Dr. Walter Allen

• Professor of Education
• Co-Director of CHOICES – A longitudinal study on college attendance, academic experiences and choices among Black and Latino Students

• Professor of Social History of Modern Art
• He’s a firm believer of stimulating the mind to independent thought through exposure to the visual products of inventive human beings unafraid of unrestricted openness to experience.

• Professor, Dept. of Ethnomusicology
• Professor Burrell is a guitarist, composer, and one of the most respected jazz artists in the world.
• He’s a foremost authority on the music of Duke Ellington and has taught “Ellingtonia” at UCLA for over 23 years

• Professor at the UCLA School of Law and Director of Critical Race Studies Concentration.
• In 2003, he was the recipient of the Rutter Award for Excellence in Teaching.
• His current research examines African-American responses to the internment of Japanese Americans.

• Professor, School of Law
• Teaches Civil Rights and other courses in Critical Race Studies and Constitutional Law.
• Her scholarly interests center around race and the law.
• She was a founder and has been a leader in the intellectual movement called ‘Critical Race Theory’.

• Professor, Ethnomusicology and Director of Ethnomusicology Archive
• Twice an award recipient from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and has served as panelist for the Folk Arts Program for the organization.
• She’s interested in how the dynamics of urban life give rise to change and other musical activity.

• Associate Vice-Chancellor, Community Partnerships; Professor at the Dept. of Political Science; Faculty Research Associate, Bunche Center for African American Studies; Director of the Center for Communications and Community at UCLA
• He’s been published in numerous academic and popular journals on the topics of strategic communication, racial politics, and urban politics.

• Since 1969, Professor Gomez-Quiñones has been active in higher education, culture promotion and Chicano Studies effort.
• He specializes in the fields of political, labor, intellectual, and cultural history, recognized community organizer, and planner.

• Professor of Psychological Studies in Education
• She’s a member of the MacArthur Foundation Network on Adolescent Development and Juvenile Justice.
• She’s a Principal Investigator on grants from the National Science Foundation and the W.T. Grant Foundation.
• Her research interests include cognitive approaches to motivation, the development of attributional processes, motivation African-American, and peer-directed aggression and victimization.

• Professor, Dept. of Urban Planning; Director, Advanced Policy Institute; Founder of The Planning Group, an urban planning and consulting firm.
• Internationally recognized expert in urban development strategies.
• His research focuses on urban housing, land use, and economic development strategies.

• Professor, School of Law
• She teaches Constitutional Law, Civil Rights, Employment Discrimination, and other courses concerning race and the law.
• Her publications focus mainly on property and critical race theory.

• Professor, Dept. of History; Faculty Research Associate, Bunche Center for African American Studies
• He’s a renowned lecturer and author.
• **Marcus Garvey Papers**

• Director, Bunche Center; Professor, Sociology
• His current research explores the representation of African Americans on prime-time television.

• Professor, Political Science; Director, Globalization Research Center - Africa
• His current research examines democratic consolidation and reversal in Africa.

• Chair, French & Francophone Studies
• Her research interests range from comparative and francophone literatures, post-colonial studies, and race and gender studies.

• Professor, Clinical Psychology; Director, Black C.A.R.E.
• She specializes in research ranging from minority mental health, psychosocial aspects of AIDS, health status, and health beliefs of women and ethnic minorities.

• Vice-Chancellor, Graduate Division; Dean of Graduate Studies; Professor, Anthropology; Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
• Served as Director for Afro-American Studies at UCLA for 13 years.
• Her current research is related to family foundation among African-Americans and sexual decision-making among Jamaicans and women in LA.

• Professor, Dept. of History; Professor, School of Public Policy and Social Research
• He specializes in the history of American cities and urban problems, especially crime and poverty.
• His primary research project, which is funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation, examines the long-term trends in homicide, comparing NYC, Liverpool, and London from the 18th Century to the present to help increase understanding of the current wave of violence.

• Professor, Clinical Psychology
• His research focuses on the role psychosocial stress and related factors (e.g. coping, social supports, personality characteristics, biological processes, etc.) play in physical and psychological health and well-being in African-Americans and other ethnic minority populations.

• Professor, Education
• Her research interests range from discriminatory testing, psychodiagnostic practices, and issues related to techniques and processes of counseling and psychotherapy.

