• » Djola Branner, associate professor of theatre, dean of School for Interdisciplinary Arts
• » Alicia Ellis, assistant professor of German and comparative literature
• » Rachel Ama Asaa Engmann, assistant professor of African studies
• » Aracelis Girmay, assistant professor of poetry
• » Constance Valis Hill, Five College professor of dance
• » Amy Jordan, associate professor of African American history
• » Jill Lewis, professor of literature and gender studies
• » kara lynch, associate professor of video production
• » Lynda Pickbourn, assistant profesor of economics
• » Christopher M. Tinson, assistant professor of African American Studies
• » Daniel Kojo Schrade, associate professor of art
• » Natalie Sowell, associate professor of theatre
• » Suzette Spencer, visiting assistant professor of African American/African diaspora literature
• » Susan Tracy, professor of history and American studies

• » Beauty: The Experience and Struggle of Females within the African Diaspora
• » Health Disparity: Diabetes and African Americans in Boston
• » The Trotters of Boston: Fighting Jim Crow from “Freedom’s Birthplace”
• » Politics of Difference: African-Americans Encountering Islam
• » What it Feels Like for a Girl: Black and Mixed-Race Women’s Identity Construction

• » 20th Century Dance History: American Protest Traditions
• » African American Women in Defense of Themselves: Organizing Against Sexual Violence in African American History
• » Antebellum Social Movements
• » Art/Artifact: African Art and Material Culture
• » Controversies in U.S. Economic and Social History
• » Dancing Motown
• » Interpreting the Movement: Civil Rights and Black Power Movements of Twentieth Century
• » Jazz Modernism
• » Life and Imagination of W.E.B. Du Bois
• » McKay, Robeson, and Assata: Radical Ruptures
• » 'People Without History: Historical Archaeologies of Atlantic Africa and the African Disapora
• » Organizing in the Whirlwind: African American Social Movements in the Twentieth Century
• » Reading, Writing, and Citizenship: African American Educational Campaigns
• » The Great Depression and the Great Recession: The History of Working Class Struggle in America

• » Warfare in the American Homeland
• » Writing the Civil War

The Five College African Studies Certificate Program
Faculty from the Five Colleges continue to be invested in sustaining African-American studies across disciplines. Over thirty courses each semester are taught on African studies through the consortium. The Five College African Studies Certificate Program was created in 1997 to provide students access to a diverse listing of courses. An African Studies Council was designed by faculty members to oversee the certificate program, sponsor lectures and cultural events, and sustain residencies by distinguished scholars.

Africana Studies Library Guide
A curated collection of resources by Hampshire College librarians allows students to access a variety of primary and secondary sources relating to Africana Studies.

The Center for Crossroads in the Study of the Americas (CISA)
Founded in 1997, the Center for Crossroads in the Study of the Americas (CISA) brings together faculty from the Five College consortium who wish to work together to explore relational aspects of identity in the Americas. Instead of adopting a bipolar, “North-South” approach, CISA has developed a “triangular” model for its work, where the three sides are formed by the “Old World” (Africa, Asia, Europe), the polities of the New World, and the indigenous peoples of the Americas.

This conception of the Americas as a crossroads seeks to promote an awareness of the historical and material inter-relationality of citizenship, migration, diaspora, and nationhood. The Center sponsors a number of faculty seminars, curriculum development groups, student symposia, a visiting faculty program, and public events.

Multicultural and International Student Services
The office of multicultural and international student services (MISS) is housed in the Lebrón-Wiggins-Pran Cultural Center.

MISS provides a network of comprehensive services and innovative programs that support and advance the intellectual, personal, cultural, and social development of students of color and international students.

MISS and the Cultural Center work closely with multicultural student groups that make up SOURCE (Students of Under-Represented Cultures and Ethnicities). These groups serve the following populations: indigenous; mixed heritag;, queer people of color and international students; Asian/Asian American; Latino/a American; African/African American; international; James Baldwin Scholars; and women of color and international women.

Additionally, the international student advisor is housed in MISS to assist international students with U.S. immigration and employment regulations, cross-cultural adjustment, and much more.

Professional Organizations of Which Our Faculty are Members:
Association for the Study of American Life and History, National Council for Black Studies, Association of Black Women Historians, Southern Historical Association, Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora, Caribbean Studies Association, African Studies Association, Collegium for African American Research, Society for Historical Archeaology, Society for Black Archaeologists, World Archaeological Congress, Stanford Leiden Heritage Network, American Historical Association, and the Black German Heritage and Research Association.

Journals and Areas where Our Faculty Publish and Display Creative Works:
African Studies Review, African Economic Outlook, The Black Scholar, Journal of Black Studies, Souls, Callaloo, Journal of African American History, Journal of Pan-African Studies, Meridians, Black Women, Gender and Family, African American Review, Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, Drumvoices Revue, Literary Griot: International Journal of Black Expressive Culture, The Review of Black Political Economy, The Western Journal of Black Studies, and Race & Class.