Faculty Affiliates
About the Director
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

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

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

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

Karin Kaerwer
Lecturer
kaerwer@roanoke.edu

Dr. Srikanth Mallavarapu
Associate Professor
mallavarapu@roanoke.edu

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

Jennifer McCloud
Associate Professor
mccloud@roanoke.edu

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

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

Dr. Carrie Murawski
Assistant Professor
murawski@roanoke.edu

Dr. Edward Nik-Khah
Professor
nik@roanoke.edu

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

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

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

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

Lisa Stoneman
Associate Professor, Department Chair
stoneman@roanoke.edu

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

Dr. Sarah Murray
Assistant Professor
murray@roanoke.edu

Prof Grace Tessein
Visiting Assistant Professor
tessein@roanoke.edu

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