Our faculty expertise in the global study of race and Blackness in the traditional disciplines of English, anthropology, literature, history, politics, philosophy, sociology and art history makes Africana studies at Cornell a significant resource for undergraduate and graduate students who want to engage in the interdisciplinary study of Black people in Africa, the African diaspora and around the globe.
Core Department Faculty
Michell Chresfield
Assistant Professor
Faculty Fellow
Africana Studies and Research Center, American Studies Program, Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program, History, Society for the Humanities
Grant Farred
Professor
Africana Studies and Research Center, Comparative Literature, Literatures in English
Ambre Dromgoole
Assistant Professor
Africana Studies and Research Center, American Studies Program, Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program, Music, Religious Studies Program
Siba N’Zatioula Grovogui
Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
Africana Studies and Research Center
Xavier Pickett
Assistant Professor
Africana Studies and Research Center, American Studies Program, Religious Studies Program
Riché Richardson
Professor
Chair
Africana Studies and Research Center, American Studies Program, Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program, Literatures in English
Language Lecturers
Emeritus Faculty
Gerard Aching
Professor Emeritus
Africana Studies and Research Center, French Studies Program, Romance Studies
Carole Boyce Davies
The Frank H.T. Rhodes Professor Humane Letters, Emerita
Africana Studies and Research Center, American Studies Program, Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program, Literatures in English
Salah M. Hassan
Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences Emeritus
ICM Director
Africana Studies and Research Center, History of Art and Visual Studies, Institute for Comparative Modernities
