Core Department Faculty

Winnifred Brown-Glaude, Ph. D.

Phone: (609) 771-2149

E-mail: wbrown@tcnj.edu

Office Number: Social Science Building 310

Fall 2021 office hours: Wednesdays 10am – 12pm on Zoom

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.

Associate 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• “Bad Girls: Race, Crime, and Punishment in New York State, 1893—1916″ (unpublished book manuscript)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.

Department Chair

Associate Professor of African American Studies and English

Phone: (609) 771-3113

E-mail: williamp@tcnj.edu

Office Number: Social Science Building 335

Fall 2021 office hours: Mondays and Thursdays 1pm-2pm in person or Zoom 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.

Associate Professor

Phone: (609) 771-2539

E-mail: adairz@tcnj.edu

Office Number: Social Science Building 309

Fall 2021 office hours: Thursdays 1pm-3pm via Zoom

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

Michael Mitchell

Assistant Professor, African American Studies and Criminology

E-mail: mitchelm@tcnj.edu

Office Number: Social Science Building 334

Fall 2021 office hours:  Mondays 11am-12pm (in person) and by appointment

• Ph.D. (Cand.) in Administration of Justice, Texas Southern University
• M.A. in Criminology and Criminal Justice, The University of Texas at Arlington
• B.S. in Administration of Justice, Texas Southern University

• Special Topics: School to Prison Pipeline
• Advanced Criminology: Race, Crime, and Justice
• History of Black Lives Matter: Intersectional Anti-Racism and Violence Studies
• Introduction to Social Justice

• Parental Incarceration
• Youth Justice
• Returning Citizens

• Currently working on several journal manuscripts on race, gender, and reentry experiences
• Community Screening Board Volunteer for New Jersey Intensive Supervision Program (ISP)
• Club Advisor for TCNJ Chapter of Students for Prison Education and Reform (SPEAR)