Iqbal Akhtar
Associate Professor of Islamic Studies
Ph.D., University of Edinburgh, 2012
Islamic political thought, Khoja history, Shia Islam, Tanzania, Zanzibar
Office: Modesto A. Maidique Campus DM 322B
Contact: 305-348-7098 | iakhtar@fiu.edu
Rokeshia Ashley
Assistant Professor, Communication
Ph.D., University of Missouri, 2018
Health communication in body image and modification, maternal health, culturally competent strategies to improve black women and babies maternal mortality, interactions between patients and healthcare providers pre-, during, and post-natal, multi-cultural marketing communication
Office: Biscayne Bay Campus, ACII 339D
Contact: 305-919-4164 | rashley@fiu.edu | Website
Pascale Becel
Associate Professor of French
PhD, Unversity of California - Davis,1992
Women Studies, Reappraisal of Femenism in Colonial Context, African Literature in French and English
Office: Modesto A. Maidique Campus DM497B
Contact: 305-348-1944 | Pascale.Becel@fiu.edu
Agatha Caraballo
Associate Teaching Professor, Public Policy & Administration, Director, Maurice A. Ferré Institute for Civic Leadership
Office: Modesto A. Maidique Campus PCA 267B | PCA 354
Contact: 305-348-8490 I acarabal@fiu.edu
Lakhdar Boukerrou
Regional Director of FIU GLOWS
PhD, University of Minnesota,1986
International Development, Environmental Management, Capacity Building and Training, Project Management
Office: Modesto A. Maidique Campus MARC 430
Contact: 305.348.2494 | lboukerr@fiu.edu
Mitzi Carter
Assistant Teaching Professor, Global and Sociocultural Studies and Interim Director, Global Indigenous Forum
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2016
Cultural anthropology, Okinawa, world ethnographies, race and ethnicity, anthropology of globalization, Asian studies, world capitalism and the African diaspora in the Modern World System
Office: Modesto A. Maidique Campus SIPA 307
Contact: 305-348-2247 | mcarter@fiu.edu | Website
Phillip Carter
Associate Professor of English and Linguistics
PhD, Duke University, 2009
Sociolinguistics, Critical approaches to subject formation, Language and Identity, Ethnicity, and Gender, Linguistic Anthropology
Contact: 305-348-1149 | pmcarter@fiu.edu | Website
Shawn Christian
Associate Professor, English
Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
African American Literature, African American culture, literature of the long Civil Rights Movement, Literature of the Harlem Renaissance, Women and Gender Studies
Office: Modesto Maidique Campus, English Department
Contact: 305-348-2874 | shawn.christian@fiu.edu | {Website coming soon} |
John Clark
Chair and Professor of Politics and International Relations
PhD, University of Virginia, Foreign Affairs, 1992
Francophone Central Africa. Democratization, Ethnic Conflict, Economic Development, Sub-Saharan African Politics, Foreign Policy Analysis, Politics and Democratization, State-Society Relations
Office: MMC Campus, SIPA 433
Contact: 305.348.2556 | John.Clark@fiu.edu | Website
Nandini Dhar
Professor of English
PhD, University of Texas at Austin, 2013
Slavery commemorations in the Black Atlantic, Neo-Slave Narratives, Historical Novels on Slavery, Postcoloniality, Gender Studies and Comparative Studies of African and South Asian Plantation Diasporas
Office: Modesto A. Maidique Campus DM 466C
Contact: 305-348-1151| ndhar@fiu.edu | {website coming soon}
Trina Fletcher
Assistant Professor of Engineering Education
Ph.D., Purdue University, 2017
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in STEM, Black Wealth Building, Women and Girls in STEM, STEM at HBCUs, Informal STEM Learning
Office: Engineering Campus 1270
Contact: 305-348-0196 | trfletch@fiu.edu | Website
Jenna Gibbs
Assistant Professor of History
PhD, University of California Los Angels, 2008
British Atlantic (1760s-1840s). Circulation of Culture, Intellectual Thought, and Political Discourse Popular, Performative Culture
Office: Modesto A. Maidique Campus 385B
Contact: 305-348-3191 | jenna.gibbs@fiu.edu | Website
Brittany Gilmer
Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice
PhD, University of Toronto, 2013
Piracy in Somalia, transnational crime, international security, policing/penal institution in developing countries, combating terrorism
Office: Modesto A. Maidique Campus, PCA 369
Contact: 305.348.7917 | bgilmer@fiu.edu | Website
Tometro Hopkins
Associate Professor of English and Linguistics
PhD, Indiana University 1992
