Core Faculty
Wendy Laura Belcher
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 2008
Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Literature
133A East Pyne
wbelcher@princeton.edu
Professor Wendy Belcher specializes in medieval, early modern, and modern African literature. Her current research addresses the circulation of African thought in Europe and England before the nineteenth century. She works at the intersection of diaspora, postcolonial, and eighteenth-century studies, theorizing transcultural intertextuality as a form of discursive possession in which African discourse animates representations in the English canon. These scholarly interests emerge from Professor Belcher’s life experiences growing up in East and West Africa, where she became fascinated with the richness of Ghanaian and Ethiopian intellectual traditions. Her other research interests include race and gender in eighteenth-century English literature; rhetorical indirection as a form of resistance in twentieth-century African diasporic novels, and intellectual autobiography. Her teaching focuses on how non-Western literature has participated in a global traffic in invention, pairing texts across national and continental boundaries in order to debunk stereotypes of Africans as peoples without history, texts, or influence until the 1950s. Professor Belcher has published an award-winning memoir about Ghana, is co-editor of volumes on the Chicano personal essay and African politics and development, and has written for such media as the BBC, Salon.com, The Seattle Times, LA Weekly, The San Francisco Bay Guardian, The Ethiopian Review, Index on Censorship, and others.
Selected Publications:
- Honey from the Lion: An African Journey (E. P. Dutton, 1988). Winner of Washington State Governor’s Writers Award; Finalist in the Martha Albrand/PEN Society Award for first book of nonfiction; translated into French by l’Ecole des Loisirs as Le Miel du Lion.
- “After the Freedom: Post-War Cultural Production and National Identity in Eritrea.” Third Text: Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Art and Culture 50 (spring 2000): 87-98.
- “Indirect Resistance: Rhetorical Strategies for Evading Power in Colonial French West African Novels by Camara Laye, Ferdinand Oyono, and Sembene Ousmane.” LIT: Literature, Interpretation, Theory 18, no. 1 (spring 2007): 65-87.
Wallace D. Best
Ph.D., Northwestern University, 2000
Professor, Department of Religion
1879 Hall
609-258-6940
wbest@princeton.edu
Selected Publications:
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Passionately Human, No Less Divine: Religion and Culture in Black Chicago, 1915-1952 (Princeton University Press, 2005).
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“The Right Achieved and the Wrong Way Conquered”: J. H. Jackson, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Conflict over Civil Rights, Religion and American Culture, 16 (Summer 2006).
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“The Spirit of the Holy Ghost is a Male Spirit”: African American Preaching Women and the Paradoxes of Gender in Women and Religion in the African Diaspora: Knowledge, Power, and Performance, eds., R. Marie Griffith and Barbara Dianne Savage (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006).
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“The South and the City: Black Southern Migrants, Storefront Churches, and the Rise of a Religious Diaspora,” in Repositioning North American Migration History: New Directions in Modern Continental Migration, Citizenship and Community, ed., Marc S. Rodriguez (University of Rochester Press, 2004).
Daphne Brooks
Ph.D., University of California-Los Angeles, 1997
Associate Professor, Department of English
32A McCosh Hall
609-258-4068
brooksd@princeton.edu
Daphne A. Brooks is a specialist in African-American literature and culture, performance studies, cultural studies, and popular music culture. Her research interests include nineteenth-century African-American literature; black theatre history & culture; popular music Studies; black satire; African-American literary & cultural theory; black feminist criticism and Theory; and contemporary black bohemian culture. Professor Brooks is the recipient of the 2007 Errol Hill Award for outstanding scholarship in African American Theater Studies (for her book Bodies in Dissent). She is also the recipient of the Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement, the U.C. President's post-doctoral fellowship and was a fellow at the W.E.B. DuBois Institute at Harvard University. She serves as Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Center of African American Studies.
Selected Publications:
- Bodies in Dissent: Spectacular Performances of Race and Freedom, 1850-1910 (Duke University Press, 2006)
- Jeff Buckley's Grace (33 1/3) (Continuum Books, 2005)
- The Great Escapes: The Narratives of William Wells Brown, Henry Box Brown, and William Craft, (New York: Barnes & Noble Classics, 2007)
- “ ‘All That You Can't Leave Behind’: Surrogation & Black Female Soul Singing in the Age of Catastrophe,” Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism 8.1 (2008).
- “Fraudulent Bodies/Fraught Methodologies,” Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 24.2 (2007): 306-314.
