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Meet the Black Studies Faculty
The major and minor in Black Studies draws upon Knox faculty expertise in several areas related to African and African-descended peoples worldwide—history, language, literature, economics, women's studies, psychology, chemistry and art history. Their research interests are listed below, with additional information and e-mail contacts on each person's linked profile page
Program Committee
Fredrick L. Hord, Chair
Professor of Black Studies
Ph.D., Union Graduate School, 1987
"My most immediate projects are in the areas of Black Studies theory, African American literary criticism, Black psychology traditions, and the status of Blacks in Latin America."
Steven CohnProfessor of
Economics Ph.D., University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 1986
"In addition to my work in the political economy of nuclear power, which I wrote about in my 1997 book, Too Cheap to Meter, I am interested in environmental economics and in fundamental philosophical questions involved in the economics curriculum.".jpg)
Caesar AkueteyAssociate Professor of
Modern Languages and Literatures On-site Director, Besançon Program
Ph.D., Université de Franche-Comté, 1989
"My research focuses on General Linguistics, notably on the construction of my mother tongue; the Ewe language (a language spoken in Ghana, Benin and Nigeria)."
Mary CrawfordAssociate Professor of
Chemistry Ph.D., Purdue University, 1999
"My laboratory uses kinetic and mechanistic approaches to determine the products formed and the rate constants of reactions of the hydroxyl radical and the chlorine atom with various anthropogenic substances. Of particular interest at this time is the study of fuel additives."
Magali Roy-FéquièreAssociate Professor of
Gender and Women Studies Ph.D., 1993, Stanford University
"My book reviews selected texts of the Generacion del Treinta suggesting that cultural institutions, publications, and literary works provided the means through which class, racial, and gender alliances were played out in the context of U.S. political and economic hegemony over the island."
Tony GantAssociate Professor of
Art M.F.A., Yale University, 1988
Eric EdiAssistant Professor of
Integrated International StudiesPh.D., Temple University, 2004
"With the rise of globalization and the transformations triggered in the cultures and the economies of Black people, my work has consisted in finding and explicating the ways in which masses and leadership have coped with pressing issues such as poverty, conflicts, democracy, unity, and equality."
Nikki MalleyInstructor of
Music M.A., Washington University - St. Louis, 2002
"As a director, I emphasize a broad knowledge of both classic jazz repertoire and new innovations in jazz composition."Kelly Shaw
Instructor in Psychology and Gender and Women's Studies
Ph.D. candidate, Purdue University
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