Africana Studies Faculty & Staff

Community/Gun Violence • Trauma • Criminal/Juvenile Justice • Systemic Racism • Mental Health Law • Social Justice

kcoker@conncoll.edu

Dance theory and composition • West African dance and folklore • Somatic practices • Dance history

scollin2@conncoll.edu

Black studies • African American and Caribbean literature and culture • Black sentience • Narrative theory • Affect studies • Gender studies

hcook@conncoll.edu

tdesloge@conncoll.edu

Ethics • Moral psychology • Feminist philosophy • Philosophy of law

sfeld@conncoll.edu

History of Education, Ideas, and Left Movements in the U.S., 1945- Present • Social and Political Theory • Critical Theories of Education • Philosophical and Social Foundations of Educational Inquiry • History of Education as an Academic Field of Study • Social Foundations in Teacher Education

igottesma@conncoll.edu

Race, class and gender • Marriage and the family • Social psychology

charris4@conncoll.edu

Ethnic and Racial Identity • Social Policy • Education • Discursive Psychology • Applied Social Psychology • Intersectionality • Qualitative Methods

rlitchmor@conncoll.edu

American Politics • Race and Ethnic Politics • Public Policy • Constitutional Law • American Political Thought

dmoak@conncoll.edu

Molecular Neuroscience • Neurobiology • Immunology

Creative Writing/Poetry • 20th Century Black Women Writers • The African American Poetic Tradition • Women of Color Feminisms and Intersectionality • American Popular Culture, Media, Language and Poetry

drushin@conncoll.edu

(Auto) Ethnography • Displacement, Loss, Absence, and the search for meaning • Intertextuality and Intermingling • Undocumented-Untitled and (In)difference • Ambivalence, Ambiguity and Paradox • infant, child, adolescent & family work • Transracial Adoption • Relational Ethics

SSIDDIQUE@CONNCOLL.EDU

Modern Africa • Decolonization • Africa and the United States • Youth and Childhood • The Global 1960s

mswagler@conncoll.edu