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IDBS Chair Shiela Walker (right), Congresswoman
Cynthia McKinney (secong
on right), Kelly
Lewis (secong
on left),
and Nadiya Beckwith-Stanley
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Faculty
Affiliated
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Core
Faculty
Members
of the Core Faculty hold appointments with
both the Intercollegiate Department of Black
Studies (IDBS) and one of The Claremont Colleges.
Core Faculty participate fully in all departmental
decisions. Only Core Faculty vote on Appointment,
Promotion, and Tenure decisions.
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1995- Pitzer
College, Associate Professor,
Sociology. Ph.D.,
University of Manchester (United Kingdom).
Basu
specializes in urban sociology, popular
culture ethnic entrepreneurship, and
race and ethncity. Recent publications
include a chapter in Sociology, the
state and social change, and journal
articles in Post Colonial Studies, Psych
Discourse, and Ethnic and Racial
Studies. Web page: click
here. E-mail: click
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1993- Pitzer
College, Professor, Psychology. Ph.D.,
University of Michigan
Professor
Fairchild has over 200 publications including
four co-authored or co-edited books. A
social psychologist, Professor Fairchild's
interests are in race relations, Black Psychology,
and HIV/AIDS. He is currently working
on a novel that examines aspects of the slave
trade trade in 18th Century West Africa.
Web page: click
here. E-mail: click
here. or Home
E-mail.
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1997- Pitzer
College, Associate Professor,
English and World Literature. Ph.D.,
Unicersity of California, San Diego
Professor
Harris is a specialist in African American
literature, gay and lesbian literature,
and the Harlem Renaissance. E-mail: click
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Eric
Hurley
- 2007-
Pomona College, Assistant Professor
- Psychology.
Ph.D., Howard University
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Hurley
has received the Jeffrey S. Tanaka
Memorial Dissertation Award for Excellence
in Doctoral Research, American Psychological
Association, OEMA. Dissertation title:
Culture and patterns of cognitive development
as they are related to the school performance
of African-American children. Hurley’s
interest includes culture, group processes,
minority education, stereotype threat,
video coding, African Americans, Black
psychology, communalism, collectivism,
ogbu, racial identity, and South Africa. E-mail
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Agnes
Moreland Jackson
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1969-1997. Professor
Emerita, Pitzer College, Peter S. and
Gloria Gold Professor (1992-97),
English and World Literature. Ph.D., Columbia
University.
Jackson's
publications are in American literature and
on cultural and educational values in U.S.
society. She has conducted workshops for
teachers of Black American literature and
was consultant to several college English
departments as they brought African American
literature into their curricula. Jackson
is also active in public affairs. She was
elected to two four-year terms on the Pomona
School Board. Professor Jackson served
as the Sojourner
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Sidney
Lemelle
1986- Pomona
College, Professor, History. Ph.D.,
University of California, Los Angeles.
Published
in journals in the United States and in England,
Lemelle's work emphasizes African history and
Pan-Africanism. He is the author of Pan-Africanism
for Beginners and editor of a volume of
essays, Imagining Home.
E-mail: click
here.
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Rita
Roberts
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1987- Scripps
College, Professor, History.
Ph.D.,
University of California, Berkeley.
Roberts'
most recent publication appeared in the journal, Eighteenth-Century
Studies. Roberts is the author of a
forthcoming book on black political thought
in the early republic. She is also working
on a multicultural U.S. history survey textbook. E-mail: click
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- 1977- Claremont
McKenna College, Professor, French.
Ph.D.,
University of California, Los Angeles.
Shelton
has published numerous articles on Caribbean,
African, and modern French literature and is
the author of a book on the Haitian novel.
Her most recent publication appears in the
volume entitled, A History of Literature
in the Caribbean. E-mail: click
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Valorie
Thomas
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1998-
Pomona College, Associate Professor,
English. Ph.D.,
University of California, Berkeley.
Thomas
is a specialist in African Diaspora Film,
African American Literature, and Screenwriting
as creative and critical process. Her
article titled,
"1+1=3: Reading Vertigo in Invisible
Man, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, and
Song of Solomon,"
was published in African American Review,
Vol. 37, #1 Spring 2003: 81-94. She is
alsocompleting a book on representations
of vertigo and vernacular space in African
Diaspora film and literature. Prof.
Thomas was co-convener of the first Pomona
College English Department Spring 2001
Conference Series, "Representations:
Race/Technology/Culture,"
www.english.pomona.edu/rtc/, co-sponsored
by IDBS.
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Affiliated
Faculty are those who do not hold a joint appointment
with the Intercollegiate Department of Black
Studies (IDBS) but teach courses and conduct
research in an area of Black Studies. Claremont
Colleges faculty interested in Affiliate status
with the IDBS make a request in writing or are
otherwise invited by the IDBS to join the department.