- “The End of the Line: Josephine Baker and the Politics of Black Women’s Corporeal Comedy,” The Scholar & Feminist Online: The Barnard Center for Research on Women 6.1-6.2 (Fall 2007-Spring 2008): http://www.barnard.edu/sfonline/
- “Suga Mama Politicized: Beyonce’s B-Day,” The Nation.com, December 18, 2006
- “Burnt Sugar: Post-Soul Satire and Rock Memory, ”This is Pop: Critical Essays from the First Annual Experience Music Project Conference on Popular Music, ed. Eric Weisbard (Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2004): 124-146
- “‘It’s Not Right But It’s Okay’: Contemporary Black Women’s R&B and the House that Terry McMillan Built,” SOULS: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society (5:1), Winter 2003: 32-45. Reprinted in ed. Manning Marable, The New Black Renaissance (Columbia UP, forthcoming)
- “‘The Deeds Done in My Body’: Black Feminist Theory, Performance, and the Truth About Adah Isaacs Menken,” Recovering the Body: Self Representations by African American Women Writers, eds. Michael Bennett and Vanessa Dickerson (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2000): 41-70
- “Lady Menken’s Secret: Adah Isaacs Menken, Actress Biographies, & the Race for Sensation,” Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 15.1 (1998): 68-77.
Recent Courses Taught:
- Eng 370/AAS 370-- Like a Rolling Stone: Race, Gender, Rock Music Criticism & Popular Music Culture
- Eng 375/AAS 375: Bring the Pain: The Politics & Poetics of Black Satire
- AAS 500/Eng 500 Black Feminist Theory & Practice: New Interdisciplinary Directions (w/Prof. Valerie Smith)
- ENG 572/AAS 572-- Through the Wire: A Survey of African-American Literary & Cultural Criticism
- AAS 392/Eng 392: Survey of African American Theater
- AAS 212/ENG 207 - Black Bohemia: Racial Authenticity in Post Civil Rights Music and Literature
- AAS 207/ENG 207 - Introduction to African American Literature
Anne Cheng
Ph.D, University of California-Berkeley
Professor, Department of English
49 McCosh Hall
609-258-4054
aacheng@princeton.edu
Professor Anne Anlin Cheng specializes in race studies and psychoanalytic theory and works in 20th-century American literature, with special focus on Asian American and African American literatures. She is the author of The Melancholy of Race: Assimilation, Psychoanalysis, and Hidden Grief, which examines the notion of racial grief at the intersection of culture, history, and law. From Toni Morrison to Maxine Hong Kingston, from Ralph Ellison to David Henry Hwang, from Anna Deavere Smith to Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, The Melancholy of Race studies how writers and artists of color contribute to our understanding of racial injury – not by simply reflecting that fact but by exploring the complex etiology of racism and the education of desire that it instills in both dominant and minority subjects. Professor Cheng is currently working on the ethical challenges behind the ideal of democratic recognition and this predicament’s historic roots at the intersection of American Primitivism and Orientalism.
Professor Cheng received her master's in creative writing and English from Stanford University and her Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of California–Berkeley. She has taught a wide range of courses at Harvard University and the University of California–Berkeley, on topics such as literary theory, cultural studies, race and gender studies, psychoanalytic theory, postcolonial theory, film studies, poetry, and poetics.
Selected Publications:
- The Melancholy of Race: Assimilation, Psychoanalysis, and Hidden Grief (Oxford University Press, 2000)
- “Josephine Baker: Taste, Psychoanalysis, and the Colonial Fetish,” Psychoanalytic Quarterly (LXXV, 2006)
- “Passing into Objecthood,” The Afterlife: Politics, Knowledge and Experience after Identity, eds. Ben Lee, Heather Love, and Mike Millner (2006)
- “Passing, Natural Selection, and Love’s Failed Civility: Ethics of Survival from Chang-rae Lee to Jacques Lacan,” American Literary History (17:3, 2005)
- “Ralph Ellison and the Politics of Melancholia,” The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Ellison, ed. Ross Posnock (2005)
Eddie Glaude Jr.
Ph.D., Princeton University
William S. Tod Professor of Religion and African American Studies, Department of Religion
232 1879 Hall
Professor Eddie Glaude's research interests include American pragmatism, specifically the work of John Dewey, and African American religious history and its place in American public life. He is the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards, including the 2002 Modern Language Association William Sanders Scarborough Prize for his book Exodus! Professor Glaude's work also includes African-American Religious Thought: An Anthology, (2004) co-edited with Cornel West.
