UMass Boston

Jemadari Kamara
Associate Professor of Africana Studies, College of Liberal Arts
617-287-6793
Jemadari.Kamara@umb.edu
Expertise: Community Development and Public Policy; Black Social Movements; African-American Urban Politics; African-American Intellectual Thought

Elizabeth L. Sweet
Associate Professor of Equitable and Sustainable Development
718.287.5634
Betsy.Sweet@umb.edu

Visiting Faculty

Keith Jones
Visiting Assistant Professor of Africana Studies, College of Liberal Arts
617.287.6792
Keith.Jones@umb.edu
Expertise: Anglophone and African diasporic literatures and cultural production, European- and African-descended literatures of the United States and the Americas, black diaspora and black study, native studies, white settler colonialism, and post-colonial theory, coloniality and decoloniality, gender and queer studies, poetry and poetics, cultural studies and cultural theory, critical theory and critical pedagogy

Lecturers

Patrick King
Associate Lecturer in Africana Studies, College of Liberal Arts
617.287.6790
Patrick.King@umb.edu
Suzanne Morris
Associate Lecturer in Africana Studies, College of Liberal Arts
617.287.6790
Suzanne.Morris@umb.edu

Anthony Van Der Meer
Senior Lecturer II in Africana Studies, College of Liberal Arts
617.287.6255
Tony.Vandermeer@umb.edu
Expertise: Leadership and change, community economic development, traditional African belief systems

Affiliated Faculty

Chinelo Ejueyitchie
Senior Lecturer I in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, College of Liberal Arts
617.287.6779
Chinelo.Ejueyitchie@umb.edu
Expertise: Women's and Gender Issues

Aminah Pilgrim
Senior Lecturer II in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies & Critical Ethnic and Community Studies, College of Liberal Arts
617.287.6792
Aminah.Pilgrim@umb.edu
Expertise: African-American History; African-American Women’s History

Jean Lesly Rene
Lecturer in Africana Studies, College of Liberal Arts
617.287.6790
Jean.Rene@umb.edu