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Professor
Séverine Autesserre
Professor, Political Science, Barnard College; School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA)
Professor
Christopher L Brown
Professor of History, Department of History
Professor
Yvette Christianse
Professor, English, Barnard College
Professor
Zoe Crossland
Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology
Professor
Souleymane Bachir Diagne
Professor of French and Philosophy
Professor
Mamadou Diouf
Professor of African Studies, Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies (MESAAS)
Professor
Madeleine Dobie
Professor of French, Department of French
Professor
Matthew E. Engelke
Professor of Religion; Chair, Department of Religion, Department of Religion
Professor
Laura J. Fair
Professor of African History, Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies (MESAAS)
Associate Professor
Abosede A George
Associate Professor, History, Barnard College
Professor
Kellie E. Jones
Professor of Modern Art, Department of Art History and Archaeology
Visiting Professor
Marie-Helene Koffi-Tessio
Lecturer in French, Department of French
Professor
Brian Larkin
Professor, Anthropology, Barnard College
Professor
Mahmood Mamdani
Professor of Government, Department of Anthropology
Professor
Timothy P Mitchell
William B. Ransford Professor of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies and Professor of International and Public Affairs, MidEast S Asian & African Stud
Professor
Rosalind C. Morris
Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology
Professor
Premilla Nadasen
Professor, History, Barnard College
Lecturer
Abdul Nanji
Senior Lecturer in Swahili, Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies (MESAAS)
Assistant Professor
Ruth S. Opara
Assistant Professor of African Music, Department of Music
Assistant Professor
Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi
Assistant Professor, Architecture, Barnard College
Associate Professor
Joseph R. Slaughter
Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Department of English and Comparative Literature
Professor
Rhiannon Stephens
Professor of History, Department of History
Professor
Zoe S Strother
Riggio Professor of African Art; Jonathan Sobel and Marcia Dunn Program Chair for Art Humanities, Art History & Archaeology
Lecturer
Mariame Sy
Senior Lecturer in Wolof and Pulaar in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
Professor
Jennifer Ann Wenzel
Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Professor of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies