Faculty

Professor of English
Center for African American Studies
860-685-3577

Professor of African American Studies
Center for African American Studies 236
860-685-3577

Chair, African American Studies Program
860-685-3577

Director, Center for African American Studies

Benjamin Waite Professor of the English Language

arushdy@wesleyan.edu

BA University of Alberta
MA University of Alberta
PHD Cambridge University

AFAM301 - 01
Junior Colloquium

ENGL331 - 01
Topics in AFAM Literature

ENGL201B - 01
Ways of Reading: Narrative

Office Hours:
2011-12: Sabbatical/Leave Location: 343 High St (CAAS) #236

Professor of African American Studies
Center for African American Studies 216
860-685-3570

Professor of English
Downey House 216
860-685-3570

Class of 1958 Distinguished Professor

labrown@wesleyan.edu

BA Duke University
PHD Boston College

AFAM222 - 01
Slavery & Literary Imagination

ENGL201M - 01
Ways of Reading: New England

AFAM252 - 01
Writing on the Land of Freedom

ENGL275 - 01
Placing Memory, Rac(e)ing Form

Office Hours:
Wednesdays 1:30 - 3 and by appointment

AB Harvard University
PHD Yale University

AFAM202 - 01
Intro to Afam Literature

AFAM313 - 01
The Black South

ENGL201N - 01
Ways of Reading: TBA

Professor of Religion
171 Church Street
860-685-2289

Professor, African American Studies
860-685-2289

Professor, American Studies
860-685-2289

emcalister@wesleyan.edu

BA Vassar College
MA Yale University
MA Yale University
MPHIL Yale University
PHD Yale University

Personal Homepage:
http://emcalister.faculty.wesleyan.edu/

Office Hours:

Spring 2013:  by appointment

Research Interests:

Associate Professor of Religion Elizabeth McAlister is a specialist in the study of African-based religions in the Americas, with a particular focus on Haiti. Her work addresses the broader issues of religion and the social construction of race. She is the author of Rara! Vodou, Power and Performance in Haiti and its Diaspora (University of California Press, 2002).

Publications:
http://emcalister.faculty.wesleyan.edu/

Associate Professor of Anthropology
Anthropology 24
860-685-3575

Associate Professor of African American Studies
Center for African American Studies
860-685-3575

gulysse@wesleyan.edu

BA Upsala College
MA University of Michigan
PHD University of Michigan

AFAM205 - 01
Key Issues in Black Feminism

ANTH232 - 01
Alter(ed)native Approaches

ANTH210 - 01
Postquake Haiti

Office Hours:
Mondays 10:00- 11:30 (ANTH) or by appt.

Lab URL:
www.ginaathenaulysse.com

Assistant Professor of History
Public Affairs Center 329
860-685-3573

Assistant Professor of African American Studies
Center for African American Studies 230
860-685-3573

lmwright@wesleyan.edu

BA Dartmouth College
MA Princeton University
PHD Princeton University

AFAM204 - 01
Intro to Modern Afam History

HIST309 - 01
Black Political Thought

Personal Homepage:
http://lmwright.faculty.wesleyan.edu/

Office Hours:

ON LEAVE/SABBATICAL FALL 2013

Research Interests:

Leah M. Wright is an Assistant Professor of History & African American Studies at Wesleyan University. She received her B.A. in history from Dartmouth College and her M.A. and Ph.D. in history from Princeton University. Her research interests include 20th Century United States political and social history and modern African American history. Her writing has been published in the Journal of Federal History, Souls, Oxford African American Studies Center Online/African American National Biography, as well as in the anthology Making the South Red: When, Where, Why, and How the South Became Republican. Her research has been supported by fellowships from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Mellon Mays Program, the Social Science Research Council, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the National Archives/Presidential Libraries, and Oberlin College. Currently, she is working on a book, The Loneliness of the Black Conservative: Pragmatic Politics and the Pursuit of Power; her project offers new insight into the relationship between African American politics, the American civil rights movement, and the Republican Party.

Academic Associations:

American Historical Association; Association for the Study of African American Life and History; Organization of American Historians; American Political Science Association; American Studies Association