Interdisciplinary:
Global Black Studies Faculty (Board of Study)

Kim Christensen
Associate Professor of Economics
School of Natural and Social Sciences
B.A., Earlham College; Ph.D., University of Massachusetts. SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. Political economy; feminist theory; political economy of AIDS; race, gender, and class.
kim.christensen@purchase.edu

Rudolf Gaudio
Associate Professor of Anthropology
School of Natural and Social Sciences
B.A., Yale University; M.I.A., Columbia University; Ph.D., Stanford University. Language, communication, and media; gender; sexuality; race and ethnicity; space, place, and global capitalism; Africa.
rudolf.gaudio@purchase.edu

John Howard
Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Sociology
School of Natural and Social Sciences
B.A., Brandeis University; M.A., New York University; Ph.D., Stanford University; J.D., Pace University. Criminal law; First Amendment and censorship issues; social stratification; integration of African-American literature and art into social studies curricula; African-Americans and the film industry.
john.howard@purchase.edu

Paul Kaplan
Professor of Art History
School of Humanities
B.A., Hampshire College; M.A., Ph.D., Boston University. The Renaissance; Venetian art; representation of Africans in Western art.
paul.kaplan@purchase.edu

Shaka McGlotten
Assistant Professor of Media, Society, and the Arts
School of Natural and Social Sciences
B.A., Grinnell College; Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin. Relationships between race, desire, and technology; the bleed between public and private life, and the impact of virtual technologies; the technoscientific transformation of black diasporic life and consciousness.
shaka.mcglotten@purchase.edu

Rex McKenzie
Assistant Professor of Economics
School of Natural and Social Sciences
B.A., Sussex University; M.A., Ph.D., New School for Social Research. Political economy of development, with emphasis on the English-speaking Caribbean; interaction of globalizing forces and the Caribbean economies.
rex.mckenzie@purchase.edu

Karima Robinson
Assistant Professor of Drama Studies
School of Humanities
B.A., Wellesley College; M.A., Ph.D., Northwestern University. African and African-American theatre; American dance theatre; Western theatre traditions; critical performance ethnography; performance studies theory; postcolonial Caribbean theatre; African diasporic feminist theory.
karima.robinson@purchase.edu

Ronnie Scharfman
Professor of French and Literature
School of Humanities
B.A., Bryn Mawr College; Licence-ès-Lettres, Maitrise-ès-Lettres, University of Aix-en-Provence; M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University. French and Francophone and postcolonial literature; contemporary European literature.
ronnie.scharfman@purchase.edu

Peter Schwab
Professor of Political Science
School of Natural and Social Sciences
B.A., Fairleigh Dickinson University; M.A., Ph.D., New School for Social Research. SUNY Chancellor’s Research Recognition Award. Human rights; the Middle East; U.S. foreign policy; African politics.
peter.schwab@purchase.edu

Updated July 23, 2008