Core Faculty
Dunning, Stefanie K.
Susan B. Anthony Professor
Professor of Black Studies
Professor of English
Director, Sexuality, Women, and Gender Studies
- Office Location
- 538 Lattimore Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-5115
Interests: Black ecologies; Queer ecologies; Queer theory; Black feminist theory; African American literature; Literary and cultural studies; Film and visual cultures
Ealey, Jordan
they/she
Assistant Professor of Black Studies
Interests: Black feminist theory and praxis; Black theatre and performance; Nineteenth and twentieth century Black intellectual history, sound studies, popular music, and Black girlhood studies
Ellapen, Jordache A.
Associate Professor of Black Studies
Associate Chair, Department of Black Studies
Interests: Visual Culture and Performance Studies; Indian Ocean Studies; Afro-Indian Studies; Indentureship and Slavery Studies; Black/African Feminist Thought; Black/African Queer Studies; Black Sexual Cultures; Porn Studies and Race; Black Pleasure Politics; Queer Diaspora Studies; Queer of Color Critique; African Fashion
Frierson, Karma
she/her/hers
Assistant Professor of Black Studies
Interests: Afro-Latin America; Cultural Politics of Leisure; Processes of Identification
Kemedjio, Cilas
Professor of Black Studies
Professor of Francophone and French Studies
- Office Location
- 406 Lattimore
- Telephone
- (585) 275--425
Interests: Francophone Caribbean and African literary and cultural studies; postcolonial theory; transnational black studies; humanitarianism
McCune, Jeffrey Q., Jr.
he/him/his
Frederick Douglass Professor
Associate Professor of English
Associate Professor of Black Studies
Founding Chair, Department of Black Studies
- Office Location
- 311B Morey Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 273-5346
Interests: Gender Studies; Sexuality Studies; Performance and Popular Culture; Visual and Cultural Studies; Black Queer Theory
McHarris, Philip V.
he/him/his
Assistant Professor of Black Studies
Interests: Racial inequality, housing, and policing
Omelsky, Matthew
Associate Professor of English
Associate Professor of Black Studies
Associate Professor of Visual and Cultural Studies
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Black Studies
- Office Location
- 417 Morey Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-2376
Interests: Global black cultural studies; African, African American, and Caribbean literatures; Film and media studies; Speculative aesthetics; Time and phenomenology; Critical theory