African American Studies — ϲ Tue, 16 Jul 2024 14:01:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 Vlad Dima /faculty-experts/vlad-dima/ Fri, 10 Mar 2023 19:35:57 +0000 /?post_type=faculty-experts&p=185756 Vlad Dima is Professor and Chair of the Department of African American Studies at ϲ. He has published numerous articles, mainly on French and francophone cinemas, but also on Francophone literature, comics, American cinema, and television. He is the author of the following books:(Indiana University Press, 2017),(Michigan State University Press, 2020), and(Michigan State University Press, 2022).

Professor Dima can discuss issues with African cinema, French Cinema with a focus on New Wave, film theory, the films of Alfred Hitchcock, American auteur cinema such as Tarantino films, television studies, theater of the absurd, and zombies. He also teaches a course about soccer in Africa.

 

]]> Kishi Ducre /faculty-experts/kishi-ducre/ Wed, 22 Dec 2021 19:32:08 +0000 /?post_type=faculty-experts&p=167868 Research and Teaching Interests

Environmental Sociology; Environmental Justice Research Methodology; Race, Class, and Gender Stratification; Geographic Information Systems & Spatial Analysis; Theater of the Oppressed and African American Research Methods.

Selected Publications

Racialized Spaces and the Emergence of Environmental Injustice (in) Echoes of Poisoned Well: Global Memories of Environmental Justice. Edited by Silvia Washington, Paul Rosier, and Heather Goodall. forthcoming

Addressing Environmental and Food Justice toward Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline: Poisoning and Imprisoning Youth, (co-edited with Anthony K. Nocella and Johnny Lupinacci) Palgrave McMillan, 2016

“Race(ing) to the Baby Market: The Political Economy of Overcoming Infertility” in Motherhood 2.0: Consumption, Communication, and Mothering in the Twenty-first Century (editors Jennifer L. Borda, Anne T. Demo, and Charlotte H. Krolokke), University of Alabama Press, 2015

A Place We Call Home: Gender, Race, and Justice in ϲ, ϲ Press, 2012

“Extending Timeline of Environmental Justice Claims: Redlining Map Digitization Project” (co-authored with Eli Moore) Environmental Practice Journal 13 (4), December 2011: 325-339.

“Katrina as Postscript to Racialized Spaces in Louisiana” in Seeking Higher Ground: The Race, Public Policy and Hurricane Katrina Crisis Reader (editors Manning Marable, Ian Steinberg, and Kristen Clarke-Avery), Palgrave MacMillan, 2008

Books

]]> Danielle Smith /faculty-experts/danielle-smith/ Thu, 12 Mar 2020 23:16:16 +0000 /?post_type=faculty-experts&p=158895 Danielle Smith is a professor of African American studies in the College of Arts and Sciences and the director of the Renée Crown University Honors Program. Professor Smith teaches coursework focusing on global public health, environmental sustainability and issues of social justice and human rights.

Smith’s core research areas include refugee migration and resettlement, reconciliation and reconstruction in post-conflict societies, and disaster response and management, with particular focus on Africa and its diasporas.

Smith has presented her work nationally and globally. Her research and writings have been published in scholarly journals including the Journal of Health and Social Policy, Global Public Health, Economic Development Quarterly, Development and Society, Journal of Black Studies and Liberian Studies Journal.

]]> Herb Ruffin II /faculty-experts/herb-ruffin-ii/ Mon, 05 Mar 2018 21:27:18 +0000 /?post_type=faculty-experts&p=130444 Herb Ruffin is Associate Professor of African American Studies at ϲ. He holds a Ph.D. in American History from Claremont Graduate University, California. His research examines the African American experiences in Silicon Valley (California), San Antonio (Texas), and in particular, the process of Black suburbanization in the American West from 1945-2010. Professor Ruffin’s book. In addition, he has authored numerous articles, book reviews, and online academic publications that focus on African Diaspora History and Culture, the Black West, Urban Studies and Social Movements. He has also been an active consultant in regard to organizing curriculum, public exhibits, and historical presentations on Africa and African Diaspora history and culture, including work with the Smithsonian Institution, Africa Initiative, and serving as U.S. Historian Delegate to South Africa.

]]> Horace Campell /faculty-experts/horace-campell/ Mon, 20 Feb 2017 18:23:47 +0000 /?post_type=faculty-experts&p=114567 is Professor of African American Studies and Political Science at ϲ in ϲ New York. He is a noted Pan African Scholar and writer. He hasan activist and a scholar for more than 40 years.

From his early years in Jamaica, Campbell has been involved in the Black Liberation Struggle and in the struggles for peace and justice. From his years in Toronto, Canada to his sojourns in Africa (Uganda, Tanzania and Zimbabwe), the United Kingdom and other parts of the Caribbean , he has been an influential force offering alternatives to the hegemonic ideas of capitalism. While at the University of Dar es Salaam, he was the Secretary of the Liberation Support Committee. As a member of the Dar Es Salaam school he was active in debates on the transition beyond colonialism. He also serves as the Chairperson of the Walter Rodney Commemoration Committee.

He is the author of numerous books including;;;;and.

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