People

See below for contact information for our faculty and staff members.

Brief biographies and descriptions of each faculty member’s teaching and research interests can be found by selecting the faculty member’s name.

Claude Clegg, Department Chair

E: cclegg@email.unc.edu

P: 919-966-5496

Kenneth Janken, Director of Undergraduate Studies and Honors Coordinator

E: krjanken@email.unc.edu

P: 919-962-1519

Fall 2023 virtual office hours: Wednesday 8-9:30am, 2-3:30pm at https://unc.zoom.us/j/94152502336.

Mohamed Mwamzandi, Language Coordinator

E: mymzandi@email.unc.edu

Charlene Regester, Summer School Administrator

E: regester@email.unc.edu

P: 919-537-3383

Administrative and Support Staff

Core Faculty

Maya J. Berry                                    maya.berry@unc.edu                             919-537-3382

Raphael Birya                                   rbirya@emai.unc.edu

Lydia Boyd                                         lcboyd@email.unc.edu                          919-537-3385

Brandi Brimmer                              bbrimmer@unc.edu                                919-537-3188

Samba Camara                                 camara@email.unc.edu

Claude Clegg                                     cclegg@email.unc.edu                            919-962-2347

Shakirah Hudani                             shudani@.unc.edu                                    919-962-8225

Kenneth Janken                               krjanken@email.unc.edu                      919-962-1519

Michael Lambert                             mlambert@email.unc.edu                    919-962-2342

Alicia Monroe                                   almonroe@email.unc.edu

Mohamed Mwamzandi                mymzandi@email.unc.edu

Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja         nzongola@email.unc.edu                     919-537-3210

David Pier                                           dpier@email.unc.edu                              919-537-3386

Robert Porter                                    rporter@email.unc.edu

Charlene Regester                          regester@email.unc.edu                        919-537-3383

Eunice Sahle                                     eunice@email.unc.edu

Petal Samuel                                     petals@email.unc.edu                             919-962-3944

Ronald Williams II                         rcw@email.unc.edu                                  919-843-6202

Adjunct Faculty

Fenaba Addo, Associate Professor, Public Policy                                                                               faddo@email.unc.edu

Anna Agbe-Davies, Associate Professor, Anthropology                                                                agbe-davies@unc.edu

Renée Alexander Craft, Professor, Communication                                                                         renee.alexander.craft@unc.edu

Lisa Calvente, Assistant Professor, Communication                                                                       lcalvente@unc.edu

Youssef Carter, Assistant Professor, Religious Studies                                                                   youssefcarter@unc.edu

Christopher Clark, Associate Professor, Political Science                                                             chriclar@unc.edu

Shannon Malone Gonzalez, Assistant Professor, Sociology                                                         sgonzalez@unc.edu

Sudhanshu Handa, Eminent Professor, Public Policy                                                                     shanda@email.unc.edu

Taylor Hargrove, Assistant Professor, Sociology                                                                              thargrov@email.unc.edu

Sherick Hughes, Distinguished Professor, Education                                                                     shughes@email.unc.edu

Lauren Jarvis, Assistant Professor, History                                                                                         ljarvis@email.unc.edu

Joseph Jordan, Director, Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History         jfjordan@email.unc.edu

Priscilla Layne, Associate Professor, Germanic & Slavic Languages                                        playne@email.unc.edu

Lisa Lindsay, Professor, History                                                                                                               lalindsa@email.unc.edu

Chaitra Powell, Curator, Southern Historical Collection                                                               chaitra@email.unc.edu

Danielle Purifoy, Assistant Professor, Geography                                                                            danielle.purifoy@unc.edu

Antonia Randolph, Assistant Professor, American Studies                                                          antonia.randolph@unc.edu

Victoria Rovine, Professor, Art                                                                                                                  vrovine@email.unc.edu

Rebecka Rutledge Fisher, Associate Professor, English & Comparative Literature           rrfisher@ad.unc.edu

Tanya Shields, Associate Professor, Women’s & Gender Studies                                              tshields@unc.edu

J. Michael Terry, Associate Professor, Linguistic                                                                             sterryjm@email.unc.edu

Affiliated Instructors

John Bowles                                           jpbowles@unc.edu

Howard Craft                                        samurai7@email.unc.edu

Carol McGee                                          cmagee@email.unc.edu

Christopher Massenburg                mrdasan@email.unc.edu

Joseph Megel                                        megel@email.unc.edu

Matthew Sebastian                            mrs73@email.unc.edu

Torri Staton                                          tstaton@email.unc.edu