Affiliate status is granted by the department
based upon the individual's c.v., course offerings,
and scholarly contribution in relation to the
overall mission of the department.
Affiliated
Faculty are expected to participate fully in meetings
and other departmental activitites. While they
do not technically vote on appointment, promotion
and tenure, they are invited to participate in
various aspects of the review process. Their input
is taken into account in reaching final APT decisions.
Affiliated
Faculty
Dean
McHenry,
Politics and Policy, Claremont Graduate
University
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Gaspar Yanga
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Adam
Bradley
- 2005- Claremont
McKenna College, Assistant Professor,
Literature. Ph.D., Harvard University
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Adam
Bradley's research and teaching interests
span the range of African American literature
and culture, with specific focus on hip
hop poetics and black political writing.
Bradley is co-editor of the forthcoming
scholarly edition of Ralph Ellison's unfinished
second novel with Ellison's literary executor,
John Callahan.
He is a contributor to the Washington Post's Book
World , and has appeared on National
Public Radio and XM Satellite Radio. Currently
he is at work on a study of Ralph Ellison
and American Identity in addition to a
collaborative project on rap and poetry.
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Cecilia
Conrad
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1996-* Pomona
College, Professor,
Economics. Ph.D., Stanford University.
Conrad's
most recent publications have appeared in
the Review of Black Political Economy, The
Journal of Economic History, and the American
Economic Review. Her research interests
are currently in poverty among single mothers
and the impact of the California Civil Rights
Initiative on higher education. She is past
President of the National Economic Association. Web
page: click
here. E-mail: click
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Matthew
Delmont
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2008-
Scripps College, Assistant
Professor
American
Studies. Ph.D., Brown University
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Scripps
faculty since: 2008
E-Mail: Matthew.Delmont@scrippscollege.edu
Academic
History
Ph.D., American Civilization,
Brown University, Providence,
RI, 2008
M.A., American Civilization,
Brown University, Providence,
RI, 2004
B.A., Social Studies, Magna
Cum laude, Harvard University,
Cambridge, MA, 2000
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April
Mayes
- 2007- Pomona
College, Assistant Professor
History. Ph.D., University of Michigan.
Currently
Professor Mayes is writing a book that examines
the transformation of Dominican identity
from brown to white in the period between
1870 and 1930. Mayes second project is an
examination of the transnational movement
of ideas among African-descended political
leaders in the United States, Haiti, and
the Dominican Republic during the nineteenth
century. E-mail |
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Gwendolyn
Lytle
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1985- Pomona
College, Professor and Resident Artist,
Music. M.M.,
New England Conservatory of Music.
Lytle
teaches vocal performance specializing in
American music with an emphasis on African-American
composers. She has performed widely in the
United States and abroad. E-mail: click
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Dean
E. McHenry, Jr.
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2000- Claremont
Graduate University. Professor
of
Politics and Policy. Ph.D., Indiana
University (1971).
Professor
McHenry is in a specialist in African politics,
has researched and taught for many years
in Africa, his most recent book was Limited
Choices: The political struggle for
socialism in Tanzania (Lynne Rienner, 1994). He
teaches comparative politics of the Third
World. He has been at CGU since 1982. He
is currently co-chair of the Certificate
Program in Africana Studies at CGU. Email: click
here. |
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Linda
M. Perkins
- 2004- Claremont
Graduate University. University
Associate Professor of Education. Ph.D.,
University of Illinois, Urbana -
Champaign (1978).
Professor
Perkins, Ph.D is University
Associate Professor of the Claremont Graduate
University. She holds an interdisciplinary
university appointment in the departments
of Applied Women's Studies, Educational Studies
and History. Perkins is a historian
of women's and African American higher education. Her
primary areas of research are on the history
of African American women's higher education,
the education of African Americans in elite
institutions and the history of talent identification
programs for African Americans students. She
is currently on the editorial boards of the History
of Education Quarterly and the Review
of African American Education. Her
publications include Fanny Jackson Coppin
and the Institute for Colored Youth,
1837-1902 (1987) and The African
American Female Elite: The Early History
of African American Women in the Seven Sister
Colleges, 1880-1960 in the Harvard Educational
Review (Winter 1997). She will
hosted a national research conference February
25 and 26, 2005 on the impact of the Brown
decision and the 1964 Civil Rights Act on
Black higher education. Email |
Darryl
Smith
- 2006- Pomona
College. Assistant Professor
- Religious
Studies. Ph.D., Princeton University.
