Ayanna Hines

Department Administrator

Barker Center 235
12 Quincy St.
Cambridge, MA 02138

aehines@fas.harvard.edu

p: (617) 495-2120

Gbemisola Abiola

African Studies, with a primary field in Anthropology

Gbemisola Abiola is a doctoral candidate at Harvard’s African and African-American Studies program, where she has a disciplinary focus in Social

Emmanuel K. Akyeampong

Ellen Gurney Professor of History and Professor of African and African American Studies
Oppenheimer Faculty Director of the Harvard University Center for African Studies

Chimaobi Amutah

African Studies
Class of 2007

Chimaobi spent time teaching social studies and mathematics at the middle and high school levels for a variety of public, charter, and private educational

Michio Arimitsu

Ph.D. in African American Studies, with a primary field in English
Class of 2014

Michio Arimitsu is a lecturer at Keio University in Tokyo, Japan, where he teaches American Studies.

michioari@gmail.com

Ali S. Asani

Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures;
Associate of Lowell House

Mia L. Bagneris

Ph.D. in African American Studies, with a primary field in History of Art and Architecture
Class of 2009

Mia Bagneris received her PhD in African American Studies in November 2009, and she is now teaching at Tulane University in African & African Diaspora

Charrise Barron

African American Studies, with a primary field in Religion

Charrise Barron is PhD Candidate in African American Studies, with a primary field of concentration in religion and secondary in ethnomusicology. Her

Robert H. Bates

Eaton Professor of the Science of Government and Professor of African and African American Studies

Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús

Assistant Professor of African American Religions

Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús is a cultural and social anthropologist who has conducted multi-sited ethnographic field-research with Santería practitioners in Havana and Matanzas, Cuba, and Miami, New York City, and the San Francisco Bay Area. Read more about Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús

Harvard Divinity School

Harvard Scholar Website

Harvard Divinity School
45 Francis Ave. Divinity Hall 409
Cambridge, MA 02138

abelisodejesus@hds.harvard.edu

p: (617) 384-9028

Jody Benjamin

African Studies, with a primary field in History

Jody Benjamin is a PhD Candidate in African and African American Studies with a primary field in History. His dissertation, “The Texture of Change: Cloth,

Robin Bernstein

Dillon Professor of American History and Professor of African and African American Studies and of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality

Suzanne P. Blier

Allen Whitehill Clowes Professor of Fine Arts and Professor of African and African American Studies

Read more about Suzanne P. Blier

AfricaMap

Academic Website

Harvard Gazette Article "Casting an Impression"

Sackler Museum
485 Broadway Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138
Harvard Scholar Website:
http://scholar.harvard.edu/blier/
Fax: (617) 495-1769

blier@fas.harvard.edu

p: (617) 495-0781

Lawrence D. Bobo

W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences
Chair of the Department of African and African American Studies

Lawrence D. Bobo is the W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of the Social

Stephanie Bosch Santana

PhD in African Studies with a primary field in English
Class of 2015

Stephanie Bosch Santana is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at UCLA. Her research explores Anglophone and African language fiction, with a

Department of African and

African American Studies

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