Faculty
Prof. Angel-Ajani, Asale
Phone: 212-650-8117
Email: aangelajani@ccny.cuny.edu
Office: 7/113B
Expertise & Reasearch:
- Immigration and Refugees in Europe, Africa, and Asia
- Global Trends in the Incarceration and Imprisonment of Women and Girls
- Human Rights in Africa, Latin America, and Asia
- Drug Trafficking and Women
- Immigration Detention
Prof. Berstein, Richard
Phone: 212-650-7385
Email: rbernstein@ccny.cuny.edu
Office: NAC 4/138A
Courses Taught:
- PSC 20800 American Political Thought
- PSC 22000 The Judiciary
- PSC 22100 The Presidency
- PSC 31140 African-American Political Thought
- PSC 31720 Early American Political Development
Prof. Boyd, Herb
Prof. Castro-McGowan, Regina
Phone: 212-650-5261
Email: rcastro-mcgowan@ccny.cuny.edu
Office: NAC 6/336A
Teaching and research interests:
- Latin American literature and film and Luso-Brazilian studies.
- Her research focuses on the literary historiography of the Portuguese Renaissance and the literature of colonial and imperial Brazil.
Prof. Felber-Seligman, Yaari
Phone: 212-650-7469
Email: yfelberseligman@ccny.cuny.edu
Office: NAC 5/127C
Professor Felber-Seligman (pronouns: they/them/theirs) specializes in the history of pre-1700s eastern Africa and comparative world history. They teach courses relating to African history of all eras and periodically also teach courses in early World History. Felber-Seligman is particularly interested in the use of non-documentary sources, comparative trade history, African encounters with others, Africa’s contributions to world history, gender studies, and LGBTQ+ history.
Prof. Fernandez, Maria
Prof. Gibbons, William
Prof. Gillespie, Michael
Phone: 212-650-7914
Email: mgillespie1@ccny.cuny.edu
Office: Shepard 467
His teaching and research focuses on black visual and expressive culture, visual historiography, film theory, film adaptation, and genre theory.
Prof. Reilly, Matthew
Phone: 212-650-7914
Email: mreilly@ccny.cuny.edu
Office: NAC 4/145
Areas of Expertise and Research:
- Slavery
- Irish Diaspora
- Archaeology
- Atlantic World History
- Race and Whiteness
- Caribbean
- Class and Labor
- Colonialism
- Gender
Prof. Rufo, John
Prof. Samad-Matias, Asha
Prof. Sawadogo, Boukary
Phone: 212-650-7167
Email: bsawadogo@ccny.cuny.edu
Office: SH 476
His research and teaching interests are focused on African cinema, documentary and Black world experience.
Prof. Thompson, Keith
Phone: 212-650-5853
Email: kthompson@ccny.cuny.edu
Office: NAC 6/128 or 4/145
Research interests:
- Criminology
- Deviance
- Racial and Ethnic Minority Groups
- Family Relationships
Prof. Thompson, Michelle
Prof. Williams, Justin
Email
jwilliams2@ccny.cuny.edu
Biography
Justin Williams is an associate professor of history at the City College of New York who specializes in the politics of modern Africa and its diasporas. He is author of the book Pan-Africanism in Ghana: African Socialism, Neoliberalism, and Globalization, part of Toyin Falola’s Africa in The World Series on the Carolina Academic Press (2016). Williams has also published articles in African Studies, Journal of Pan African Studies, and the two-volume encyclopedia 50 Events That Shaped African American History. In his spare time, he is an avid fan of the Kansas City Chiefs, Royals, Sporting Kansas City, University of Missouri Tigers and New Jersey Devils.
Education
PhD in History, Stony Brook University
MA in History, Stony Brook University
BA in History, Columbia College (Mo.)
Books
Pan-Africanism Ghana: African Socialism, Neoliberalism and Globalization (Carolina Academic Press, 2015)
Reviewed by Zerihun Berhane Weldegebriel, Addis Ababa University, in African Studies Quarterly, Volume 16, Issue 3/4, 2016
Articles
With Bobby R. Holt, “Atlanta Compromise, 1895” in 50 Events That Shaped African American History (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO Greenwood, 2019)
“The “Rawlings Revolution” and rediscovery of the African Diaspora in Ghana (1983-2015),” African Studies, Vol.74 (3) – December 2015
“New Africa in the World Coming to Harlem: A retrospective comparison of Jerry Rawlings & Thomas Sankara,” Journal of Pan African Studies, Vol.7 (7)- December 2014
Prof. Woodard, Laurie
Phone: 212-650-3918
Email: lwoodard@ccny.cuny.edu
Office: NAC 5/129B
Research interests:
African American Cultural, Intellectual, Social, and Political History, U.S. Social, Cultural, and Political History, Early Modern Atlantic World History and Culture, Post-Emancipation African American Cultural History, Post-Emancipation African American Women’s History
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