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Africa Diaspora, Atlantic Studies

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  Paulina Alberto

  Associate Professor 2705 Haven Hall

  Latin America; Race and nation, racial ideologies, racial politics; Afro-Latin America; Brazil and Argentina734.647.4869 / palberto@umich.edu

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  David William Cohen

  Professor Emeritus 1029 Tisch Hall

  dwcohen@umich.edu

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  Jay Cook

  Associate Professor 1759 Haven Hall

  19th-century cultural and intellectual; African-American; Popular/mass culture; Visual culture; Capitalism734.763.7860 / jwcook@umich.edu

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  Matthew Countryman

  Associate Professor History, American Culture 2759 Haven Hall

  African American social movements, 20th-century U.S. history, race-postwar liberalism-and the American left, African-American politics in the post-civil-rights era.
  Secondary Fields of Study: Public memory of the Civil Rights movement, right-wing social movements, the social construction of race.734.647.2434 / mcountry@umich.edu

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  Kevin Gaines

  Professor 4700 Haven Hall (CAAS)

  U.S. and African American intellectual and cultural history; race and gender politics in post-World War II America; African American cultural production; the global dimensions of U.S. struggles over the meaning of citizenship734.764.5513 / gaineskk@umich.edu

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  David J. Hancock

  Professor 2767 Haven Hall

  Colonial America; Early-Modern Britain and Empire; Business and Economic History; Atlantic History734.763.7589 / hancockd@umich.edu

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  Brandi Hughes

  Assistant Professor 2518 Haven Hall

  North American religion, African American religious and intellectual history734.647.4873 / bshughes@umich.edu

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  Nancy Rose Hunt

  Professor of History (and Obstetrics/Gynecology) 1735 Haven Hall

  Africa, health, medicine, violence, religious studies, humanitarianism, gender, psychiatry, theory, ethnographic history, global history, visual culture734.647.4887 / nrhunt@umich.edu

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  Paul C. Johnson

  Professor of History and Afroamerican and African Studies
  Director, Program in Anthro-History 4658 Haven Hall

  Theories of religion, ethnography, history of the study of religion, religion and race, modern history of Brazil734.764.5513 / paulcjoh@umich.edu

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  Martha S. Jones

  Associate Professor 2703 Haven Hall

  African American history; 19th century United States history; women's history; critical race theory, Atlantic world slavery and law734.647.5421 / msjonz@umich.edu

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  Tiya Miles

  Professor
  Chair, Department in Afroamerican and African Studies 4773 Haven Hall

  African-American and Native-American interrelated and comparative histories, esecially 19th-century; African-American women's istory and literature; Native American women's history and literature; U.S. women's history734.764.5513 / tiya@umich.edu

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  Sherie Randolph

  Assistant Professor 4640 Haven Hall (DAAS)

  20th-century United States; African American; African diaspora; Women and gender; Black feminism(s); Black Power; Social movements734.936.6528 / smrand@umich.edu

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  Rebecca Scott

  Charles Gibson Distinguished University Professor of History and Professor of Law 1749 Haven / 969 Legal Research

  Latin America; Cuba, slavery and emancipation; Labor systems; Comparative citizenship734.763.4779 / rjscott@umich.edu

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  Julius Scott III

  Lecturer in the Department of History

  734.764-6305 / jsscott@umich.edu

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  Carroll Smith-Rosenberg

  Mary Frances Berry Collegiate Professor Emerita

  Gender and class in 19th-century America, American identity and the U.S. Constitutioncsmithro@umich.edu

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  Richard Turits

  Associate Professor 2741 Haven Hall / 2620 School of Social Work Bldg.

  Caribbean; Comparative race and slavery; Comparative authoritarianism; U.S-Latin relations734.647.4873 / rturits@umich.edu

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  Penny Von Eschen

  Professor of History and American Culture
  Associate Chair 2642 Haven Hall
  1029J Tisch

  Transnational cultural and political dynamics;Race, gender, and empire;Political culture of United States imperialism734.647.6157 / pmve@umich.edu

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  Rudolph (Butch) Ware

  Assistant Professor 2510 Haven Hall

  Premodern Africa; Islam in Africa734.647.7943 / rudyware@umich.edu

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