Faculty News & Updates, Fall 2019
Heads, directors, and chairpersons of Black Studies programs in the Southeastern Conference held their third annual meeting at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, May 18-19, 2018.
Hosted by Valinda Littlefield, professor of history and director of African American Studies at USC, representatives from the Universities of Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, Georgia, and Auburn attended. Items on the agenda included growth from program to department, faculty hiring, tenure, student recruitment, diversity office, establishing alliances among programs, and study abroad.
Professor Bertin Louis presented at the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), Black Internationalism—Then and Now, March 22-23, 2019. The fourth annual conference took place at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Africana Studies Executive Committee
- Dawn Duke dduke1@utk.edu Chair, Africana Studies, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese
- Katherine Chiles kchiles1@utk.edu, Vice Chair, Africana Studies, Associate Professor, English
- Amadou Sall asall@utk.edu, Vice Chair, Africana Studies and Lecturer
Africana Studies Core Faculty
- Robert Bland, rbland4@utk.edu, Africana Studies, History
- Shaneda Destine, sdestine@utk.edu, Africana Studies, Sociology
- Melissa Hargrove, mhargrov@utk.edu, Africana Studies
- Darrell Kefentse, dkefents@utk.edu, Africana Studies
- Jakia Marie, jmaria@utk.edu, Africana Studies
- Gichingiri Ndigirigi, jndigiri@utk.edu, Africana Studies, English
- Amadou Sall asall@utk.edu, Africana Studies
Africana Studies Advisory Board Members
- Derek Alderman, dalderma@utk.edu, UT Department of Geography
- Katherine Chiles, kchiles1@utk.edu, UT Department of English
- Chonika Coleman-King, ccolem21@utk.edu, UT Department of Theory and Practice in Teacher Education
- Mark Dean, markdean@utk.edu, UT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Rosalind Hackett, rhackett@utk.edu, UT Department of Religious Studies
- Barbara Heath, bheath2@utk.edu, UT Department of Anthropology
- Tricia Hepner, thepher@utk.edu, UT Department of Anthropology
- Carolyn Hodges, chodges@utk.edu
- Corey Hodge, chodges8@vols.utk.edu
- Doug Minter, dminter@knoxvillechamber.com
- Althea Murphy-Price, amurph21@utk.edu, UT School of Art, Printmaking
- Marianne Wanamaker, wanamaker@utk.edu, UT Department of Economics
- Courtney Wright, cwright@utk.edu, UT Department of Communication Studies