I am a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Connecticut and Affiliate Faculty in the Africana Studies Institute; the American Studies Program; the Institute for Collaboration on Health, Intervention, & Policy (InCHIP); and; the Political Science Graduate

Certificate Program in Race, Ethnicity, and Politics (REP).  I am also a Research Associate in “Critical Studies in Higher Education Transformation” at the Nelson Mandela University (Port Elizabeth, South Africa) and Affiliate Member of “Culture, Politics, and Global Justice” at the University of Cambridge (Cambridge, England).