Faculty Directory
Hamilton's faculty members are active and accomplished scholars and dedicated teachers. In the classroom, the lab, the studio and beyond, professors are engaged in the intellectual and cultural lives of their students.
This directory includes an alphabetical listing of current Hamilton faculty members and information about their areas of expertise and teaching experience. You can also search by name or area of study below.
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Nigel Westmaas
Chair, Professor of Africana Studies
Expertisehistory, sociology, and Africana studies -
Donald Carter
Professor of Africana Studies
Expertiseculture theory; racial formation; visual culture; diaspora; invisibility and transnational cultural politics -
Mark Cryer
Chair and Professor of Theatre
Expertiseacting; Shakespeare; African-American theatre; Sanford Meisner; Uta Hagen; August Wilson -
A. Todd Franklin
Eugene M. Tobin Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Africana Studies
Expertiseexistentialism, African-American philosophy, and Nietzsche -
Heather Merrill
Professor of Africana Studies, Director of Italian Studies
ExpertiseCritical human geography; race, place, and belonging in Italy, Black Europe, and the U.S.; gender and intersectionality; African Diasporic politics and identity in Italy; Blackness and anti-blackness -
Shelley Haley
Edward North Chair of Classics and Professor of Africana Studies Emerita (retired)
Expertiseancient Africa including ancient Egypt, Cleopatra, Latin pedagogy, Classica Africana, Roman social history focusing on constructs of race, gender and sexuality; black feminist thought; and critical race feminism and African-American women's intellectual history -
Vincent Odamtten
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Literature and Africana Studies Emeritus (retired)
ExpertiseAfrican literature with a focus of Ghanaian and women's literature; 20th-century Caribbean literature; African-American literature; science fiction; literary criticism; use of digital technology in the study of literature
