African Studies

Faculty

Gregory F. Barz
Professor of Musicology (Ethnomusicology)

Dianna Bell
Mellon Assistant Professor of Religion, Indigenous Religious Traditions of Sub-Saharan Africa

Moses Ochonu
Professor of History


Muktar Aliyu
Associate Director of Global Health
Associate Professor of Health Policy and Medicine, Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health
Associate Director for Research, Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health

Carolyn Audet
Assistant Professor, Health Policy

Amanda B. Clayton
Director of Placement
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science

Jose Cossa
Senior Lecturer in International and Domestic Policy, Department of Leadership, Policy, and Organization

Frank Dobson
Associate Dean of Students
Director, Bishop Joseph Johnson Black Cultural Center

Jeff King
Associate Director, Bishop Joseph Johnson Black Cultural Center

Jaco Hamman
Associate Professor of Religion, Psychology, and Culture and Director of the Program in Theology and Practice

Jane Landers
Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of History, Department of History

Tasha Rijke Epstein
Assistant Professor of African History, Department of History

Clive Mentzel
Director, Office of Active Citizenship and Service

Kristin Michelitch
Assistant Professor
Littlejohn Faculty Fellow
Department of Political Science

W. Frank Robinson
Assistant Professor of History

Carolyn Heinrich
Professor of Public Policy and Education, Deptartment of Leadership, Policy & Organizations

Tara McKay
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Health, and Society and Affiliated Faculty in the Sociology Department

Tiffany Ruby Patterson
Associate Professor, History; Director of Undergraduate Studies, African-American and Diaspora Studies

Keith Weghorst
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science

Rebecca VanDiver
Assistant Professor, Department of History of Art

Jessica M. Perkins
Assistant Professor, Department of Human and Organizational Development