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The Faculty:

kimKim F. Hall

Kim F. Hall is the Director of Africana Studies and the Lucyle Hook Professor of English at Barnard. She holds an undergraduate degree from Hood College and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Pennsylvania. She has lectured nationally and internationally on nationally and internationally on Shakespeare, Black British Studies, Race Theory, renaissance women writers, visual arts, and pedagogy. She is the recipient of numerous academic and professional honors, including an ACLS fellowship, multiple Mellon and Folger Fellowships, and a NEH/Newberry Fellowship. She is the author of many articles and of two books, Things of Darkness: Economies of Race and Gender in Early Modern England, named a Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Book for 1996, and Othello: Texts and Contexts. Her current work focuses on the Anglo-Caribbean sugar trade during the seventeenth century.



cynnChristine Cynn

Christine Cynn is the Associate Director of Africana Studies at Barnard College where she has also been a Mellon Fellow. She was a Fulbright Lecturer/Researcher in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, where she taught at the University of Cocody and shot a documentary video (currently in postproduction) with women living with HIV. She has also directed, edited, and co-produced an HIV-prevention video for Brookdale Hospital and Diaspora Community Services, and co-produced a documentary on the Raboteau trial in Haiti. She received her Ph.D. in English from Columbia University in 2005.

 

 

 

joseJose Moya

Jose Moya received his Ph.D. in History from Rutgers University. He taught at UCLA for 17 years, and in 2005 came to Barnard, where he teaches Latin American history and World Migration. His book Cousins and Strangers: Spanish Immigrants in Buenos Aires, 1850-1930 won five prestigious awards and the journal Historical Methods (Winter, 2001) published a forum discussing its theoretical contributions to the field of migration studies. He has published numerous other works, has been a Burkhart Fellow in Rome, a Fulbright Fellow in Argentina (three times), and the recipient of an NEH fellowship and various other grants.