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Angela Siner, Director of Africana Studies
Angela M. Siner (M.A., University of Louisiana at Lafayette) is the director of The University of Toledo Africana Studies Program and director of the Anthropology Program in the Sociology and Anthropology Department. Ms. Siner鈥檚 areas of interest include African history (pre-colonial and post-colonial), Black history, Black intellectual history, the Black family, the Black church, and Black women in America.
Email听angela.siner@utoledo.eduAffiliated Faculty
Asma Abdel-Halim
Department of Women鈥檚 and Gender Studies
College of Arts and Letters
Email听asma.abdel-halim@utoledo.edu
Asma M. Abdel Halim (Ph.D., Ohio State University) is associate professor of women鈥檚 and gender studies. She graduated from the School of Law at the University of Khartoum in the Sudan with an LL.B. Honors in common law and Shari鈥檃, Islamic law; she also earned a master鈥檚 degree in commercial law. Her research focuses on Muslim women鈥檚 rights in Africa with a focus on feminism, women鈥檚 issues, legal and human rights under socio-cultural and religious mandates. She is currently interested in researching Sudanese laws from a feminist perspective, tracing in particular the evolution of laws that affect women鈥檚 rights.
Dr. Lesley M. Berhan
Department of Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering
College of Engineering
Email听lesley.berhan@utoledo.edu
Lesley Berhan (Ph.D., University of Michigan) is currently the associate dean for diversity, inclusion, and community engagement for the College of Engineering and an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering at The University of Toledo. Her research in engineering education focuses on issues related to student success, equity, access, and broadening participation in engineering. She joined the 果冻传媒 faculty in 2004.听
Ben Davis
College of Law
听Email听ben.davis@utoledo.edu
Law Professor Emeritus Ben Davis (J.D., Harvard University) has published dozens of articles on a wide range of topics related to international and domestic arbitration, online and offline dispute resolution, public and private international law, national security law, and contracts. He teaches in contracts, international law, international business transactions, commercial law, alternative dispute resolution, and international and domestic arbitration.
Dr. Rachel Dudley
Department of Women鈥檚 and Gender Studies
College of Arts and Letters
Email听rachel.dudley@utoledo.edu
Rachel Dudley (Ph.D., Emory University) 听is an assistant professor of women鈥檚 and gender studies at 果冻传媒 (WGST).听 Previously, she worked as the Program Coordinator and Advisor for the McNair Scholars Program at Cornell University. Dr. Dudley鈥檚 research interests pertain to histories of slavery and medicine and鈥攎ore broadly鈥攖o contemporary gender, race and health humanities topics.听 She has published articles in Disability Studies Quarterly, Synapsis: A Health Humanities Journal and Humanities.听 Dr. Dudley鈥檚 book chapter entitled, 鈥淏lack Feminist Fieldnotes: On Designing an Online, Health Humanities Course in WGST鈥� will be published in Health Humanities in Application.听 She also serves as a Co-PI for a National Endowment of the Humanities Grant, creating a health humanities minor at 果冻传媒.
Dr. Shingi Mavima
Department of History
College of Arts and Letters
Email听blessing.mavima@utoledo.edu
Shingi Mavima (Ph.D., Michigan State University) is an Assistant Professor in the history department. He specializes in contemporary Southern African history with a focus on the colonial and postcolonial periods, with additional scholarly interests in African literature and popular culture. His peer-reviewed publications include 鈥淏igger by the Dozens: The Prevalence of Afro-Based Tradition in Battle Rap", "A Historiographical Interrogation of Literature and Discourse on the Gukurahundi Massacres (1982- 1987)鈥�,听鈥淪tories of Struggle: The Intractability of Early African Fiction from Nascent African Nationalism in Rhodesia鈥�, and, most recently, 鈥淩aising her bones: Contextualizing the politicization of Nehanda鈥檚 legacy in the post-Mugabe era.鈥�
Dr. Monita Mungo
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
College of Arts and Letters
Email听monita.mungo@utoledo.edu
Monita H. Mungo (Ph.D., Wayne State University) serves as an associate professor of sociology. As a public sociologist, her research explains the causes of social inequities and their outcomes in the lives of marginalized people and exposes the social institutions that maintain unequal social policies and processes. Her most recent works, 鈥淢asks, Mandates, and Mayhem鈥� in COVID-19: Pandemic Pitfalls and Possibilities (2022, Routledge) and 鈥淰irus, Violence, and Vitriol: A Tale of COVID 鈥� 19鈥� in Sociology of COVID 鈥� 19: Social Consequences and Cultural Adaptations (2020, Routledge) examine citizens鈥� ability to remain safe while navigating a global health crisis. She wrote explaining the utility of Critical Race Theory to examine race and power in the United States. Dr. Mungo has appeared on a show and several news outlets, including Cincinnati Public Radio, explaining the controversial theory.
