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The Black Studies (BLS) Faculty

We have many professors who study, do research, and teach courses on various aspects of African and African Diaspora Studies; offering a wide variety of courses on Black Studies in their various departments. The BLS Program integrates all such courses and gives them a unifying platform and focus. This is therefore a cross-disciplinary Program that provides a rigorous engagement with the various cultures, politics, religious traditions, literatures, music, visual arts, histories, and contemporary conditions of Africa, the African-American society, and other regions of the African diaspora.

Intellectual and Social Relevance of Black Studies

Through our courses, the BLS Program (a) enables students to cultivate an informed perspective of (i) Africa, its peoples, their histories, cultures and contemporary conditions, and (ii) the African Diaspora/ global Black experience including the United States and Caribbean; (b) broadens the international component of the studies of its students; and (d) fosters debate and awareness of Black issues on the campus, thereby enhancing the visibility and significance of issues of ethnicity, race and cultural diversity as well as cultural similarities.

Black Studies (BLS) Faculty

Mwalim (MJ Peters), MS, MFA
Director of Black Studies (BLS)
Assoc Prof of English
PH: 508.999.8304
FX: 508.999.9235
mpeters@umassd.edu

Affiliate Faculty

Sadhana Bery/ Sociology & Anthropology
Anna Dempsey/ Art History
Shari Evans/ English
John Fobanjong/ Political Science
royal hartigan/ Music
Anna Klobucka/ Portuguese
Lisa Knauer/ Sociology & Anthropology
Mwalim (Morgan James Peters)/ English & Director of Black Studies
Mark Santow/ History
Viviane Saleh-Hanna/ Crime & Social Justice
Bridget Teboh/ History
Tryon Woods/ Crime & Social Justice