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Black History Month: Africa and African American Experts

The University of Maryland has a wide range of faculty experts who can talk about the black experience in the U.S. and abroad. Topics include politics, culture, media, economy, race, gender, family, history, and more.

Please feel free to contact any of our experts directly. Experts are listed alphabetically.


Number of experts found: 17

 
Elsa Barkley Brown

Associate Professor, Affiliate Associate Professor

History

Expertise Key Words:
African American political culture with an emphasis on gender. US History, African-American History, African-American Women's History

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 4290

ebarbrwn@umd.edu

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Ira Berlin

Distinguished University Professor

History

Expertise Key Words:
US History, African-American History, Slavery; Reparations

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

Cell phone          

E-mail(s)    

301 405 4266

202-3636310

iberlin@umd.edu

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Douglas J. Besharov

Professor

School of Public Policy

Expertise Key Words:
Education (vocational, high-school counseling, Affirmative Action, and student aid); Poverty; Welfare reform (job training and program evaluation); Families (marriage, divorce, same-sex marriage, and nonmarital births); Child abuse/child welfare; Preschool and Head Start; Race and ethnicity.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 6341
201 862-5984

besharov@umd.edu

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Patricia F. Campbell

Associate Professor

Curriculum & Instruction

Expertise Key Words:
urban education and reform, reforming mathematics instruction in the K-5 classroom; professional development for teachers.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 3129

patc@umd.edu

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Vincent Carretta

Prof

English

Expertise Key Words:
Writings and representations, both verbal and visual, of people of African descent in the English-speaking world during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and early nineteenth centuries. Transatlantic literature and culture in general during the same period in the English-speaking world.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 3759

vac@umd.edu

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Melinda Chateauvert

Assistant Professor

African American Studies

Expertise Key Words:
Sexuality, Gender, Civil Rights, Human Rights, Labor, history, queer politics, citizenship, race, racism, homosexuality, public policy, GLBT issues, reproductive justice, desegregation of higher education, African Americans, prostitution, sex work, Louisiana, death penalty, Maryland, baby boomers.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 1164
202 262 2632

mchateau@umd.edu

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Patricia H. Collins

Prof, Affiliate Prof

Sociology

Expertise Key Words:
Theory; Gender, Work and Family; Comparative

Additional Research Areas:

Racial theory; Intersectional theory; Black feminist theory; Sociology of knowledge

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 7707

collinph@umd.edu

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Bonnie T. Dill

Affiliate Professor, Professor & Chair - Consortium on Race, Gender, and Ethnicity

Women's Studies

Expertise Key Words:
The intersections of race and gender; African-American women and families; work, family, and poverty. She is currently conducting a research project studying single mothers in rural southern communities.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 6878

btdill@umd.edu

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Sylvester J. Gates

John S. Toll Professor

Physics

Expertise Key Words:
string theory, physics education, supersymmetry, science and technology and global economic development,

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 6025

gatess@umd.edu

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Sharon Harley

Associate Professor & Chair,; Affiliate Associate Professor

African American Studies

Expertise Key Words:
Afro-American history, black culture, women's history and women and work.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 1163

sharley@umd.edu

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Courtland Lee

Professor

Counseling & Personnel Services

Expertise Key Words:
Multicultural Counseling
Group Counseling
Professional Orientation to School Counseling
Clinical Supervision

Expertise Credentials:
Dr. Lee is the author, editor, or co-editor of four books on multicultural counseling and the author of two books on counseling African American males. In addition, he has published numerous book chapters and articles on adolescent development and counseling across cultures.

Dr. Lee served as President of the American Counseling Association, President of the Association for Multicultural Counseling and Development and President of Chi Sigma Iota, the international counseling honor society. He is a charter member of Chi Sigma Iota's Academy of Leaders for Excellence. Dr. Lee is the former editor of the Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development and the Journal of African American Men. He currently serves on the editorial board of the International Journal for the Advancement of Counseling and the Career Development Quarterly. Dr. Lee is the Secretary of the International Association for Counseling and serves as that association's nongovernmental representative to the United Nations in New York. He is also a Fellow of the British Association for Counseling and Psychotherapy, the first and only American to receive this honor.

Dr. Lee has held counselor education positions at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Virginia. In addition, he served as the Dean of the School of Education at Hunter College of the City University of New York. A former teacher and school counselor, Dr. Lee serves as an educational consultant in the United States and abroad.

Web Site(s):
Dr. Lee's Homepage - Department of Counseling and Personnel Services
MIMAUE Home Page

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 8904

clee5@umd.edu

Address:
3214 Benjamin Building
College Park, MD  20742

Degrees:
Ph.D., Counseling, Michigan State University

Publication(s):
See C.V. on Counseling Home Page


 
Michael Olmert

Professor of Practice

English

Expertise Key Words:
The connections between history and literature; the material past; the nature of history, literary history, and architectural history.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

Home phone    

Cell phone          

E-mail(s)    

301 405 3746

410-745-3937

410-924-5433

olmert@umd.edu

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Sheri L. Parks

Associate Professor

American Studies

Expertise Key Words:
Media criticism; popular American culture and aesthetics with a special focus on family, gender and race; Harry Potter and American culture.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 6255
301-405-1354

slp@umd.edu

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Leslie S. Rowland

Associate Professor; Affiliate Associate Professor; Affiliate Professor

History

Expertise Key Words:
History of the U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction. Southern History. The American South. Slavery and Emanciation. Transition from Slavery to Freedom in the United States. African Americans in the era of the Civil War and Reconstruction.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 4274

lrowland@umd.edu

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Kevin M. Roy

Associate Professor

Family Science

Expertise Key Words:
Dr. Roy's research focuses on the involvement of low-income men (fathers) in jobs, intimate relationships, parenting, and family residences. He also examines how poor families in diverse urban communities create social capital for their children.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301-405-6348

kroy@umd.edu

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Steven Selden

Professor

Education Policy Studies

Expertise Key Words:
History of the American Eugenics Movement; Involuntary Sterilization; Curriculum Policy; Higher education curriculum ; Higher education teaching improvement; Webcam.

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 3566

selden@umd.edu

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Psyche A. Williams-Forson

Asst Prof, Aff Asst Prof

American Studies

Expertise Key Words:
Food and Foodways, Material Culture, African American Studies

Contact Information:

Work phone(s)    

E-mail(s)    

301 405 4631

pwforson@aol.com

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