• Professor, Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences; Faculty Research Associate for the Bunche Center
• She has previously served as Director for two years at the Bunche Center.
• Her research interests examine the causes and consequences of changing patterns of family formation, inter-ethnic relations, adolescent resilience, immigration, and family policy.

• Professor, Political Science
• He works in the critical theory tradition, with a focus on African-American culture and social movements.
• His current research involves the area of African-American narrative, with forthcoming essays on W.E.B. Dubois, Ralph W. Ellison, and Elaine Brown.

• Assoc. Professor, Social Welfare
• Her research centers on the effects of social policies on social service delivery systems, public child welfare, foster care, and community self-help.
• She’s currently investigating the quality of life of individuals after they have emancipated from foster care.

Dr. Cheryl L. Keyes

• Assoc. Professor, Ethnomusicology
• She specializes in African-American music, popular music theory, women’s music, and hiphop.
• As the author for ‘Rap Music and Street Consciousness’, she conducted exclusive fieldwork on rap and hiphop culture in NY, Detroit, LA, and London.

Dr. Harryette Mullen

• Assoc. Professor, English Dept;
Faculty Research Associate, Bunche Center
for African American Studies
• She’s a critically acclaimed author and poet.

Dr. Steven Nelson

• Assoc. Professor, Art History Dept.
• He is currently the reviews editor for the College Art Association, Art Journal, and editor for African Arts.
• His research and teaching interests include African art & architecture, African-American art history.
• He’s completing a manuscript entitled, “Site & Symbol: Mousgoum Architecture, Race, and Modernity”.

Dr. Jenny Sharpe

• Assoc. Professor, English and Comparative Literature
• Her research specializes in colonial and post-colonial studies in Caribbean literature.
• She’s currently working on a book length study that engages current debates on globalization and transnationalism with the objective of placing the rural/urban dynamics of nations within a global frame and bringing the Caribbean as a region into the conceptual framework of the Block Atlantic.

Dr. Jennifer Obidah

• Assoc. Professor, Education - Urban Schooling
• Her research focuses on issues of violence, multicultural education, racial and cultural differences between teachers and students, teachers and critical pedagogists, and teacher preparation.

Dr. Richard Yarborough

• Associate Professor, English and African-American Literature and Culture; Faculty Research Associate, Bunche Center for African American Studies
• For four years, he served as Director for the Bunche Center.
• He has published extensively on African American literature, and he is a literary historian who was one of the co-editors of the Norton Anthology of African American Literature.

Dr. Michael A. Stoll

• Assoc. Professor, Policy Studies
• His main area of interest includes urban poverty and inequality, and the interplay of labor markets, race/ethnicity, and urban economic development.
• His current project explores the role that space plays in exacerbating inner-city unemployment by limiting suburban job information to inner-city residents and the interplay of race and space in limiting inner-city, predominantly minority, and resident’s employment opportunities.

ASSISTANT PROFESSORS

Dr. Scot Brown

• Asst. Professor, History; Faculty Research Associate, Bunche Center for African American Studies
• He’s currently working on a manuscript entitled, “Fighting for Us: Maulana Karenga, The US Organization and Black Cultural Nationalism”.

Dr. Tyrone Howard

• Asst. Professor, Education - Urban Schooling
• His research interests include multicultural education, the social and political context of schools, urban education, social studies education and the educational experience of African-American students.

Dr. Maureen E. Mahon

• Asst. Professor, Anthropology and Afro-American Studies
• Her latest publication is entitled, “2004 Right to Rock: The Black Rock Coalition and the Cultural Politics of Race”.
• Her research interests are cultural anthropology, race and identity, cultural activism, media and expressive culture.

Dr. Mark Sawyer

Dr. Caroline A. Streeter

• Asst. Professor, English and Afro-American Studies
• As a joint appointee in the Dept. of English and the Bunche Center for African-American Studies, she teaches courses in African American literature, comparative American ethnic literature, and feminist criticism, visual arts, and popular culture.
• Her research interests include ethnic studies and women’s studies.

LECTURERS

Paul Von Blum

• Senior Lecturer, African-American Studies Program, Communication Studies Program, and Art History
• He has received an Academic Senate distinguished Teaching Awards at both UC Berkeley and UCLA.
• He is the author of several books, and articles on art, society, culture, and history.
• His newly published book is entitled, “Resistance, Dignity & Pride: A History of African-American Art in Southern California”.