Faculty Affiliates

About the Director

Dr. Jesse Bucher

Jesse Bucher is Associate Professor of History, Director of the Center for Studying Structures of Race, and Coordinator of the African and African Diaspora Studies Concentration at Roanoke College.  He has a PhD in African history from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities where he was a MacArthur Scholar at the Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change.  Prior to arriving at Roanoke College in 2012, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the  Centre for Humanities Research at University of the Western Cape.  Bucher’s research utilizes postcolonial and critical theory to interpret the history of political violence, colonialism, and racial politics in both Tanzania and South Africa.  He has worked on projects related to histories of public commemoration, memorialization, and monuments.  At Roanoke College he regularly offers courses on the history of slavery, on African history, and on black political movements throughout Africa and the African Diaspora. He can be reached at bucher@roanoke.edu.

Affiliated Faculty

Brent Adkins

Dr. Brent Adkins
Professor of Philosophy
adkins@roanoke.edu

Melanie Almeder

Dr. Melanie Almeder
John P. Fishwick Professor of English
almeder@roanoke.edu

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Shannon L. Anderson
Associate Professor, Director of Strategic Health Initiatives
slanderson@roanoke.edu

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Dr. Nadia I. Martinez-Carrillo
Assistant Professor
English and Communication Studies
nmartinez@roanoke.edu 

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Dr. Meeta Mehrotra
Department Chair of Sociology
Associate Professor of Sociology
mehrotra@roanoke.edu

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Dr. Teresa A. Milbrodt
Assistant Professor of English
milbrodt@roanoke.edu

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Chelsea N. Peters
Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies 
peters@roanoke.edu

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Dr. Alexander Ponomareff
Assistant Professor
CSSR Postdoctoral Fellow
ponomareff@roanoke.edu

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Dr. G Samantha Rosenthal
Assistant Professor, History
rosenthal@roanoke.edu

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Dr. Julia Sienkewicz
Associate Professor of Art History 
sienkewicz@roanoke.edu

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Lisa Stoneman
Associate Professor, Department Chair

stoneman@roanoke.edu

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Dr. Stella Y. Xu
John R. Turbyfill Professor of History
sxu@roanoke.edu

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Prof Grace Tessein
Visiting Assistant Professor
tessein@roanoke.edu

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Dr. Matthew Trumbo-Tual
Visiting Assistant Professor
trumbotual@roanoke.edu