Michael Stauch
Department of History
College of Arts and Letters
Email听michael.stauch@utoledo.edu
Michael Stauch (Ph.D., Duke University) is an assistant professor of history with a focus on the modern United States. His research explores the politics of policing, and the intersection of race, class, and age in urban settings. His first manuscript, entitled The Age of Community Policing, is currently under contract with the University of Pennsylvania Press. His publicly engaged work has been published in The Washington Post,听and听he has presented at national conferences including the Organization of American Historians, the American Historical Association,听the Urban History Association, the Journal of Policy History, and the Labor and Working-Class History Association.听
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Part-time Faculty
Malaika-Beauta Bell
Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
听Email听malaika-beauta.bell@utoledo.edu
Malaika-Beauta Bell (M.A., The University of Toledo) is a two-time graduate of The University of Toledo. She has been working in the 果冻传媒 Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion since February of 2018 and feels lucky to have been able to teach for the Africana Studies Program since fall 2014 as an adjunct instructor. Malaika鈥檚 passion is the success of her students!
Dr. Jill M. Humphries
Africana Studies Program
College of Arts and Letters
Email听jill.humphries@utoledo.edu
Jill M. Humphries (Ph.D., University of Southern California) is an adjunct assistant professor and an international higher educational consultant. Dr. Humphries is a 2022 Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) College and University Workshop invitee, 2021 Fulbright Specialist Scholar to South Africa and a 2018 Ambassador Distinguished Scholar for Ethiopia. Currently. Dr. Humphries is an international facilitator with the Govan Mbeki Research and Development Centre at the University of Fort Hare in South Africa. As a scholar activist she has over 3 decades of engagement in educational and racial social justice work pertaining to Africa and the Black Diaspora. Her research interests include public, private, and nonprofit collaboration, international higher education, transnational political organizing, global racial, gender and sexuality formations, and environmental and legal studies. Most recently, she was featured on Ethiopian National TV for her life鈥檚 work and contribution to Pan Africanism.
Dr. Edwina Teye
Africana Studies Program
College of Arts and Letters
Email听edwina.kofiopata@utoledo.edu
Edwina Teye (Ph.D., The University of Toledo) has taught for the Africana Studies program since 2017, where she teaches a course on African Women and the Environment. She graduated from The University of Toledo with a doctoral degree in Spatially Integrated Social Sciences (SISS). She holds a master鈥檚 degree in Political Science and another in International Affairs. Her interests center on the intersection of human interaction with the built and natural environment, with specific focus on land uses and the impact on water quality through a social science lens and environmental advocacy through conservation and stewardship.
Dr. Tiffany Preston Whitman
Africana Studies Program
College of Arts and Letters
听Email听tiffany.whitman@utoledo.edu
Dr. Tiffany Preston Whitman (Ed.D., Bowling Green State University) is an adjunct professor in the University's Africana Studies Program. Dr. Whitman's areas of interest include African American culture and education and community-based education change. She is also an At-Large Member of Toledo City Council, where she chairs the Neighborhoods and Community Development Committee and serves on several other Council committees. Dr. Whitman is a proud alumna of Ohio State University鈥檚 African American and African Studies (B.A.) program, which inspired her to help others better understand the black experience.
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