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Department of African and African Diaspora Studies: professors and courses

Course codes AFR, RIM, YOR

Who teaches here

Department of African and African Diaspora Studies professors and instructors
NameTeaches
Professors · 53
Adebimpe A Adegbite Evaluations CVAssistant professor of instructionLinguistic Anthropology · Language Maintenance and Revitalization · Language Pedagogy · Sociolinguistics
AFR 340V, YOR 601C, YOR 611C
Omoniyi Afolabi Evaluations CVProfessorAfro-Brazilian Cultural Studies · Yoruba Diaspora Studies · Lusophone African Literature · Comparative African Diaspora Studies
AFR 304, AFR 340
Bedour Alagraa CVAssistant professorPolitical theory · Caribbean political thought · Black Marxism(s) · African anti-colonial thought
AFR 385C
Andrew Britt Evaluations CVAssistant professorBrazil · the Black diaspora · especially in Latin America · digital humanities
AFR 310, AFR 370
Anthony L Brown CVProfessor
No classes listed this year
Keffrelyn D Brown EvaluationsCVProfessor
AFR 352F
Simone Arlene Browne CVAssociate professor
No classes listed this year
Rikki Byrd CVAssistant professor
AFR 310
Charlotte Canning CVProfessor
No classes listed this year
Michael Ray Charles Evaluations CVProfessorBlack Representation in Advertising and Entertainment · Racial Stereotypes · American Minstrelsy and its Origins · Art and Visual Culture
AFR 335J, AFR 335L
Danielle P ClealandAssociate professorAfro-Latino politics and identity · group consciousness · Black and Latino public opinion and racial inequality · migration
No classes listed this year
Amira Rose Davis Evaluations CVAssistant professor
AFR 315K, AFR 315P
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Department of African and African Diaspora Studies professors and instructors, continued
NameTeaches
Professors · 53
Oloruntoyin O Falola EvaluationsCVProfessor
AFR 310K, AFR 315G, AFR 340F, AFR 345C
Nessette Falu Evaluations CVAssociate professorGynecology · structural violence · reproductive justice · race
AFR 360M, AFR 376
Caroline Faria Evaluations CVAssociate professorFeminist political and economic geographies · feminist methodologies · Africa and the African diaspora
AFR 340M
Ashley Farmer CVAssociate professorAfrican American History · African American Women’s History · Black Political Thought
AFR 315K, AFR 360D
Kevin M Foster Evaluations CVAssociate professorEducation Policy · Student Achievement
AFR 358F, AFR 358K, AFR 370
Maria FranklinProfessorHistorical archaeology · public archaeology · race and gender · feminist anthropology
No classes listed this year
Lyndon K Gill Evaluations CVAssociate professorQueer aesthetics in the African Diaspora · the erotic · LGBT art and activism in Caribbean cultures · African-based spiritual traditions in the Americas
AFR 315Q, AFR 345F, AFR 350J
Edmund T Gordon Evaluations CVProfessorCulture and Power in the African Diaspora · Social History of Central Texas · Circum-Caribbean Economies of Space and Resources
AFR 320C, AFR 370, RIM 320C
Ishan E Gordon-Garth Evaluations CVAssistant professor of instruction
AFR 303, AFR 320C, AFR 320T, RIM 301, RIM 320C
Laurie B Green Evaluations CVAssociate professor
AFR 316C
Terrance L GreenAssociate professor
No classes listed this year
Chantal Annise Hailey CVAssistant professorrace and ethnicity · stratification · urban sociology · education
No classes listed this year
AFR 302D
Yasmiyn Irizarry CVAssociate professor
AFR 321L
Monica A Jimenez Evaluations CVAssociate professorHistory of empire · law and race · 20th Century nationalist movements · racialization in the Caribbean
AFR 345O, AFR 350K, AFR 360, RIM 350
AFR 315I, AFR 357C
Stephen H Marshall CVAssociate professorPolitical Theory · American Social and Political Thought · African-American political thought
AFR 350D
Jossianna Arroyo Martinez EvaluationsCVProfessor
AFR 330
Gesel Mason CVProfessor
No classes listed this year
Robin D Moore CVProfessor
No classes listed this year
Chelsi West OhueriAssistant professor
No classes listed this year
Moyosore Benjamin Okediji EvaluationsCVProfessor
AFR 335C, AFR 335E, AFR 335G
Marcelo Paixao Evaluations CVAssociate professorDevelopment and Underdevelopment in Brazil · Latin America · and Developing Countries · Racial Inequality
T C 358, UGS 303
Samantha Nicole PintoProfessorfeminist · gender · and sexuality theory · African American and African diaspora literature
No classes listed this year
Dina Inman Ramgolam EvaluationsCVAssistant professor of instruction
AFR 301, AFR 360F, AFR 375
Richard J Reddick CVProfessor
No classes listed this year
Ashante M Reese CVAssociate professorCritical food studies and food justice · plantation geographies · Black geographies · abolition
AFR 352P
Lilia Rosas Evaluations CVAssistant professor of instructionAfrican Americans · women · race and sexuality · indigeneity and the Borderlands/U.S. West
AFR 325C, RIM 378
Celina Aisha Davidson de Sa EvaluationsCVAssistant professor
AFR 331C, AFR 340W
Sandro Sessarego CVProfessorAfro-Hispanic linguistics · language variation · and the African Diaspora in Latin America
No classes listed this year
Allison SkerrettProfessor
No classes listed this year
Cherise SmithProfessorAmerican Art After 1945 · The Intersection of Art with Race and Gender · African American Art and Visual Culture · Performance and Conceptual Art Practices
No classes listed this year
Eric Tang CVAssociate professorThe Politics and Poetics of Displacement · Urban Unrest · Activism · Solidarities
AFR 360F
Ashley Coleman Taylor CVAssistant professor
No classes listed this year
Lisa B ThompsonProfessorAfrican American literature (1945-present) · Black theatre · memoir · performance studies
No classes listed this year
Shirley E Thompson CVAssociate professorAfrican American and African Diaspora Studies · Nineteenth Century US Cultural History · Law and Literature · Slavery and Post-Emancipation Cultures
AFR 360
Pavithra Vasudevan CVAssistant professor
AFR 351U
Patrick F Walter Evaluations CVAssociate professor of instructionAfrican American Literature and Popular Culture · Film and Visual Studies · Marxism · Psychoanalysis
AFR 330W, AFR 331E, AFR 331F, AFR 360R
Jennifer M Wilks CVAssociate professorComparative African American and Caribbean literatures · contemporary African diasporic literature · Francophone literature and culture · women’s and gender studies
No classes listed this year
Helena Woodard CVProfessor18th century British literature · ethnic and Third World literature · american literature · critical race theory
AFR 330J
No classes listed this year
Lecturers and instructors · 5
Allison Robin Kim CVLecturer
No classes listed this year
Ricardo H Lowe Jr CVLecturer
AFR 302M
Mohit P Mehta CVLecturer
AAS 325J, ANS 372P, HIS 365G, WGS 340
Lydia Okabe CVLecturer
UGS 303
Phillip Townsend CVLecturerModern and Contemporary Art · Art and Visual Culture of the African Diaspora · Politics of Identity · BIPOC Representational Strategies
AFR 335Q
Graduate and other instructors · 2
Alia Hudroge CV
AFR 315T
Natalie Zelt EvaluationsCV
AFR 335T