Selected Publications:
- Exodus! Religion, Race, and Nation in Early 19th Century Black America (University of Chicago Press, 2000)
- Is it Nation Time? Contemporary Essays on Black Power and Black Nationalism (University of Chicago Press, 2002)
- In a Shade of Blue: Pragmatism and the Politics of Black America (University of Chicago Press, 2007)
Recent Courses Taught:
- AAS 321/REL 321 - Black Power and Its Theology of Liberation
- AAS 282/REL 282 - Religion in Black America: The Twentieth Century
- REL 501 - Religion and the Tradition of Social Theory
Joshua Guild
Ph.D., Yale University 2007
Assistant Professor, Department of History
204 Dickinson Hall
609-258-0553
jguild@princeton.edu
Professor Joshua Guild specializes in 20th-century African American history, with a particular emphasis on urban communities and the making of the modern African diaspora. His dissertation is a comparative study of African American and Caribbean migrations and the politics of black community formation in postwar New York and London. His research and teaching interests include American urban history, comparative racial and ethnic formations, black social movements and black popular music.
Professor Guild has been the recipient of fellowships from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, and the Paul Mellow Centre for Studies in British Art. During the 2005-06 academic year, he was the Thurgood Marshall Dissertation Fellow at Dartmouth College. He will receive his Ph.D. in African American studies and history from Yale University in 2007.
Melissa Harris-Lacewell
Ph.D., Duke University; B.A., Wake Forest University
Associate Professor, Department of Politics
034 Corwin Hall
609-258-9171
lacewell@princeton.edu
Professor Melissa Harris-Lacewell is an associate professor of politics and African American studies at Princeton. She is the author of Barbershops, Bibles, and BET: Everyday Talk and Black Political Thought, (Princeton 2004), which demonstrates how African Americans develop political ideas through ordinary conversations in places like barbershops, churches, and popular culture, and which won both the 2005 W.E.B DuBois book award from the National Conference of Black Political Scientists and the 2005 Best Book Award from the Race and Ethnic Politics Section of the American Political Science Association. She is at work on a new book: For Colored Girls Who've Considered Politics When Being Strong Wasn't Enough. It is an examination of the Connections between shame, sadness and strength in African American women's politics.
In addition to scholarly publications, Professor Harris-Lacewell's writings have been published in the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Crain's Chicago Business and New York Newsday. She has provided expert commentary on U.S. elections, racial issues, religious questions and gender issues for NBC, Fox, Chicago Public Television, Showtime, Black Enterprise, National Public Radio and many other radio and print sources around the country.
Selected Publications:
Harris-Lacewell, Melissa. 2004. Barbershops, Bibles, and B.E.T: Everyday Talk and Black Political Thought. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Winner:
• 2005 W.E.B DuBois Book Award from National Conference of Black Political Scientists
• 2005 Best Book Award from the Race and Ethnic Politics Section of the American Political
Science Association.
Harris-Lacewell, Melissa. Political Science and the Study of African American Public Opinion. 2007. African American Perspectives on Political Science. Wilbur Rich: Editor. Temple University Press.
Harris-Lacewell, Melissa. 2007. Do You Know what it Means…Mapping Emotion in the Aftermath of Katrina. Souls. Volume 9, Number 1.
Recent Courses Taught:
- AAS350/POL338/ENV350 African American Studies: Environmental Justice
- AAS368/REL368/POL424 Topics in African American religion: Black Religion and Black Political Thought
- AAS 343/POL Introduction to African American Politics
Angel Harris
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
106 Wallace Hall
angelh@princeton.edu
Professor Angel Harris’ interests are on how perceptions about the opportunity structure and the system of social mobility influence the extent to which people invest in schooling. His research focuses on the social psychological determinants of the racial achievement gap. Specifically, he examines factors that contribute to African Americans' lower academic achievement and Asian Americans' higher academic achievement relative to Whites. Professor Harris joins Princeton University after spending a year at the University of Texas at Austin. He received his Ph.D. in Public Policy and Sociology at the University of Michigan, where he received the Rackham Graduate School Distinguished Dissertation Award.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Studies on Education
• Harris, Angel L. (2006) "I (Don't) Hate School: Revisiting Oppositional Culture Theory of Blacks' Resistance to Schooling." Social Forces 85: 797-834.
