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John Baugh
Director of African and African American Studies
John Baugh, Ph.D., is able to provide perspective on the historic 2008 presidential race and issues related to the first African American candidate from a major party to run for the office. Baugh, author of Beyond Ebonics: Linguistic Pride and Racial Prejudice, a significant piece of work on the Ebonics ...
Expertise: Race and politics, linguistics, linguistic profiling
Direct contact: (314) 935-5690
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jbaugh@wustl.edu
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Garrett Duncan
Associate Professor of Education
Garrett Duncan studies conditions that attribute to success and failure among black students in public schools, especially in competitive settings. He examines academic and social issues, with a special focus on high-stakes testing, education reform, violence, and racial disparities in achievement ...
Expertise: education reform, high stakes testing, racial disparities, social issues, urban schools
Direct contact: (314) 935-8740
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gaduncan@wustl.edu
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Gerald L. Early
Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters
Early is a noted essayist and American culture critic. A professor of English, of African & African American studies and of American culture studies, all in Arts & Sciences, Early is the author of several books, including The Culture of Bruising: Essays on Prizefighting, Literature, and Modern American ...
Expertise: American literature, African-American culture 1940-1960, Afro-American autobiography, non-fiction prose, baseball, jazz music, prizefighting, …
Direct contact: (314) 935-5576
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glearly@wustl.edu
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David T. Konig
Professor of History and Professor of Law
David Konig teaches colonial American history and civilization. His research interests include the development of constitutional and legal institutions in early America, Anglo-American legal history and American culture studies.
Expertise: Early America, Anglo-American legal history, American culture studies, colonial American history and civilization, constitutional origins in revolutionary America, constitutional law, the Bill of Rights, …
Direct contact: (314) 935-5459
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konig@wustl.edu
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Shanti A. Parikh
Assistant Professor of Anthropology in Arts & Sciences
Parikh's research focuses on local responses to national and global development interventions, particularly issues surrounding sexuality, sexual and reproductive health, and gender relations. Using ethnographic and historical methods and critical theory, her current research in eastern Uganda traces ...
Expertise: East Africa, HIV/AIDS, eastern Uganda, globalization, sexuality, gender relations, social change, …
Direct contact: (314) 935-7769
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sparikh@artsci.wustl.edu
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Carl Phillips
Professor of English and of African and African American studies in Arts & Sciences
Phillips is the highly acclaimed author of 10 collections of poetry. His first book, "In the Blood," won the 1992 Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize and was heralded as the work of an outstanding newcomer in the field of contemporary poetry. His other books are "Cortege" (1995), a finalist for both the ...
Expertise: contemporary poetry, African-American literature, 20th-century poetry, homoerotic poetry, contemporary literature, ancient writers, ancient poets, …
Direct contact: (314) 935-7133
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cphillips@wustl.edu
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Rafia Zafar
Professor of African and African American Studies
Zafar's research interests include African American literature, early American literature and food and its relationship to American society. Her recent books include We Wear the Mask: African Americans Write American Literature, 1760-1870; New Essays on Harriet Jacobs and Incidents in the Life of a ...
Expertise: African American literature, American literature, English, history
Direct contact: (314) 935-8556
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zafar@wustl.edu
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