Faculty & Staff

Emmett G. Price III, Ph.D. (University of Pittsburgh, 2000)
Associate Professor of Music and African American Studies
www.emmettprice.com
Email: e.price@neu.edu
Phone: 617-373-7700

Areas of Research: African American Music & Culture, Afro-Caribbean Music & Culture, Black Music, Black Church, Hip Hop Culture, Black Arts Movement, Civil Rights Movement, Harlem Renaissance, Generational Divide, Black Popular Culture, Youth Culture

Leonard Brown, Ph.D. (Wesleyan University)
Associate Professor of Music and African American Studies
Email: l.brown@neu.edu
Phone: 617-373-4128

Areas of Research: Music of the African Diaspora, African American Music, African Music, Afro-Caribbean Music & Culture, John Coltrane, Jazz, Improvisational Music, Music of Cuba. More >>

Robin M. Chandler, Ph.D. (Northeastern University, 1992)
Associate Professor of African American Studies
www.rmchandler.com
Email: r.chandler@neu.edu
Phone: 617-373-5681

Areas of Research: Globalization, Gender and Development, The Sociology of Science and Technology, Interdisciplinary Theory and Methodology, Micro-enterprise and the Arts, Global Arts Movements. More >>

Robert Hall, Ph.D. (Florida State University, 1984)
Associate Professor of African American Studies and History
Email: ro.hall@neu.edu
Phone: 617-373-2621

Areas of Research: Food, Nutrition, and Health in the African Diaspora; Atlantic Slave Trade; Comparative Slavery; Civil Rights; Blacks in Higher Education; African American Religion; Abolitionism.

Kwamina Panford, Ph.D. (Northeastern University, 1989) Associate Professor of African American Studies
Email: k.panford@neu.edu
Phone: 617-373-4333

Research Areas: Comparative Economic, Social and Political Development; International Labor Relations and Human Rights; Public Policy and the Roles of the New African Union; the International Financial Institutions such as the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Africa and other developing regions.

Gia Barboza, J.D., Ph.D. (summa cum laude, Michigan State University, 2000), Ph.D. (Michigan State University, 2007)
Assistant Professor of African American Studies
Email:g.barboza@neu.edu
Phone: 617-373-4374

Areas of Research:Public Health Policy; Health Disparities; Health as a mediator of educational and criminal justice outcomes; Sexual Violence Prevention; Youth Violence, Bullying and Cyber bullying; Health and the Law

Mindelyn Buford, II, Ph.D. (The Johns Hopkins University, 2010)
Assistant Professor of Sociology and African American Studies
Email: m.buford@neu.edu
Phone: 617-373-3967

Areas of Research: Socioeconomic integration of Nigerian and Ghanaian Immigrants in the United States, Inequality and Mobility, Racial and Ethnic Minorities, International Migration, and Qualitative Methods

Richard G. Wamai, Ph.D. (University of Helsinki, 2004)
Assistant Professor of African American Studies
Email: r.wamai@neu.edu
Phone: 617-373-4130

Areas of Research: Public Health Policy; HIV/ AIDS in (urban) African Diaspora; Urbanism impact on the health-seeking behavior among Diaspora Africans; Language, Culture and Health Challenges in Immigrant Groups.

Areas of Research: Racial and Ethnic Relations, Sexualities and Queer Theory, Masculinities, Race and Education

Areas of Research: Comparative Politics, Ethnicity and Nationalism, Latino Poltics. More>>

Bonnie TuSmith, Ph.D. (Washington State University)
Associate Professor
Email: b.tusmith@neu.edu
Phone: 617-373-4552

Areas of Research: Ethnic American literature (African-American, Asian-American, Native American, Latino/a), Comparative American Studies, Women's Studies, Critical Race Theory, Multicultural Literary Theory and Pedagogy

Areas of Research: Jazz, African American Music, Black Music, John Coltrane, Duke Ellington, radio broadcasting

Marion Mason M.P.A (George Mason University)
Email: m.mason@neu.edu
Phone: 617-373-4913

Areas of Research: Social Change & Inequities, Community Development, Capacity Building in Urban Communities, Multi-Ethnic Churches, Public Administration, Management & Policy