F A C U L T Y


	F A C U L T Y Director Jesse Weaver Shipley Africana Studies Susan Aberth Assistant Professor of Art History Chinua Achebe Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Professor of Languages & Literature Christie Chinwe Achebe Professor of Psychology Amy Ansell Associate Professor of Sociology; Director, Studies in Race and Ethnicity Myra Young Armstead Professor of History; Director, Historical Studies Program; History Faculty, Master of Arts in Teaching Thurman Barker Associate Professor of Music Mario J.A. Bick Professor of Anthropology Diana De G. Brown Associate Professor of Anthropology and Latin American and Iberian Studies; Co-director, Gender Studies Program Tabetha Ewing Assistant Professor of History Kyle Gann Associate Professor of Music Donna Ford Grover Visiting Assistant Professor of Literature John Ryle Legrand Ramsey Professor of Anthropology and Chair of the Rift Valley Institute Yuka Suzuki Assistant Professor of Anthropology Affiliated Faculty Felicia Keesing (Biology) Alice Stroup (Historical Studies) Geoffrey Sanborn (Literature) Richard Teitelbaum (Music) Wendy Urban-Mead (Assistant Professor of History and Faculty, MAT Program) F A C U L T Y N E W S Chinua Achebe won the International Man Booker Prize in June 2007 in honor of his literary career. Jesse Weaver Shipley was interviewed in the spring of 2007 by NPR regarding his work on Ghanaian popular culture as part of the current hip-hop scene in West Africa. See transcript at www.afropop.org/multi/feature/ID/709. Jesse Weaver Shipley was recently interviewed on ABC News for his film Living the Hiplife and his on going research on popular culture and politics in West Africa. See the story and video interview: abcnews.go.com/WN/Webcast/story?id=3845798&page=1