Core Faculty
Ten scholars currently comprise the core faculty for the Bunche Center (ORU) and African American Studies.
Scot Brown (Bunche Center , History)
Sarah Haley (Bunche Center, Gender Studies)
Peter Hudson (Bunche Center, African American Studies)
Uri McMillan (Bunche Center, English, African American Studies)
Harryette Mullen (Bunche Center, English)
Jemima Pierre (Bunche Center, African American Studies)
Courtney S. Thomas (Bunche Center, Department of Community Health Sciences)
Richard Yarborough (Bunche Center, English)
Faculty Advisory Committee (2020-2021)
The Faculty Advisory Committee is appointed by the Vice Provost for the Institute of American Cultures to advise the Director on research, programmatic initiatives, and ongoing Bunche Center operations.
Samy Alim, African American Studies
Walter Allen, Education
Cesar Ayala, Sociology
Bryonn Bain, African American Studies
Aomar Boum, Anthropology
Tiffany Brannon, Psychology
Karida Brown, Sociology
Scot Brown, History
Henry Burton, Engineering, Civil & Environmental
Devon Carbado, Law
Fred D’Aguiar, English
Ugo Edu, African American Studies
Aisha Finch, Gender Studies
Chandra Ford, Public Health
Shelleen Greene, Film, Television & Digital Media
Cheryl Harris, Law
Kelly Lytle Hernandez, History, African American Studies
Tyrone Howard, Education
Peter J. Hudson, African American Studies
Marcus Hunter, Sociology
Alfreda Iglehart, Public Affairs/Social Welfare
Eufemia Jacob, Nursing
Kia Jeffers, School of Nursing
Gaye Theresa Johnson, Cesar E. Chavez Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies (CHAIR)
Tracy Johnson, Molecular, Cell and Development Biology
Robin D. G. Kelley, History
Cheryl Keyes, Ethnomusicology
Michelle Lens, Urban Planning and Public Policy
Kelly Lytle Hernandez, History
Kyle Mays, African American Studies/American Indian Studies
Safiya Noble, Education
Sobukwe Odinga, African American Studies
Ketema Paul, Molecular, Cell and Development Biology
Jemina Pierre, African American Studies
Gina Poe, Integrative Biology and Physiology
Marilyn Raphael, Geography
Ellen Scott, Theater, Film & TV
LaToya Small, Social Welfare
SA Smythe, African American Studies
Brenda Stevenson, History
Caroline Streeter, English
Dominic Taylor, Theater, Film & TV
Courtney Thomas, Community Health Sciences
Abel Valenzuela Jr., Cesar Chavez Dept of Chicana and Chicano Studies
Richard Yarborough, English
Alden Young, African American Studies
Affiliated Faculty
Many other affiliated faculty members from every corner of the campus participate in teaching, research activities, committee service, and community activities for the Bunche Center.
Abdelmonem A. Afifi, School of Public Health-Biostat
Charles Alexander, AAP Admin/Dentistry
Andrew Apter, History
Carol Archie, Med Center/OBGYN
Cesar Ayala, Sociology
Bryonn Bain, World Arts and Cultures and African American Studies
Tiffany Brannon, Social-Psychology
Kathleen Brown, Clinical Radiology
Henry Burton, Civil & Environmental Engineering
Kenny Burrell, Ethnomusicology
David M. Carlisle, Medicine
Richard Casey, Jules Stein Eye Institute
Edwin Cooper, Neurobiology, Emeritus
Robert Cooper, Education
Youlanda Copeland-Morgan, Vice Provost, Enrollment Management
Kimberle Crenshaw, Law
William Cunningham, Medicine & Public Health
Jacqueline DjeDje, Ethnomusicology, Emerita
Charles Flippen, HS Clinical Professor
Lorrie Frasure- Yokley, Political Science
Yogita Goyal, English
Sandra Graham, Education
Sarah Haley, Gender Studies
Theodore Hall, Radiological Sciences
Cheryl Harris, Law
Edmond Hewlett, Dentistry
Robert A. Hill, History, Emeritus
Tyrone Howard, Education
Darnell Hunt, Dean of Social Sciences
Aurora Jackson, Social Welfare
Josephine Isabel-Jones, Med Center, Emeritus
Arthur Little, English
Vickie Mays, Psychology
Muriel McClendon, History
Claudia Mitchell-Kernan, Anthropology, Emeritus
Harryette Mullen, English
Steven Nelson, Art History
Alfred Osborne, Management
Gary A. Orfield, Education
Vena Ricketts, Med Center
Edward Savage, Med Center/OBGYN
Jenny Sharpe, English
Michael A. Stoll, Public Affairs
Sherod Thaxton, Law
M. Belinda Tucker, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Emeritus)
Patricia A. Turner, College of Letter & Science, Office of the Deans)
Jane Valentine, Public Health
Gail Wyatt, Psychiatry
