Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg received her Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1990. She has been working on reproductive health care issues in Cameroon since 1980, first as a Peace Corps volunteer and later as an anthropological researcher. Her research focuses on connections between reproduction and belonging, especially when these go awry through infertility, miscarriage, unsafe abortion, or ethnic stereotyping of fertility. After projects investigating the historical, religious, and political roots of fear of infertility and rumors surrounding medical interventions, her subsequent work addressed rural-to-urban women migrants’ social networks and decisions about fertility, miscarriage care, and abortion within Cameroon. Pamela’s current project investigates ways West African migrants to Europe incorporate childbearing into their negotiation of national, ethnic, and gender identities in a globalizing context. In addition to introductory anthropology, she teaches courses on gender, Africa, health and illness, and the relationship between human and social reproduction. During the 2010-11 academic year, Pamela is on sabbatical conducting research with Cameroonian transnationals in Berlin, with affiliations at the Free University and the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology.

Chérif Keita is Professor of French and Francophone Studies (Ph.D., University of Georgia). He teaches Francophone Literature of Africa and the Caribbean, as well as advanced languages courses. A native of Mali, he has published books and articles on both social and literary problems in contemporary Africa. His special interests include the novel and social evolution in Mali, Oral tradition, and the relationship between music, literature and culture in Africa. He is the author of Massa Makan Diabaté (L'Harmattan, 1995), Salif Keita: L'oiseau sur le fromager (Le figuier, 2001) and Salif Keïta: l’ambassadeur de la musique du Mali (Paris: Grandvaux, 2009). He has completed a documentary film entitled "Oberlin-Inanda: The Life and Times of John L. Dube" [Special Mention at 2005 FESPACO], about the life of the first President of the African National Congress of South Africa and his education in the U.S. at the end of the nineteenth century. “Cemetery Stories: A Rebel Missionary in South Africa”, his second documentary traces the relationship between John Dube and a Northfield missionary family who mentored him and educated him in the United States.  Professor Keïta also leads a Carleton Francophone off-campus studies program to Mali every other year.  Please also see: Uncommon Ties.

Melinda Russell (Ethnomusicology, Director of Karimba and Mbira Ensembles) received the B.A. from Simon's Rock Early College, the M.A. in Ethnomusicology from the University of Minnesota, and the Ph.D. from the University of Illinois. She brings to Carleton a rich background in ethnomusicology, focusing on a variety of musical traditions in North America, Africa, and the Caribbean. Dr. Russell has published articles on reggae and musical taste, on the Macarena craze of the 1990s, and on choral music in an Illinois city, and coedited the books Community of Music and In the Course of Performance: Studies in the World of Musical Improvisation. She was formerly the Book Review Editor for the journal Ethnomusicology. Professor Russell has articles forthcoming in publications of the College Music Society, the European Association for American Studies, and Sociology of Music Education.

Noah Salomon teaches courses in the study of Islam, with a particular interest in the thought and practice of contemporary Muslim piety movements which span (and thus complicate) cartographic lines which divide what we have come to call Africa from the geopolitical unit known as the "Middle East."  His research has taken place primarily in Sudan and he has an interest in re-examining the place of Islam and Arabic language and culture within the field of African Studies. He is currently working on a book manuscript entitled In the Shadow of Salvation: Sufis, Salafis and the Project of Late Islamism in Contemporary Sudan.

In his forty-year career at Carleton, Bob Tisdale has taught many courses related to African American studies. In 1969 he offered Carleton's first course in Black literature; for fifteen years he taught a freshman seminar on multicultural fiction, memoir, and drama and takes pride in having taught four students who subsequently earned a Ph.D. in African American studies.  
   His interest in the topic dates from his rooming with an African American student at Princeton—one of two Black students enrolled in his class--a young man who later earned a Ph.D. in history. Experience directing a NEH graduate program for African American high school teachers at Dartmouth deepened his interest, and a summer doing research on slavery at the Huntington Library and Black fiction at U. C. Berkeley helped him develop the first version of the course on Black literature that he taught at Carleton.
   While he directed the American Studies program he worked with colleagues to develop and teach a course on immigration and forced migration.
   He has an M.A.T. from Wesleyan and a Ph.D. from Yale.

A. Terrance Wiley holds degrees from Southern Methodist University, B.A.; Georgetown University Law Center, J.D.; Princeton University, M.A, [Ph.D. exp. 2010] and teaches courses at the intersection of religious ethics, law and politics, Peace Studies, and African American Studies.  His dissertation is entitled, "Angelic Troublemakers and the Modern State": The Radical Ethics of Henry David Thoreau, Dorothy Day, and Bayard Rustin.

Professor Williams has been at Carleton since 1989. (Lincoln University B.A., Missouri M.A., Brown A.M., Ph.D.) African American history with primary teaching interests in 19th c. slavery studies, social and intellectual history, black conservatism, and cultural studies. Secondary teaching interests include the Black Atlantic with emphasis on Ghana (Gold Coast) and the United States, and the Concord intellectuals. Research interest George S. Schuyler (1895-1977). Bibliography. Member of the History Department, 2010-11 serving as the Director of African and African American Studies Program. Created and leads Carleton's Ghana Program: Ghana program. 

