Inaugural Chair
PhD, Rice University
Inaugural Chair, Department of African & African American Studies
Email: scfinley@lsu.edu
Office: 337 Hatcher Hall
Research Interests: African American Religious Traditions, African American Religious Thought , African American Religion and Esotericism, Religion and Psychoanalysis, Religion and Embodiment, Theory and Method in the Study of Religion, Religion in America
Ph.D., University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Associate Professor, Department of African and African American Studies
Email: sbecker@lsu.edu
Ph.D. McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
Assistant Professor, African and African American Studies
Research Interests: African literatures and cultures, poetry and poetics, cultural studies, nation and nationalism, minority studies, African historiography, folklore
Office: 341 Hatcher Hall
Email: morhero@lsu.edu
Ph.D., The University of Alabama
Assistant Professor, Department of African and African-American Studies
Email: tzevans@lsu.edu
Core Faculty
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PhD, University at Albany, State University of New York
Associate Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences
LSU Faculty Athletics Representative Louisiana State University
Phone: 225-578-1856
Email: lorim@lsu.edu
Office: 132B Hodges Hall, Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Research Interests: Race and Ethnicity, Wealth Inequality, Asset Poverty, Sociology of Sport
Ph.D., Indiana University
Russell B. Long Professor of Political Science, Psychology, and African & African American Studies
Office: 239 Stubbs Hall
Email: jamsulli@lsu.edu