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Africana Studies

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Charisse Burden-Stelly Bio
Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and Political Science
Off Campus: Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Winter 2023
Phone: 507 222 5247
Email: cburden@carleton.edu

Charisse Burden-Stelly completed her Ph.D. in African Diaspora Studies at the University of California, Berkeley in 2016. She holds an M.A. in African American Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, and a B.A. in Political Science and in African and African American Studies from Barrett Honor College at Arizona State University. Her scholarship traverses Africana Studies, Critical Theory, Political Theory, and Political Economy with a substantive focus on antiradicalism, anti-blackness, and state-sanctioned violence; globalization and economic development; and epistemologies of Black Studies.

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Eddie O’Byrn Bio
Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Africana Studies
Office: Leighton Hall 307
Phone: 507 222 4839
Email: eobyrn@carleton.edu
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Thabiti Willis Bio
Associate Professor of History
Off Campus: Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Winter 2023
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Affiliated Faculty

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Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg Bio
Broom Professor of Social Demography and Anthropology
Co-Director of Africana Studies
Off Campus: Spring 2023
Office: Leighton Hall 233
Phone: 507 222 4113
Email: pfeldman@carleton.edu
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Andy Flory Bio
Associate Professor of Music
Chair of Music
Office: Weitz Center for Creativity M209
Phone: 507 222 4390
Email: aflory@carleton.edu
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Chérif Keïta Bio
William H. Laird Professor of French and the Liberal Arts
Off Campus: Spring 2022
Office: Language & Dining Center 357
Phone: 507 222 4433
Email: ckeita@carleton.edu
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Kofi Owusu Bio
Co-Director of Africana Studies
Professor of English
Office: Laird Hall 203
Phone: 507 222 4319
Email: kowusu@carleton.edu
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Noah Salomon Bio
Associate Professor of Religion
Off Campus: Spring 2022
Phone: 507 222 4227
Email: nsalomon@carleton.edu
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Jeff Snyder ’97 Bio
Associate Professor of Educational Studies
Chair of Educational Studies
Office: Willis Hall 108
Phone: 507 222 4008
Email: jsnyder@carleton.edu

Jeff Snyder, Associate Professor of Educational Studies, is a historian of education who studies the twentieth-century United States. His work explores the intersections between the history of education and broader trends in U.S. cultural and intellectual history, examining questions about race, national identity and the purpose of public education in a diverse, democratic society.

Professor Snyder is the author of the book Making Black History: Race, Culture and the Color Line in the Age of Jim Crow (University of Georgia Press, 2018). His articles, essays and book reviews have appeared in academic journals such as History of Education Quarterly, Schools and Teachers College Record. He is also a frequent contributor to newspapers and magazines, including American Prospect, Boston Review, the Chronicle of Higher Education, Education Week, Inside Higher Ed, the New Republic and Salmagundi.

A Carleton alumnus, Professor Snyder majored in Psychology and minored in Educational Studies. He holds an EdM in Learning and Teaching from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a PhD in the History of Education from New York University. Before pursuing graduate studies, he taught English to Speakers of Other Languages to students of all ages and ability levels in the Czech Republic, France, China, India, Nepal and the United States.

Professor Snyder teaches the following courses: Will This Be On the Test? Standardized Testing and American Education (EDUC 100), Introduction to Educational Studies (EDUC 110), History of American School Reform (EDUC 245), Fixing Schools: Politics and Policy in American Education (EDUC 250) and Multicultural Education (EDUC 338).

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Harry Williams
Laird Bell Professor of History, Emeritus
Phone: 507 222 4217
Email: hwilliam@carleton.edu

Visiting Faculty

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Noël Voltz Bio
Laird Bell Postdoctoral Fellow in History
Office: Leighton Hall 212
Phone: 507 222 5241
Email: nvoltz@carleton.edu

Student Departmental Advisers

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Aisha Dem ’23
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Henry Holcomb ’23
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Staff

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Anna Hagen Bio
Administrative Assistant for the Center for Global and Regional Studies
Administrative Assistant for the IUSE Grant
Administrative Assistant to the Director of the Quantitative Resource Center
Game Worker
Office: Goodsell Observatory 105
Phone: 507 222 4588
Email: annahagen@carleton.edu

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Director: Thabiti Willis
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Phone: 507-222-4588
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This page was last updated on 7 September 2021
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