Since Fall, 2010.  Clark Atlanta University B.A., Cornell University M.A., Emory University M.A. & Ph.D.  African & African Diaspora History.  Nigeria, West Africa; Yoruba history, culture, and religion; masquerade and ritual performance; gender, slavery, ethnicity, religion, and performance in Africa. Bibliography

Deborah Appleman received her doctorate in English Education at the University of Minnesota in 1986. At Carleton she is the Hollis L. Caswell professor of educational studies and director of Carleton's Summer Writing Program, a three-week program for high school juniors and seniors). She also teaches the English section of Carleton's summer workshop for teachers, the Summer Teaching Institute. During 2003-2004 she is serving her second year as mentor for Carleton's second group of Posse students from the Chicago area. Professor Appleman's primary research interests include multicultural literature, adolescent response to literature, teaching literary theory to secondary students, and adolescent response to poetry. She was a high school teacher for nine years. She has written numerous book chapters and articles on adolescent response to literature and she co-edited Braided Lives,a multicultural literature anthology published by the Minnesota Humanities Commission. Her most recent book is, Reading for Themselves: How to Transform Adolescents into Lifelong Readers Through Out-of-Class Book Clubs. She is also the coauthor of Teaching Literature to Adolescents with Richard Beach, Susan Hynds, and Jeffrey Wilhelm. Her book, Critical Encounters in High School English: Teaching Literary Theory to Adolescents was published jointly by Teachers College Press and the National Council of Teachers of English and is widely used in methods classes across the country.

Professor Keiser received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1989. His research focuses on progressive politics in America's big cities. In 1997 he published Subordination or Empowerment? which analyzed the formation and disintegration of coalitions that advance African-American political empowerment. He coedited Minority Politics at the Millennium, which was published in 2000. His current research examines the relationship between cities and suburbs in the current era. Prof. Keiser teaches the introductory course on liberty and equality in America, as well as courses on urban and suburban political economy, poverty and public policy, and the Presidency.

AFAM Liaison to European Studies, MARS and MMUF Program

Professor Kofi Owusu teaches and writes on African, African American, British, and Anglophone literatures; he served as the director of the African/African American Studies program for many years. Degrees: University of Ghana, B.A.; University of Edinburgh, M.Litt.; University of Alberta, Ph.D.

Jenny Wahl is Professor of Economics at Carleton College. She received her A.B. summa cum laude from Indiana University and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. Before joining the faculty at Carleton, Jenny taught at St. Olaf College and worked as an international tax economist at the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Tax Analysis. Jenny teaches intermediate price theory, intermediate and advanced labor economics, law and economics, American economic history, economics of the public sector, and principles of microeconomics. Her book on the economics of Southern slave law, The Bondsman’s Burden, was published by Cambridge University Press in 1998. http://books.google.com/books?id=wP1cwhocZ5IC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0.  She has published articles in the Journal of Economic History, Social Science History, National Tax Journal, American Journal of Legal History, Social Science Quarterly, and several other economics journals and law reviews. Among her recent publications are: “Give Lincoln Credit: How Paying for the Civil War Transformed the U.S. Financial System” (Albany Government Law Review), “Blacks, Whites, and Brown: Effects on the Earnings of Men and Their Sons” (Journal of African American Studies, with Nathan Grawe), “Edith Wharton as Economist:  An Economic Interpretation of The House of Mirth and The Age of Innocence” (The Edith Wharton Review) and “Stay East, Young Man? Economic Effects of the Dred Scott Decision” (Chicago-Kent Law Review). Jenny authored the chapter “The Economics of Slavery” in the recently published Encyclopedia of Law and Economics (Edward Elgar) http://www.e-elgar.com/bookimages/47205658.gif. She will have a chapter entitled “Dred, Panic, War:  How a Slave Case Triggered Financial Crisis and Civil Disunion,” in the forthcoming issue of U.S. Capitol Historical Society Papers (Ohio University Press). She has served as an expert lecturer on race in American history under a Teaching American History grant and as co-director of a workshop series on the law of slavery at the Gilder-Lehrman Center at Yale University.   Her current research includes an investigation of black-white labor-market inequality in the U.S. and an inquiry into the connections between income and wealth for American households.

Stephen Kelly (Music History, Jazz History) received the B.S. from Spring Hill College, the M.A. from Rutgers University, and the Ph.D. from The Ohio State University. He has been a Fulbright Scholar and has published editions of the music of Niccolo da Perugia and co-authored a video tape on the Medieval Monastery. He has also done research focused on the area of jazz reception and the music of Wynton Marsalis. Most recently he has presented "Joan Baez at Spring Hill: A Study of Intersecting Histories." Dr. Kelly served on the Board of Directors as Treasurer of the College Music Society from 1991 until 1995. In 1997 he was the Associate Dean of the College and served as the Dean for Budget and Planning from 1998 to 2004. He currently serves as Treasurer and Board Member of Laura Baker Services Association. He plays sax and clarinet in Occasional Jazz.