William Paterson University




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	Program Description
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	Curriculum
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	Course Descriptions
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	Departmantal Events
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	Faculty
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	Contact Information
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Faculty

Chairperson: Dr. Lawrence Mbogoni

Office: Atrium 229
Phone: 2987
Email: mbogonil@wpunj.edu

Full Time Faculty

	Office	Phone	Email
Dr. Lawrence Mbogoni	Atrium 229	X-2987	mbogonil@wpunj.edu
Dr. O.B. Traore	Atrium 231	X-2579	traoreo@wpunj.edu
Prof. Kamau Kenyatta	Atrium 231	X-3036	wakenyattak@wpunj.edu
*Emeritus* Dr. Paul Chao	Atrium 233	X-3042	chaop@wpunj.edu

Adjunct Faculty
* Dial 720-3800 and respective extensions

	Office	Phone	Email
Prof. David Barnes	Hunzinker Hall 132	*X-1237	barnesd@wpunj.edu
Prof. Christopher Harris	Hunzinker Hall 132	*X-1238	harrisc@wpunj.edu
Prof. Michael Butler	Hunzinker Hall 132	* X-1105	butlerm@wpunj.edu
Prof. Kamau Shabaka	Hunzinker Hall 132	* X-1104	shabakak@wpunj.edu
Prof. Al-duha Safforld	Hunzinker Hall 132	*X-2506	alduhas@wpunj.edu
Prof. Yvonne Nambe	Hunzinker Hall 132	*X-1101	nambey@wpunj.edu
Prof. Gabriel Okafor	Hunzinker Hall 132	*X-1140	okaforg@wpunj.edu
Prof. Enabulele Harris	Hunzinker Hall 132	*X-1102	harrise@wpunj.edu
Prof. Arturo Lewis	Hunzinker Hall 132	*X-1102	lewisa@wpunj.edu
Prof. Freda Isaacs-McClean	Hunzinker Hall 132	*X-1102	mccleanf@wpunj.edu
Prof. Maureen Ntutela-Murangi	Hunzinker Hall 132	*X-1102	ntutelamurangim@wpunj.edu
Prof. Emeka Onwubu	Hunzinker Hall 132	*X-1102	onwubue@wpunj.edu
Prof. Dwayne Warren	Hunzinker Hall 132	*X-1102	warrend@wpunj.edu
Prof. Rudolf Raines	Hunzinker Hall 132	*X-1102	rainesr@wpunj.edu
Prof. James M. Richardson	Hunzinker Hall 132	*X-1129	richardsonj@wpunj.edu

Affiliated Faculty

	Office	Phone	Email
Dr. Sherle Boone Psychology	Science Hall 261	X-3394	boones@wpunj.edu
Dr. Wartyna Davis Pol. Science	Science Hall 238	X-2177	davisw@wpunj.edu

Staff
Sherry Capers-Dock
Office: Atrium 227
Phone: X-3027
Email: capersdocks@wpunj.edu

The major courses are presently taught by six full-time professors. The program is also supported by five allied faculty members from other departments and a varying number of adjuncts. Some faculty members have held prestigious fellowships, served in government and public service, the United Nations, New York and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Paris.

The faculty provides a broad range of expertise in all the critical areas of African, African-American and Caribbean Studies. The faculty have published book-length studies, book chapters, reviews, articles, creative writing, translations in national and international refereed journals and magazines; edited critical and creative anthologies, special issues of journals in the field; written and/or produced plays, TV documentaries, feature films. The Visiting Distinguished Professor incumbents have included noted playwright, Douglas Turner-Ward; TV and film writer, William Branch; anthropologist, linguist and literary critic, Ivan Van Sertima; Caribbean novelist, George Lamming; activist playwright and literary critic, Amiri Baraka; African political scientist, the Claude Ake; Nigerian literary critic, Joel Adedeji; sociolinguist, Dr. Faye McNair-Knox; epidemiologist, Delroy Louden; mass media specialist Alice Tait; and jazz scholar and educator, Yusef Ali.