Faculty

Appointed Faculty

Faculty members appointed in African American Studies also hold appointments in other CLAS units, as shown below.

African American Studies Coordinator

Richard B. Turner, Associate Professor, Religious Studies

Professor

Horace Porter, F. Wendell Miller Professor of English and American Studies

Associate Professors

Venise Berry, Journalism & Mass Communication

Tisch Jones, Theatre Arts

Michael Lomax, Health and Sport Studies

Sydné Mahone, Theatre Arts

Kevin Mumford, History

Leslie Schwalm, History, Women's Studies

Assistant Professors

Steve Berry (Visiting), Communication Studies

Tim Havens, Communication Studies

Lena Hill, English

Michael Hill, English

Miriam Thaggert, English

Bridget Tsemo, Rhetoric

Deborah Whaley, American Studies

Vershawn Ashanti Young, Rhetoric