Faculty Fellows

Faculty fellows

Selene Carter

Associate Chair and Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre, Drama & Contemporary Dance

Selene Carter, MFA, is a dance maker and scholar specializing in improvisation and somatic dance. Her work in anti-racist education includes performances, publications, and workshops.

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Candis D. Smith

Lecturer, African American and African Diaspora Studies

Candis Driver Smith, Ph.D., is a Lecturer in the Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies. She earned her doctorate in English with a Certificate in African Studies from Michigan State University.

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Past Faculty Fellows

Maria E. Hamilton Abegunde

Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies

Memory Keeper, poet, ancestral priest in the Yoruba Orisa tradition, healing facilitator, and doula. She is the founding director of The Graduate Mentoring Center.

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Amrita Chakrabarti Myers

Ruth N. Halls Associate Professor of History and Gender Studies

Doctorate in US History from Rutgers University with minors in African American History and Women’s History and specializes in the History of Black Women in the Slave South.

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Faculty Fellows

Faculty fellows

Selene Carter

Candis D. Smith

Past Faculty Fellows

Maria E. Hamilton Abegunde

Amrita Chakrabarti Myers

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