• Harris, Angel L., and Keith Robinson. (2007). "Schooling Behaviors or Prior Skills?: A Cautionary Tale of Omitted Variable Bias within the Oppositional Culture Theory" Sociology of Education 80: 139-57.
• Chavous, Tabbye M., Angel Harris, Deborah Rivas, Lumas Helaire, and Laurette Green. (2004). "Racial Stereotypes and Gender in Context: African Americans at Predominantly Black and Predominantly White Colleges." Sex Roles 51: 1-16.
Studies on Adolescent Development/Racial Identity
• Mahoney, Joseph L., Angel L. Harris, and Jacquelynne S. Eccles. (2006). "Organized Activity Participation, Positive Youth Development and the Over-Scheduling Hypothesis." Social Policy Report, 20 (4):3-30. http://www.srcd.org/spr.html
• Lacy, Karyn and Angel L. Harris, "Breaking the Class Monolith: Understanding Class Differences in Black Adolescents' Attachment to Racial Identity." In Dalton Conley, David Grusky, Mike Hout, and Annette Lareau (eds.), Social Class: How does it Work? New York: Russell Sage Foundation Press (Forthcoming).
Tera Hunter
Professor, Department of History
110 Dickinson Hall
609-258-8904
Tera W. Hunter is a scholar of U. S. history, with specializations in African-Americans, gender, labor, and the South. She is particularly interested in the history of slavery and freedom. She is currently writing a book on African-American marriages in the nineteenth century. Her first book received several prizes including the H. L. Mitchell Award from the Southern Historical Association, the Letitia Brown Memorial Book Prize from the Association of Black Women’s Historians, and the Book of the Year Award from the International Labor History Association. She was a Mary I. Bunting Institute Fellow, at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, 2005-2006. She received her B. A. from Duke University and Ph.D. from Yale University.
Selected Publications:
- To 'Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors After the Civil War (Harvard University Press, 1997).
- Co-edited with Sandra Gunning and Michele Mitchell, Dialogues of Dispersal: Gender, Sexuality and African Diasporas (Blackwell Publishing, 2004)
- Co-edited with Joe W. Trotter and Earl Lewis, African American Urban Studies: Perspectives from the Colonial Period to the Present (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004)
Noliwe Rooks
Associate Director, Center for African American Studies
Ph.D., University of Iowa
Teaching and research interests: The study of class and gender in African American communities during the late 19th and 20th centuries, as well as African American history more broadly defined.
Selected Authored Publications:
- Hair Raising: Beauty, Culture and African American Women, London and New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1996. (Winner, Choice awardfor Outstanding Academic Book, 1997 and selected by the Public LibraryAssociation as an Outstanding University Press Book, 1997).
- Ladies' Pages: African American Women's Magazines and the Culture That Made Them, London and New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2004.
- White Money/Black Power: The History of African American Studies and the Crisis of Race in Higher Education, Boston: Beacon Press, 2006.
- Associate Editor: Paris Connections: African American Artists in Paris, 1920-1975, San Francisco: Q.E.D. Press, 1992 (Winner, 1993 American Book Award).
- Editor: Black Women's Studies: A Reader, New York: ProQuest Publishing and the Schomburg Center for Research in African American Culture, 2005.
Recent Courses Taught:
- AAS 388 - Introduction to Black Popular Culture
- AAS/AMS 356 - Migration, Urban Space and African American Culture
- AAS/WMS 311 - Intro to Black Women's Studies
Chika Okeke-Agulu
Assistant Professor
Art and Archaeology Department
Ph.D, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, 2004
cokekeag@princeton.edu
Chika Okeke-Agulu specializes on classical, modern, and contemporary African art history and theory. He previously taught at The Pennsylvania State University, Emory University , University of Nigeria , Nsukka, and Yaba College of Technology, Lagos . In 2006, he edited the first ever issue of African Arts dedicated to African modernism, and has published articles and reviews in African Arts, Meridians: Feminism, Race, Internationalism, Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, Art South Africa and Glendora Review. He contributed to edited volumes such as Reading the Contemporary: African Art from Theory to the Marketplace, The Nsukka Artists and Contemporary Nigerian Art, and The Grove Dictionary of Art. Professor Okeke-Agulu is a recipient of the Arts Council of the African Studies Association Outstanding Dissertation triennial award (2007). In 2007, Professor Okeke-Agulu was appointed the Robert Sterling Clark Visiting Professor of Art History at Williams College , and Fellow at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. He is also on the faculty of the Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University .