Who teaches each course

Department of African and African Diaspora Studies: who teaches each course
CourseTaught by
AAS 325JMohit P Mehta
AFR 301Dina Inman Ramgolam
AFR 302DNneka R Ibekwe-Okafor
AFR 302MRicardo H Lowe Jr
AFR 303Ishan E Gordon-Garth
AFR 304Omoniyi Afolabi
AFR 310Andrew Britt, Rikki Byrd
AFR 310KOloruntoyin O Falola
AFR 315GOloruntoyin O Falola
AFR 315ITalitha L LeFlouria
AFR 315KAmira Rose Davis, Ashley Farmer
AFR 315PAmira Rose Davis
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Department of African and African Diaspora Studies: who teaches each course, continued
CourseTaught by
AFR 315QLyndon K Gill
AFR 315TAlia Hudroge
AFR 316CLaurie B Green
AFR 320CEdmund T Gordon, Ishan E Gordon-Garth
AFR 320TIshan E Gordon-Garth
AFR 321LYasmiyn Irizarry
AFR 325CLilia Rosas
AFR 330Jossianna Arroyo Martinez
AFR 330JHelena Woodard
AFR 330WPatrick F Walter
AFR 331CCelina Aisha Davidson de Sa
AFR 331EPatrick F Walter
AFR 331FPatrick F Walter
AFR 335CMoyosore Benjamin Okediji
AFR 335EMoyosore Benjamin Okediji
AFR 335GMoyosore Benjamin Okediji
AFR 335JMichael Ray Charles
AFR 335LMichael Ray Charles
AFR 335QPhillip Townsend
AFR 335TNatalie Zelt
AFR 340Omoniyi Afolabi
AFR 340FOloruntoyin O Falola
AFR 340MCaroline Faria
AFR 340VAdebimpe A Adegbite
AFR 340WCelina Aisha Davidson de Sa
AFR 345COloruntoyin O Falola
AFR 345FLyndon K Gill
AFR 345OMonica A Jimenez
AFR 350DStephen H Marshall
AFR 350JLyndon K Gill
AFR 350KMonica A Jimenez
AFR 351UPavithra Vasudevan
AFR 352FKeffrelyn D Brown
AFR 352PAshante M Reese
AFR 357CTalitha L LeFlouria
AFR 358FKevin M Foster
AFR 358KKevin M Foster
AFR 360Monica A Jimenez, Shirley E Thompson
AFR 360DAshley Farmer
AFR 360FDina Inman Ramgolam, Eric Tang
AFR 360MNessette Falu
AFR 360RPatrick F Walter
AFR 370Andrew Britt, Kevin M Foster, Edmund T Gordon
AFR 375Dina Inman Ramgolam
AFR 376Nessette Falu
AFR 385CBedour Alagraa
ANS 372PMohit P Mehta
HIS 365GMohit P Mehta
RIM 301Ishan E Gordon-Garth
RIM 320CEdmund T Gordon, Ishan E Gordon-Garth
RIM 350Monica A Jimenez
RIM 378Lilia Rosas
T C 358Marcelo Paixao
UGS 303Marcelo Paixao, Lydia Okabe
WGS 340Mohit P Mehta
YOR 601CAdebimpe A Adegbite
YOR 611CAdebimpe A Adegbite
Bachelor’s degrees1 program
Master’s degrees1 program
Doctoral degrees1 program
Pay after graduationUp to $57,300
Median pay after graduation by field
Field of study1 year out4 years out
Ethnic, Cultural Minority, Gender, and Group StudiesBachelor’s · African and African diaspora studies$41,500$57,300

Median earnings of graduates who received federal student aid, from the U.S. Department of Education’s College Scorecard: 1 year out is 2020–21 pay (2022 dollars), 4 years out is 2019–20 pay (2021 dollars). Fields group related programs.

About the department

Department of African and African Diaspora Studies is part of College of Liberal Arts, led by Dean David Sosa. Its course codes are AFR, RIM and YOR.

SourcesUT catalog, HB 2504

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