Core Department Faculty

Winnifred Brown-Glaude, Ph. D.

Department Chair

Phone: (609) 771-2149

E-mail: wbrown@tcnj.edu

Office Number: Social Science Building 310

Spring 2019 Office Hours: by appointment

Degrees Earned

• Ph. D. in Sociology, Temple University

Courses Taught

• ‘Race and Ethnicity in Latin America and the Caribbean’
• ‘Women of Color: A Global Perspective’
• ‘Women in World Perspective: A View from the Caribbean’
• ‘Race and Ethnicity in the United States’

Research Interests

• Race and Ethnicity in the Anglophone-Caribbean
• Race, Gender and Informal Economies
• Gender and Globalization

Recent Research & Activities

• Feminist Mosaics: The Politics of Embodiment in the English Speaking Caribbean (currently working on this third book project)

Publications

• Higgler’s in Kingston: Women’s Informal Work in Jamaica (Vanderbilt University Press, 2011)
• Doing Diversity in Higher Education: Faculty Leaders Share Challenges and Strategies (Rutgers University Press, 2009)

Leigh-Anne Francis, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

E-mail: francisl@tcnj.edu

Degrees Earned

• Ph. D. in United States and African American History
• M.A. in U.S. and World History
• B.F.A. in Painting and Illustration

Courses Taught

• ‘African American Women’s History’
• ‘Topics in African American Studies – LGBTQ Communities of Color in U.S. History, 1600s to present’

Recent Research & Activities

• “Bad Girls: Race, Crime, and Punishment in New York State, 1893—1916″ (unpublished book manuscript)
• Volunteered as an instructor at Mountainvew Youth Correctional Facility for Men in New Jersey

Piper Kendrix Williams, Ph. D.

Associate Professor

Phone: (609) 771-3113

E-mail: williamp@tcnj.edu

Office Number: Social Science Building 335

Spring 2019 Office Hours: Monday and Thursday, 10:30am — 11:30am, Thursdays 3:30-4:30pm and by appointment

Degrees Earned

• M.A. and Ph. D., Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
• B.A., Spelman College

Courses Taught

• ‘Early African American Literature 1920’
• ‘Early African American Literature 1920 – 1980’
• African Disapora Literature
• Multicultural Studies

Publications

• Re-presenting Segregation: Toward and Esthetics of Living Jim Crow, co-edited with Brian Norma, (SUNY Press, 2010)

Zakiya R. Adair, Ph. D.

Assistant Professor

Phone: (609) 771-2539

E-mail: adairz@tcnj.edu

Office Number: Social Science Building 309

Spring 2019 Office Hours: Tuesday and Friday, 10:30am — 10:50am and 12:30pm — 1:30pm

Degrees Earned

• Ph. D. in Women’s Studies, University of Washington

Courses Taught

• Race, Gender and Cultural Production
• Gender and Popular Culture
• Black Feminist Thought
• Black Protest Music
• African Americans in Film

Research Interests

• Transnational women’s cultural history
• African American history
• Black internationalism with specific focus on early trans-Atlantic expressive culture

Recent Research & Activities

• National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Scholar in Residence at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture 2013
• Currently working on completing her first book length monograph that will explore the relationship between race, gender and nation in trans-Atlantic and transnational vaudeville, cabaret and music hall in the early twentieth century