World Englishes, Pidgins and Creole, Gullah, Sociolinguistics, Anthropological Linguistics
Office: Modesto A. Maidique Campus DM 467B
Office: Biscayne Bay AC1 356
Contact: 305-348-3096
Contact: 305-919-5913 | Tometro.Hopkins@fiu.edu
Charles Jalloh
Professor of Law
Ph.D., University of Amsterdam, 2012
International law, criminal justice and human rights, Africa and the International Criminal Court, war crimes, and African legal studies
Office: Modesto A. Maidique Campus
Contact: 305-348-0199 | charles.jalloh@fiu.edu | Website
Shewonda Leger
Assistant Professor of English
Ph.D., Michigan State University, 2019
Rhetoric and writing, multilingual writing and pedagogy, Edwidge Danticat, social change, digital humanities
Office: Modesto A. Maidique Campus DM 453
Contact: 305-348-2874 | eleger@fiu.edu
Assefa Melesse
Associate Professor of Earth and Environment
PhD, University of Florida, 2002
Sub-Saharan Africa, Hydrologic Modeling, Ecohydrology, Surface and Groundwater Interactions Modeling, Water-Energy-Carbon Fluxes Coupling and Modeling, Remote Sensing Hydrology
Office: Modesto A. Maidique Campus ECS 339
Contact: 305-348-6518 | Assefa.Melesse@fiu.edu | Website
April Merleaux
Assistant Professor of History
PhD, Yale University, 2010
20th Century U.S.History, Cultural History, Commodities, Immigration, Race and Racial Formation, Food Studies
Office: Modesto A. Maidique Campus DM 371B
Contact: 305-348-7225 | amerleau@fiu.edu | Website
Roderick Neumann
Professor of Geography
PhD, University of California-Berkeley, 1992
Political Ecology, Cultural Geography, Social Theory, Conservation and Development, Landscape Studies, Environmental History, Africa, U.S. West, Europe
Office: Modesto A. Maidique Campus, SIPA 329
Contact: 305.348.2936 | Roderick.Neumann@fiu.edu
J. Janewa Osei-Tutu
Associate Professor of Law
J.D., Queen's University, 1997
LL.M., McGill University, 2002
Intellectual property, natural rights, and human rights; intellectual property and culture; intellectual property, human rights & corporations
Office: Modesto A. Maidique Campus RDB 2053
Contact: 305-348-1118 | janewa.oseitutu@fiu.edu | Website
Ulrich Oslender
Associate Professor of Geography
PhD, University of Glasgow, 2002
Political Geography, Cultural Geography, Political Ecology, Social Movements, Latin America, Colombia, Cultural Politics of Blackness, Forced Displacement, Geopolitical Discourses on Terror
Office: Modesto A. Maidique Campus, SIPA 324
Contact: 305.348.3651 | uoslende@fiu.edu
Mark Padilla
Professor of Global and Sociocultural Studies
PhD, Emory University, Doctor of Philosophy/ Anthropology, 2003
Ethnographic methods, globalization, critical medical anthropology, sexual tourism, Dominican Republic, HIV/AIDS and sexuality in Latin America and the Caribbean
Office: Modesto A. Maidique Campus SIPA 316
Contact: 305-348-1296| marpadi@fiu.edu
Carlene Vincent-Robinson
Assistant Dean, Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs, Teaching Professor, Criminology & Criminal Justice Faculty Fellow for Social Justice and Inclusion and Student Access and Success Division of Academic and Student Affairs
Office: Modesto A. Maidique Campus, SIPA 526
Contact: Main: 305.348.7266 | Direct: 305.348.1288|vincentc@fiu.edu
Vrushali Patil
Associate Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies
PhD, University of Maryland, 2006
Globalization in Historical Perspective, Transnationalism, Colonial and ‘Postcolonial’ Constructions of ‘Race,’ Gender, Sexuality, Culture, Nation, Feminist Theory/Social Theory/Postcolonial Theory/Critical Race Theory , ‘Postcolonial’ or ‘Third World’ Negotiations of Modernity, Tourism and Diaspora
Office: Modesto A. Maidique Campus, DM 210
Contact: 305.348.0519 | Vrushali.Patil@fiu.edu
Tudor Parfitt
Research Professor in the School of International and Public Affairs; President Navon Professor of Sephardi and Mizrahi Studies, Department of Religious Studies
M.A. (Oxon) D.Phil., FRSA, FRGS, FRHistS
Hebrew and Hebrew Literature, Jewish Studies, Jewish/ Muslim Relations, Attitudes Toward Jews and Zionism in South Asia and Jews in Asia and Africa, Judaising Movements
Office: Modesto A. Maidique Campus DM 302
Contact: 305-919-4154 | tparfitt@fiu.edu
Valerie Patterson
Clinical Professor
PhD, Florida International University,1995
Human resource Policy and Management, Administrative and Governmental Ethics, Organization Theory and Behavior, Contemporary Race and Gender issues, Nexus between Government and Hip-Hop culture, the Deconstruction of Bureaucratic Dysfunction, and the Construction and Development of Hip-Hop Epistemology
