2025-2026 Catalog

Faculty

Tenure and Tenure Track Faculty 

James Ford III, chair; designated transfer adviser 

Professor, Mary Jane Hewitt Department Chair in Black Studies

B.A., Morehouse College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Notre Dame

 

Erica Ball
Professor
B.A., Wesleyan University; M.A., Ph.D., The Graduate Center, City University of New York

Michael W. Murphy

Associate Professor

B.A., University of San Diego; M.A., Ph.D., Brown University

Yumi Pak
Associate Professor
B.A., University of California, Santa Cruz; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, San Diego

Tiffany Wheatland-Disu
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Black Studies
B.A. University of Iowa; M.A. The New School; Ph.D. Howard University

Other faculty associated with the Black Studies department can be viewed here.