Faculty and Staff
Director, Africana Studies - Dr. Onwubiko Agozino
Dr. Agozino comes to Virginia Tech from the University of the West Indies (Trinidada and Tobago) where he served as the criminology unit coordinator and deputy dean for graduate studies and research. He holds a bachelor's degree in sociology from the University of Calabar in Nigeria, a master's from the University of Cambridge and earned his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Edinburgh. Dr. Agozino's research interests include reparative justice, Pan-African issues in criminology, and counter-colonial criminology.
Director, Race and Social Policy Research Center - Dr. Wornie Reed
Dr. Reed comes to Virginia Tech from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, where he served as the director of the Africana Studies program. He has held positions at Cleveland State University, the University of Massachusetts at Boston, Morgan State University and Washington University. He was the founding director of the William Monroe Trotter Research Institute at U. Mass. Boston and also directed the Urban Child Research Center at Cleveland State. Dr. Reed's research has addressed medical care, health and illness, urban communities and criminal justice. He has received more than $6.3 million in research funding. He also is the recipient of two regional Emmy awards for his work on the Urban Cancer Project in Cleveland to produce documentaries and videos aimed at reducing the incidence of cancer among African Americans. Dr. Reed was trained as a medical sociologist, receiving his Ph.D. in sociology from Boston University. He is also an alumnus of Alabama State University.
Assistant Director, Race and Social Policy Research Center - Dr. Ellington Graves
Dr. Graves joined the Center in 2005. In addition to teaching courses in the Department of Sociology, he serves as primary advisor to Race and Social Policy Graduate Certificate Students. Dr. Graves's research interests include racial disparities in education, Black identity and political ideology and residential segregation.
Africana Studies Faculty
Dr. Kwame Harrison - Assistant Professor
Dr. Paolo Polanah - Assistant Professor
Dr. Paula Seniors - Assistant Professor
Africana Studies Affiliated Faculty
Dr. Beverly Bunche-Lyons - Associate Professor, History (Northern Virginia Center)
Dr. Gena Chandler - Assistant Professor, English
Dr. Fred D'Aguiar - Gloria Smith Chair in Africana Studies/Professor, English
Dr. Haywood Farrar - Associate Professor, History
Dr. Virginia Fowler - Professor, English
Professor Nikki Giovanni - University Distinguished Professor, English
Professor Robert Graham - Professor, Art and Art History
Dr. Michael Herndon - Assistant Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies
Ed McPherson - Learning Technology/Director, VT STARS
Dr. Moses Panford - Assistant Professor, Foreign Languages
Professor Lucinda Roy - Alumni Distinguished Professor, English
Race and Social Policy Affiliated Faculty
Dr. Joyce Arditti - Associate Professor, Human Development
Dr. Beverly Bunch-Lyons - Associate Professor, History
Dr. Sam Cook - Associate Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies
Dr. Wilma Dunaway - Associate Professor, Government and International Affairs
Dr. Larkin Dudley - Associate Professor, Center for Public Administration and Policy
Mr. Harry Dyer - Director, Diversity Certificate Program/Instructor, Interdisciplinary Studies
Dr. Haywood Farrar - Associate Professor, History
Dr. April Few - Associate Professor, Human Development
Dr. Charles Good - Professor, Geography
Dr. Charles Goodsell - Professor Emeritus, Center for Public Administration and Policy
Dr. Ted Koebel - Director Emeritus, Center for Housing Research/Professor, Urban Affairs & Planning
Dr. Barbara Lockee - Professor, Teaching and Learning
Dr. Renee Loeffler - Director, Institute for Public Policy Research
Mr. Ed McPherson - Learning Technology/Director, VT STARS
Dr. Manuel Perez-Quinones - Associate Professor, Computer Science and Engineering
Dr. Richard Shingles - Associate Professor, Political Science