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Rosanne Adderley (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1996; Assoc Prof, History). African-American Cultural History, African Diaspora Cultural History, Caribbean History, Comparative Slave Societies, Atlantic Slave Trade. E-mail: adderley@tulane.edu Phone: 504-862-8631.

Jane Carter (Ph.D., Harvard, 1984; Assoc Prof Classical Studies). Early Iron Age connections between Greece, the Near East and Egypt. E-mail: jcarter@tulane.edu Phone: 504-862-3083.

Michael Cunningham (Ph.D., Emory University, 1994; Assoc Prof Psychology). Adolescent development in diverse contexts, resiliency and vulnerability in African American children and adolescents. E-mail: mcunnin1@tulane.edu Phone: 504-862-3308.

Gaurav Desai (Ph.D., Duke University, 1996; Assoc Prof English /ADST). African and African Diaspora Studies, Postcolonial Literature and Theory, Literary, Cultural and Legal Theory. E-mail: gaurav@tulane.edu Phone: 504-862-8162.

Raymond T. Diamond (J.D., Yale University, 1977; Prof Law School). Constitutional Law, Legal History, Criminal Law, Antitrust, the legal and constitutional history of race relations. E-mail: rdiamond@law.tulane.edu Phone: 504-865-5962.

Joel Dinerstein (Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 2000; Asst Prof English). Cultural studies, African-American literature and culture. Author of an award-winning cultural study theorizing the relationship of technology and African-American expressive culture, Swinging the Machine: Modernity, Technology, and African-American Culture Between the World Wars ( University of Massachusetts Press , 2003). E-mail: jdinerst@tulane.edu Phone: 504 862-8168.

Christopher Dunn (Ph.D., Brown University, 1996; Assoc Prof Spanish and Portuguese/ADST). Brazilian Literary and Cultural Studies, Afro-Latin American Studies, Studies in Popular Music, Brazilian Popular Music and National Identity, Afro-Brazilian Cultural Production. E-mail: cjdunn@tulane.edu Phone: 504-865-3416.

Pamela Franco (Ph.D., Emory University, 2001; Asst Prof Art History). Arts of Africa and the African Diaspora; carnival, performance and identity. E-mail: pfranco@tulane.edu

Shayne Lee (Ph.D., Northwestern University, 2002; Asst Prof Sociology/ADST). Popular Culture, Contemporary American Religion, Feminism. Email: slee5@tulane.edu Phone: 504-862-3088.

Javier Leon (Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin 2003; Asst Prof Music). ethnomusicologist originally from Lima , Peru .  He researches criollo and Afroperuvian traditions in coastal Peru and is interested in the intersection between modernity and diasporic identity. He has worked with well-known performers such as Susana Baca, Eva Ayllón, Perú Negro, Gabriel Alegría, and Grupo Teatro del Milenio and also has experience as a performer of various Afro-Caribbean and Latin American musical genres.  Teaches world music, Latin American and Caribbean music, and music and politics . E-mail: jleon@tulane.edu Phone: 504-865-5273.

Elisabeth McMahon (Ph.D., Indiana University, 2005; Asst Prof History). East African History, with a particular focus on slavery, emancipation identity formation, and gender among the coastal Islamic communities.  Email: emcmahon@tulane.edu.  Phone: 504-862-8625.

Nghana Lewis (Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2001; Asst Prof English/ADST). 19th and 20th Century American Literature; African American Expressive Culture, broadly conceived; Law and Education; and Critical Race Theory. Constitutional Law, Legal History, Criminal Law, Antitrust, the legal and constitutional history of race relations. E-mail: nlewis@tulane.edu Phone: 504-865-5962.

Rebecca Mark (Ph.D., Stanford, 1986; Assoc Prof English). Performance Studies, Southern Literature. E-mail: rmark@tulane.edu Phone: 504-862-8176.

Adeline Masquelier (Ph.D., Chicago, 1993; Assoc Prof Anthropology). Cultural Anthropology, Africa, Religion, Medicine, Gender, Colonial and Post-Colonial Societies. E-mail: amasquel@tulane.edu Phone: 504-862-3047.

Supriya Nair (Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1992; Assoc Prof English). Postcolonial Literature and Theory, Cultural Studies, Caribbean Literature, African and African Diaspora Studies, Women's Studies. E-mail: supriya@tulane.edu Phone: 504-862-8159.

Olanike-Ola O. Orie (Ph.D., British Columbia, 1995; Assoc Prof Anthropology). Theoretical linguistics, phonology, morphology, African languages, Africa. E-mail: oorie@tulane.edu Phone: 504-865-5336.

Lawrence Powell (Ph.D., Yale University, 1976; Prof History). Civil War and Reconstruction, Louisiana. E-mail: powell@tulane.edu Phone: 504-862-8622.

Felipe Smith (Ph.D., Louisiana State University, 1988; Assoc Prof English/ADST). American Literature, African-American Literature. E-mail: felipes@tulane.edu Phone: 504-862-3550.

Randy Sparks (Ph.D., Rice University, 1988; Assoc Prof History). Southern History, American Religious History and Slavery. E-mail: rsparks1@tulane.edu Phone: 504-862-8627.

N. Frank Ukadike (Ph.D., New York University, 1989; Assoc Prof Communication/ADST and Director of ADST). African Cinema, Black Diaspora Cinema, Third World Cinema, Film History, Theory and Criticism, Cultural Studies. E-mail: ukadike@tulane.edu

Richard Watts (Ph.D., Yale University, 1998; Asst Prof French and Italian). Francophone African and Diasporic literatures and cultures; Francophone Southeast Asian literature; the colonial/metropolitan relationship; authorship and authority; the paratext. Email: rwatts1@tulane.edu Phone: 504-862-3120.

Justin Wolfe (Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1999; Assoc Prof History). Central America, post-colonial social and cultural history, nation-state formation, race and ethnicity, and the African Diaspora. E-mail: jwolfe@tulane.edu. Phone: 504-862-8630.