Recent Publications:
“Venice and Contemporary African Art,” (First Word), African Arts 40:3 (2007), pp. 1, 4-5; “Benin Sculpture in Modern (Nigerian) Art,” in Barbara Plankensteiner (ed.), Benin Kings and Rituals: Court Arts from Nigeria. Ghent: Snoeck Publishers, pp. 263-267; “Politics by other means: Two Egyptian Artists, Gazbia Sirry and Ghada Amer,” Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism 6:2 (2006), pp. 117-149; “ Nationalism and the Rhetoric of modernism in Nigeria: the Art of Uche Okeke and Demas Nwoko, 1960-1968,” African Arts 39:1 (2006), pp. 26-37, 92-93; “Art History and Globalization,” in James Elkins (ed.), Is Art History Global: The Art Seminar. London : Routledge, pp. 202-207; “Childhood Masking in Umuahia and Umuoji,” in Simon Ottenberg and David A. Binkley (eds.), Playful Performers: African Children’s Masquerades. New Brunswick , NJ : Transaction Books, pp. 159-164.
Recent courses taught:
- (ART 472) Seminar on Igbo and Yoruba Art
- (AAS 411/ART 471) Art, Apartheid and South Africa
- Art and the Lifecycle in Africa
- African Art After WWII
Carolyn Rouse
Ph.D., University of Southern California, 1999
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
103 Aaron Burr Hall
609-258-4556
crouse@princeton.edu
Professor Carolyn Rouse specializes in medical anthropology, visual anthropology, resistance, critical race theory and consciousness. She has done extensive fieldwork with African American converts to Sunni Islam, as well as with children and adolescents who have long term illnesses and/or disabilities. In addition to her published works, she has produced, directed and/or edited a number of documentaries including Chicks in White Satin (1994), a film about a lesbian wedding; and Purification to Prozac: Treating Mental Illness in Bali (1998). She is currently finishing a book on the American sickle cell disease community, The Politics of Uncertain Suffering, Race and Medicine. Professor Rouse teaches in both anthropology and African American studies.
Selected Publications:
- Engaged Surrender: African American Women and Islam (University of California Press-Berkeley, 2004)
Recent Courses Taught:
- AAS 430 - Locating the Individual in Black Cultural Studies of Power
- AAS 403/ANT 403 - Race and Medicine
Stacey Sinclair
PhD, UCLA
Associate Professor of Psychology
Professor Sinclair is interested in how participating in interpersonal interactions shapes individuals’ self-understanding and evaluations of others, with a focus on outcomes related to ethnic and gender stereotyping, prejudice and discrimination. In one line of research she shows that individuals’ stereotype-relevant self-views are shaped by the apparent beliefs of others. Individuals will engage in self-stereotyping when they want to get along with someone who seems to think stereotypes of their group are true – even if doing so may have non-relational negative consequences. A second line of research shows that although people can not consciously control their level of implicit prejudice, this form of prejudice can shift as a function of fleeting interpersonal interactions. A final line of research examines the impact of contact with members of other ethnic groups, and one’s own ethnic group, on one’s degree of prejudice. Overall, her work suggests interpersonal interactions are a vehicle by which cultural phenomena (e.g., stereotypes, prejudice) become individual thought
Professor Sinclair received her PhD in Social Psychology from UCLA. She has received grants/fellowships from the National Science Foundation, National Institute of Mental Health, the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues and the Templeton Foundation.
Selected Publications:
Lun, J., Sinclair, S., Glenn, C. & Whitchurch, E. (2007). (Why) Do I think what you think: Epistemic social tuning and implicit prejudice, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 93, 957-972, 151-157.
Sinclair, S., Hardin, C. & Lowery, B. (2006). Self-stereotyping in the context of multiple social identities, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 90, 529-542 .
Sinclair, S., Huntsinger, J., Skorinko, J. & Hardin, C.D. (2005). Social tuning of the self: Consequences for the self-evaluations of stereotype targets, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 89, 160 – 175.
Sinclair, S., Lowery. B., Hardin, C. & Colangelo, A. (2005). Social tuning of automatic attitudes: The role of affiliative motivation, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 89, 583 – 592.
van Laar, C., Levin, & S., Sinclair, S., Sidanius, J. (2005). The effect of college roommate contact on ethnic attitudes and behavior, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 41, 329 - 345.
Levin, S., Sinclair, S., Veniegas, R. & Taylor, P. (2002). Perceived discrimination in the context of multiple social identities. Psychological Science, 13, 557 – 560.