Smith’s
expertise includes philosophy of religion, African
American letters and theology, American pragmatism,
theodicy and the Problem of Evil. Professor Smith’s
publications includes "Droppin' Science: Signification
and Singularity in the Metapocalypse of Du Bois,
Baraka, and Bell," Callaloo: A Journal of African
Diaspora Arts & Letters (forthcoming 2006)
and "The Pretended," in Dark Matter: A Century
of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora
(S.R. Thomas, ed. Warner Aspect, 2000).
E-mail
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Gail
Thompson
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2007- Claremont
Graduate University,
Professor,
Education. Ph.D., Claremont Graduate University
(1998)
Dr.
Gail L. Thompson, an Associate Professor at
the Claremont Graduate University, has written
four books: Up Where We Belong: Helping African
American and Latino Students Rise in School
and in Life; African American Teens Discuss
Their Schooling Experiences; What African American
Parents Want Educators to Know; and Through
Ebony Eyes: What Teachers Need to Know but
are Afraid to Ask About African American Students,
a book that has received a considerable amount
of attention from educators, talk show hosts,
and news reporters across the nation; She co-wrote
a fifth book, Exposing the Culture of Arrogance
in the Academy: A Blueprint for Increasing
Black Faculty Satisfaction, with Dr. Angela
Louque. Dr. Thompson has written chapters that
were published in two edited books, From Work-Family
Balance to Work-Family Interaction: Changing
the Metaphor, and Narrowing the Achievement
Gap: Strategies for Educating Latino, Black,
and Asian Students. One of her essays was published
in USA Today, and her work has been published
in numerous academic journals. Dr. Thompson’s
teaching interests are the schooling experiences
of African American K-12 students, multiculturalism
and diversity, literacy, the achievement gap,
Writing for professional publication, and resiliency.
Her research interests are African American
K-12 students, African American parents, and
schooling experiences of students of color. E-mail |
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Lako
Tongun
Today,
he holds the Ph.D. in political science from
the University of California, Davis and is
associate professor of international and
intercultural studies at Pitzer College,
where he has taught since 1988. Email. |
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Sheila
J. Walker
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1993- Scripps
College, Associate Professor,
Psychology. Ph.D., Cornell University
Walker
is a developmental psychologist whose research
interests include sociocultural influences
on cognitive development, and the normative
development of African American children and
adolescents. She has conducted research
in West Africa, Appalachia, and Southern California. Recent
research included an ethnographic study of
African American adolescent females; another
project investigated the economic socialization
of African American youth. Her publications
have appeared in journals such as the British
Journal of Developmental Psychology and Memory & Cognition. E-mail: click
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Nicole
Weekes
Pomona
College, Associate
Professor, Psychology/Neuroscience.
Ph.D., University
of California, Los Angeles.
Boston University; B.A.
University of California, Los Angeles; M.A.,
Ph.D.
Expertise: Sex Differences; Hormone Differences;
Neuropsychological Functioning; Hemispheric Specialization
With Pomona Since: 1998
Research
Interests:
Professor Weekes's research entails the associations
among
psychological stress, stress hormones, cognition, and health.
Among her recent projects is one investigating the association
between discrimination stress and health in African American
college students.Email. |
Kathleen
Wicker
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1996- Scripps
College, Professor,
Religion and Humanities. Ph.D., Loyola University
of Chicago.
Wicker's
research interests are in African religions and
African Christianity. She is currently a member
of a team researching Mammy Water ritual in Ghana.
Her most recent publications will appear in Research
in African Literatures and a volume titled African
Spirituality. Web page: click
here. E-mail: click
here.
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Talithia
Williams
Mathematics,
Harvey Mudd College |
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Vincent
Wimbush
2005- Claremont
Graduate University, Professor,
Religion. Ph.D., Harvard University (1983).
Professor
Wimbush's current teaching and research
interests are focused upon: the “New
Testament” and “early Christianity” as
ancient and modern world literary-, rhetorical-ideological
and socio-cultural-political formations;
the expressive forms, politics and ideologies
of ancient and modern constructions of
ascetic pieties and world renunciations;
and the ancient and modern socio-cultural
phenomenon (and political consequences)
of the making and engagement of “scriptures.” In
Claremont he hopes to expand upon this
project in the form of a CGU-based institute
that will facilitate research into the
phenomenon of “scripturalizing” across
communities world wide, especially among
historically dominated peoples. Some of
his more recent publications include: The
Bible and African Americans: A Brief History (2003);
Editor, African Americans and the Bible:
Sacred Texts and Social Textures (2000,
2001); Co-editor, with Richard Valantasis, Asceticism (1995,
2003); Co-editor, with Leif Vaage, Asceticism
and the New Testament ( 1999); Editor, The
Bible and the American Myth (1999);
Editor, Ascetic Behavior in Greco-Roman
Antiquity (1994). Email
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