Ama Bemma  Adwetewa-Badu

• Assistant Professor of English

• Email: amabemma@wustl.edu

​Jean  Allman

• Emeritus J.H. Hexter Professor in the Humanities
• Professor Emerita of African and African American Studies, History (Affiliate), and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (Affiliate)

• Email: jallman@wustl.edu
• Phone: 314-935-9599 (History); 314-935-5576 (Center for the Humanities)

Marlon M.  Bailey

• Chair of African and African American Studies
• 
  Professor of African and African American Studies, Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Faculty Affiliate in the Performing Arts Department and the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Equity
  

• Email: b.marlon@wustl.edu

​​John  Baugh

• ​Margaret Bush Wilson Professor in Arts & Sciences
• Professor Emeritus of Psychology, Anthropology, Education, English, Linguistics, and African and African-American Studies

• Email: jbaugh@wustl.edu
• Phone: 314-935-5960

​Iver  Bernstein​

• Professor of History, African and African-American Studies, and American Culture Studies

• Email: icbernst@wustl.edu
• Phone: 314-935-5401

​J. Dillon  Brown

• Director of Undergraduate Studies
• Associate Professor of English

• Email: jdbrown@wustl.edu
• Phone: 314-935-9241

Sheretta  Butler-Barnes

• Dean’s Distinguished Professorial Scholar, Professor of Developmental Psychology

Kia Lilly  Caldwell

• Professor of African & African American Studies
• Dean's Distinguished Professorial Scholar in Arts & Sciences
  Courtesy appointment at the Brown School of Social Work
  

• Email: c.kia@wustl.edu
• Phone: 314-935-5068

Carol  Camp Yeakey

• Marshall S. Snow Professor of Arts & Sciences
• Professor of Education, Urban Studies, African and African American Studies, and American Culture Studies
• Founding Director of the Center on Urban Research & Public Policy and the Interdisciplinary Program in Urban Studies
  

• Email: cyeakey@wustl.edu
• Phone: 314-935-6241

Rudolph  Clay

• Head of Library Diversity Initiatives & Outreach
• Senior Lecturer in African American Studies
  AFAS Subject Librarian

• Email: rudolphc@wustl.edu
• Phone: 314-935-5059

Mary  Cox

• Graduate Student, Psychological & Brain Sciences

Tolu  Daniel

• Graduate Student, Comparative Literature; track for international writers Film & Media Studies

Joanna Dee​  Das

• Associate Professor of Dance​
• Director of Graduate Studies of MFA Program in Dance
  
  Faculty Affiliate in African & African American Studies
  Faculty Affiliate in the Program in American Culture Studies
  Faculty Affiliate in the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Equity (CRE2)
  Faculty Affiliate in History

• Email: Joanna.D.Das@wustl.edu

Adrienne  Davis

• William M. Van Cleve Professor of Law

• Email: adriennedavis@wustl.edu
• Phone: 314-935-8583

Ashley  Dennis

• Past Postdoctoral Fellow, AFAS '22-'23

El Hadji Samba Amadou  Diallo

• Senior Lecturer in African and African American Studies

• Email: ediallo@wustl.edu
• Phone: 314-935-8741

Nathan  Dize

• Assistant Professor of French
• Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies (Courtesy Appointment)
  WashU Center for Race, Ethnicity, and Equity (Affiliate and Spring 2027 Faculty Fellow)
  

• Email: dize@wustl.edu

​Gerald  Early

• ​Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters
• Professor of African & African American Studies & English

• Email: glearly@wustl.edu
• Phone: 314-935-4008

Lauren  Eldridge Stewart

• Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology,
• Performing Arts Department (Affiliate),
  Department of African and African-American Studies (Affiliate)
  (On leave Fall 2026)
  
  
  
  
  

• Email: leldridgestewart@wustl.edu
• Phone: 314-935-5581

Rowhea  Elmesky

• Associate Professor of Education

• Email: relmesky@wustl.edu
• Phone: 314-935-7581

Tomos  Evans

• Assistant Professor, Art History and Archaeology and African and African American Studies

• Email: tomos@wustl.edu
• Phone: 314-935-4358

Zachariah  Ezer

• Assistant Professor of Performing Arts

• Email: ezer@wustl.edu

Gloria  Fall

• Graduate Student in Sociocultural Anthropology

Jonathan​  Fenderson

• ​Associate Professor of African and African American Studies and Faculty Affiliate History Department

• Email: jfender@wustl.edu
• Phone: 314-935-8739