I am a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Connecticut.  At the University of Connecticut I also serve as Affiliate Faculty in the Africana Studies Institute; the American Studies Program; the Institute for Collaboration on Health, Intervention, & Policy (InCHIP), and; the Graduate Certificate/Masters Program in Race, Ethnicity, & Politics (REP). 

I am also a Research Associate in “Critical Studies in Higher Education Transformation” at Nelson Mandela University (Port Elizabeth, South Africa); International Collaborator with the “Research Group on Gender, Identity, and Diversity” at the University of Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain), and; Affiliate Member of “Culture, Politics, and Global Justice” at the University of Cambridge (Cambridge, England).