Office: Modesto A. Maidique Campus PCA 367A
Contact: 305.348.0425 | Valerie.Patterson@fiu.edu
Jean Muteba Rahier
Professor of Anthropology and African & African Diaspora Studies
Ph.D., Université de Paris X, Nanterre, France, Sociology, 1994
Multiculturalism, ethnoracial law, Afrodescendants’ human rights,the Memorialization of the Slave Trade in West Africa, inter-racial intimacy in the Belgian Congo
Office: Modesto A. Maidique Campus SIPA 328
Contact: 305-348-2246 | jrahier@fiu.edu
Marcie Washington
Associate Teaching Professor and Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies
Politics and International Relations
Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs
Office: Modesto A. Maidique Campus SIPA 414
Contact: 305-348-3754
Daniel Royles
Associate Professor of History
Ph.D., Temple University, 2014
United States history, African American life and culture, public health, sexuality, social movements, and the human body
Office: Modesto A. Maidique Campus DM 385B
Contact: 305-348-3191 | droyles@fiu.edu | Website
Heather Russell
Professor of Literature; Vice Provost, Faculty Leadership & SuccessPhD, Rutgers, University, New Jersey, 2002
Intersections of Race, Gender, and Class, Postcolonial Literature in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean
Office: Modesto A. Maidique Campus DM 465B
Contact: 305-348-3369 | heather.russell@fiu.edu | Website
Shimelis Setegn
Program Executive Officer, GLOWS, Assistant Professor of Research, EOH
PhD, KTH-Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, 2010
Environmental, hydrological and hydrodynamic modeling, watershed dynamics, predicting impact of climate and land use changes on water resources, agriculture, and populations, GIS and remote sensing applications in the environment and water resources.
Office: Office: BBC-AC1 268, MMC-AHCII 595A
Contact: (305) 919-4122 (BBC) (305) 348-2327 | ssetegn@fiu.edu
Vicky Silvera
Head, Special Collections, University Archivist, Curator
Office: Modesto A. Maidique Campus, GL 422A
Contact: 305-348-316 | silverav@fiu.edu | Website
Derrick Scott
Instructor of Geographic Information Systems/Geography and Social Sciences
PhD, University of Maryland, College Park, 2012
Geographic Information Systems, Urban Geography, Geo-Economics/Politics, Housing issues, New-Urbanism, Smart Growth, Areas, West Indies, US Cities, Sub-Saharan Africa
Office: Modesto A. Maidique Campus, SIPA 306
Contact: 305.348.2752 | Derrick.Scott@fiu.edu | Website
Juan Torres-Pou
Professor of Spanish
PhD, Rutgers, University New Brunswich,1990
Office: Modesto A. Maidique Campus DM 492A
Contact: 305-348-6223 | Torres-pou@fiu.edu
Chantalle F. Verna
Associate Professor of History and International Relations
PhD, Michigan State University, East Lansing, 2005
The culture of inter-American Relations, Haiti and the United States during mid 20th Century
Office: Modesto A. Maidique Campus DM 385A
Contact: 305-348-0180 | Chantalle.Verna@fiu.edu | Website
Donna Weir-Soley
Associate Professor of English
PhD, University of California-Berkley, 2000
African American and African Caribbean Literature. Written and Performance Poetry, Fiction, Creative Non-Fiction
Office: North Campus AC1 350
Contact :305-919-4817 | Weir_Soley@fiu.edu | Website
Kirsten Wood
Associate Professor of History
PhD, University of Pennsylvania, 1998
American South, Women's History, Gender, Slavery, and African American History
Office: Modesto A. Maidique Campus VH 207
Contact: 305-348-2803 | Kirsten.Wood@fiu.edu | Website
Albert Wuaku
Associate Professor of Religious Studies
PhD,University of Toronto, Canada, 2004
History of African and African Diaspora Religions, Socio-Anthropological Approaches to the Study of Religion and Diaspora Hinduism. Religious Globalization, Religion and Peace, and the Connection between Religion, Health and Healing
Office: Modesto A. Maidique Campus DM 302
Contact: 305-348-6768 | Albert.Kafui_Wuaku@fiu.edu
Kirsten Edwards
Associate Professor, Educational Policy Studies
Mentor Professor, Office to Advance Women, Equity, & Diversity
College of Arts, Sciences, & Education
Office: Modesto A. Maidique Campus SIPA 414
Contact: ktedwards@fiu.edu
Alexandra Cornelius
Associate Teaching Professor; Director, Center for Women's & Gender Studies
Office: Modesto A. Maidique Campus DM 213
Contact: 305-348-2408 I acornel@fiu.edu