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      Writing, Rhetoric, and American Culture Art English
      Linguistics and African Languages Philosophy Religious Studies
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      Writing, Rhetoric, and American Culture
      Clarence O. Hooker, Associate Professor: hooker@msu.edu. Nigeria. Economic history of West Africa

      Denise Troutman Ph.D., Associate Professor: E-mail: troupma1@msu.edu.
      Website: http://www.msu.edu/~wrac/faculty-staff/troutman.htm. Teaching and research interests include: developmental and first-year writing, language and society, discourse analysis, women and language, African American women’s discourse patterns, African American English .       
      Art
      Peter Glendinning, Professor: glendinn@msu.edu. Website: http://www.art.msu.edu/people/glendinning.html South Africa. Visiting Professor of Art and consultant on MSU linkages.

       Marsha L. MacDowell, Professor & Curator of Folk Arts: MSU Museum: macdowel@msu.edu South Africa. Traditional crafts (basketry, textiles, and beadwork).
      English

      Kenneth J. Harrow, Professor: harrow@msu.edu. Cameroon, Burkina Faso, Senegal, North Africa. Ideology and culture in African literature, African cinema.

      Salah Hassan , Associate Professor: hassans3@msu.edu. Website: http://www.msu.edu/unit/engdept/newgrad/postcolonial.htm

      Geneva Smitherman, University Distinguished Professor: smither4@msu.edu. Website: http://www.msu.edu/~smither4 South Africa, West Africa. Language use and the source of African-American expressions, language policy and planning.

      Robert Vassen, Associate Director of the English Language Center vassen@msu.edu. South Africa. Teaches English as a Foreign Language to adults from a number of countries including Francophone Africa

      Jeffrey Wray, Assistant Professor:       wrayj@msu.edu.

      Linguistics and African Languages

      Malik Balla, Lecturer: balla@msu.edu. Website: http://msu.edu/~linglang/balla.htm Sudan. Arabic instruction, research in educational administration.
      Johanna Brown, Visiting Instructor: jkbrown@msu.edu.       Arabic instruction.

      Ibro Chekaraou, Coordinator, African Language Program, focus Hausa, Second Language Acquisition: ichek@msu.edu.       http://msu.edu/~ichek/

      John B. Eulenberg, Professor: eulenber@msu.edu. URL:       http://www.msu.edu/user/eulenber/. Nigeria, Hausa. Voice output communication systems for non-speakers.

      David Dwyer, Professor Emeritus:       E-mail: dwyer@msu.edu URL: www.msu.edu/user/dwyer. Cameroon, Liberia, Sierra Leone. Language and culture (ideology), Mande linguistics (comparative and phonology (tone), African language programming (learner centered learning and supervised tutorials).

      Margo Glew, Specialist, Coordinator, Less Commonlly Taught Languages Program: E-mail: glewmarg@msu.edu. Website: http://www.msu.edu/~linglang/linguistics/glew/htm

      Grover Hudson, Professor: E-mail: hudson@msu.edu Website:       http://www.msu.edu/~Hudson/. Egypt, Ethiopia. Ethiopian and Afroasiatic languages. Focus Amharic

      Deogratias S. Ngonyani, Associate Professor: E-mail: ngonyani@msu.edu. Website: http://www.msu.edu/~linglang/linguistics/ngonyani.htmEast Africa and Tanzania. African Language and Linguistics Education, Swahili and Bantu.

      Philosophy
        Stephen Esquith, Chairperson, Professor, Ethics of Development, focus Mali: esquith@msu.edu. Website: http://www.msu.edu/~esquith/  
      Religious Studies
        Alford T. Welch, Professor: welch@msu.edu. Website: http://www.msu.edu/~welch Islamic world. Historical and literary analyses of the Qur'an, early history of Islam.
      Romance and Classical Languages
      Safoi Babana-Hampton, Assistant Professor: babanaha@msu.edu. Website: http://www.fci.msu.edu/facultyandstaff/babana-hampton.php Francophone Literatures and cultures of the Maghreb, West Africa and the Antilles; Cultural Studies; Postcolonial Literature, Theory, and Cinema; Twentieth-century French and English novels.

      Anna Norris, Associate Professor: norrisa@msu.edu.       French, Classics & Italian

      Laurence Porter, Professor: porter@msu.edu. French, Classics & Italian
      School of Music
      Mark Johnson, Professor: johnso73@msu.edu. Website: http://www.music.msu.edu/faculty/faculty.php?id=7

      Isaac Kalumbu, Assistant Professor: kalumbu@msu.edu.       Zimbabwe, Southern Africa. Music of Africa and the African Diaspora

          
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