunak
Professor, Department of Chemistry
Dr. Carolivia Herron
Lecturer, Department of English
Dr. Ezer Kang
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology
Dr. Kehbuma Langmia
Professor and Chairperson, Department of Strategic, Legal and Management Communication, School of Communication
Dr. Betram Melbourne
Professor, Department of Theology, School of Divinity
Dr. James Momoh
Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Dr. Rubin Patterson
Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Dr. Narendra Rustagi
Professor, Department of Information Systems and Supply Chain Management, School of Business
Dr. Cudore L. Snell
Professor, School of Social Work
Dr. Curtis Kidd Telemaque
Lecturer, School of Business
Dr. Karen Wallace
Professor, Department of World Languages and Cultures
Howard Faculty that teaches 25% Africa-related Content
Dr. Miranda Armour-Chelu marmour-chelu@howard.edu
Dr. Alice Ogden Bellis
Professor, Department of Theology, School of Divinity
Dr. Raymond Bernor
Professor, Department of Anatomy
Dr. Helen Bond
Associate Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, School of Education
Luke Brown
Lecturer, Department of English
Dr. Chimene Castor
Associate Professor, Department of Nutritional Sciences
Dr. Mohamed Chouikha
Professor, Department of Engineering and Computer Science
Dr. Elizabeth Clark-Lewis
Professor, Department of History
Lisa Crooms-Robinson
Professor, School of Law
Dr. Kofi Kissi Dompere
Professor, Department of Economics
Marsha Echols
Professor, School of Law
Raven Featherstone
Assistant Professor, Department of Art
Dr. Cain Hope Felder (PASSED AWAY)
Professor, Department of Theology, School of Divinity
Dr. Matthew George
Professor and Chairperson, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Dr. Kenyatta Gilbert
Associate Professor, Department of World Religions, School of Divinity
Dr. Patrick Goodin
Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy
Dr. Jules Harrell
Professor, Department of Psychology
Dr. Altaf Husain
Assistant Professor, School of Social Work
Dr. Charles Ichoku
Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies, College of Arts and Sciences
Dr. L. Jide Iwarere
Associate Professor, Department of Finance, International Business and Economics, School of Business
Dr. Nicole D. Jenkins
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Dr. Jin-Gil Jeong
Professor, Department of Finance, International Business and Economics, School of Business
Dr. Masoud Kavoossi
Professor, Department of Finance, International Business and Economics, School of Business
Dr. Eleanor M. King
Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Dr. Marilyn Lashley
Professor Emerita, Department of Political Science
Dr. Molly Levine
Professor, Department of World Languages and Cultures
Dr. Kebreten F. Manaye
Professor and Chairperson, Department of Physiology and Biophysics
Dr. Edna Greene Medford
Professor Emerita, Department of History
Dr. Ahmed Moen
Associate Professor, Department of Allied Health Sciences
Dr. Vernon Morris
Professor, Department of Chemistry and Graduate Program in Atmospheric Sciences
Dr. Marguerite E. Neita
Associate Professor, Department of Clinical Laboratory Science
Dr. Chinyerem Ohia
Associate Professor, Department of Music
Dr. Ephraim Okoro
Associate Professor, Department of Marketing, School of Business
Dr. Priscilla O. Okunji
Associate Professor, College of Nursing and Allied Health Services
Dr. Reynaldo Ortiz-Minaya
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Dr. Philemon Oyewole
Professor, Department of Marketing, School of Business
James Phillips
Assistant Professor, Department of Art
Dr. Catherine Quinlan
Assistant Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, School of Education
Dr. Marilyn Sephocle
Associate Professor, Department of World Languages and Cultures
Dr. Sandra Shannon
Professor, Department of English
Dr. Marc Singer
Professor, Department of English
Dr. John Tharakan
Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering
Jennifer C. Thomas
Associate Professor, Department of Media, Journalism and Film
Dr. Satish Wadhawan
Professor, Department of Economics
Dr. Valethia A. Watkins
Associate Professor, Department of Afro-American Studies
Dr. Dana Williams
Professor of African American Literature, Department of English