Valerie Smith
Ph.D., University of Virginia
Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature, Department of English and Director, Center for African American Studies
15 McCosh Hall
609-258-4087
vasmith@princeton.edu
Professor Valerie Smith returned to Princeton from UCLA in 2001 and is the director of the Center for African American Studies. She is a specialist in African American literature and culture, with specific interests in black feminist theory and film studies. She received a Guggenheim Felllowship in 2005-06 and an Alphonse G. Fletcher, Sr. Fellowship in 2006-07. At present, she is completing a book on the Civil Rights Movement in cultural memory.
Selected Publications:
- Self-Discovery and Authority in Afro-American Narrative (Harvard University Press, 1987)
- Not Just Race, Not Just Gender: Black Feminist Readings (Routledge, 1998)
- ed., African American Writers (Scribners, 1991)
- ed., New Essays on Song of Solomon (Cambridge University Press, 1994)
- ed., Representing Blackness: Issues in Film and Video (Rutgers University Press, 1997)
Recent Courses Taught:
- ENG 389/AAS 389 - Women Writers of the African Diaspora
- ENG 556 - Religion and African American Autobiography
- ENG 365/AAS 365 - Topics in American Literature: Literature of the Civil Rights Movement
Alexandra Vazquez
Assistant Professor
English Department
McCosh Hall, Rm. 22
Ph.D, New York University, 2006
Professor Alexandra Vazquez’s research and teaching interests focus on performance studies, U.S. Latina/o Studies, cultures of the African diaspora, transnational feminist theory, and Latin/o American literature and criticism, with an emphasis on the Hispanophone Caribbean. Before coming to Princeton, Vazquez was a Postdoctoral Associate in the Program in Ethnicity, Race, and Migration at Yale University and lecturer at the Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music at New York University. Vazquez received her PhD from the Department of Performance Studies at New York University.
Publications:
- Instrumental Migrations: The Critical Turns of Cuban Music (under contract with Duke University Press).
- La Yiyiyi: Impacts of La Lupe, co-editor with Ela Troyano (under review with Duke University Press).
- “Una Escuela Rara: Havana Meets Harlem in Montmartre,” Women and Performance: a journal of feminist theory, Vol. 16, No. 1, March 2006.
- “Salon Philosophers: Ivy Queen and Surprise Guests Take Reggaetón Aside,” in Reading Reggaeton: Historical, Aesthetic and Critical Perspectives, eds. Deborah Pacini-Hernandez, Wayne Marshall, and Raquel Z. Rivera. (Durham: Duke University Press, forthcoming 2009).
- Review of Marta Elena Savigliano’s Angora Matta, A tango-opera: Fatal Acts of North-South Translation, Dance Research Journal, Vol. 37, No. 2, Winter 2005.
- Review of Jill Lane’s Blackface Cuba 1840-1895, e-misférica: Performance and Politics in the Americas, Fall 2006.
Courses offered:
Fall ’08: Latina/o Performance
Cornel West
Ph.D., Princeton University, 1980
Class of 1943 University Professor in the Center for African American Studies
609-258-0021
maryannr@princeton.edu
Professor Cornel West returned to Princeton in 2002. He served as director of the Program in African American Studies from 1988 to 1994. His teaching and research interests include the philosophy of religion and cultural criticism, and his current research focuses on an examination of the cultural nexus between Anton Chekov and John Coltrane and a book entitled The Tragic, the Comic, and the Political.
Selected Publications:
- Prophesy Deliverance: An Afro-American Revolutionary Christianity (Westminster John Knox, 1982)
- Prophetic Fragments: Illuminations of the Crisis in American Religion and Culture (Eerdmans, 1988)
- The American Evasion of Philosophy: A Genealogy of Pragmatism (University of Wisconsin Press, 1989)
- The Ethical Dimensions of Marxist Thought (Monthly Review Press, 1991)
- Race Matters (Beacon, 1993)
- Keeping Faith (Routledge, 1994)
- The Future of the Race (Random House, 1997) (Henry Louis Gates Jr., co-author)
- The Cornel West Reader (Basic Civitas, 2000)
- Democracy Matters (Penguin Press, 2004)
Recent Courses Taught:
- AAS/REL 369 - The Religious, Dimensions of Du Bois, Baldwin and Morrison
- REL 507 - Studies in Religion and Philosophy: Hegel and His Influence