Emilye Crosby, Department of History, Coordinator of Africana/Black Studies Program
Emilye Crosby is an Associate Professor of History at SUNY Geneseo. She received her Ph.D. at the University of Indiana in 1995, and joined the faculty at Geneseo that same year. Professor Crosby is the author of A Little Taste of Freedom: The Black Freedom Struggle in Claiborne County, Mississippi, published by the University of North Carolina Press, 2006.
Also in 2006, Professor Crosby planned and hosted a conference called Local Studies, a National Movement: Toward a Historiography of the Black Freedom Struggle. This three day conference, held at Geneseo, brought together historians, civil rights movement veterans, and Geneseo students. Professor Crosby's teaching and research interests are African American History and Women's History, especially the Civil Rights Movement and other movements for social justice.
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Maria Lima, Department of English
Maria Helena Lima is a Brazilian who is an Associate Professor of English at SUNY Geneseo. “The Politics of Teaching Black and British” is her chapter in Black British Writing, edited by R. Victoria Arana and Lauri Ramey (Palgrave 2004). Obsidian III’s special issue on Black British Writing (Fall 2004) features both her article on Black British Women Writers and an interview with Kadija George Sesay. She has also published reviews of contemporary Black British fiction in SABLE, Wasafiri, and Humanitas. Lima has a chapter on a prize-winning Black British writer, “’Pivoting the Center’: The Fiction of Andrea Levy,” in Write Black, Write British: From Post Colonial to Black British Literature, Kadija George, ed. (Hansib 2005). She translated and co-edited with Miriam Alves a bilingual anthology of short fiction by Afro-Brazilian Women, Women Righting/Mulheres Escre-vendo [London: Mango Publishing, 2005]. Lima is currently working on a book of interviews, Black Britons Writing.
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Beth McCoy, Department of English
Beth McCoy is an Associate Professor in the English Department, which she joined in 1997. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Delaware in 1995. Professor McCoy 's teaching and research interests are in African American literature, critical race studies, and feminist studies.
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Rose-Marie Chierici, Department of Anthropology
Rose-Marie Chierici trained as a cultural anthropologist but her area of interest
is Third World development and especially Haiti. She is a practicing
anthropologist in that she combines research and applied work and uses
anthropological methods and theorie to address real life situations.
For the past twelve years Professor Chierici has led a community
development project in rural Haiti, Haiti Outreach-Pwoje Espwa
(H.O.P.E.). This NGO collaborates with grassroots organizations,
peasant and women's collaboratives to address the effects of
poverty in this isolated region through programs in health,
education, sanitation, and economic development. Professor Chierici was born in
Haiti and has taught at Geneseo since 1994.
"I am very interested in gender, migration, and medical
anthropology. All my courses, whether in Introduction to Cultural
Anthropology, the African Diaspora or Women in Cross-Cultural
Perspectives use cross-cultural perspectives to address race,
class, gender, and disparities. Other courses such as Traditional Systems of Healing, Global Health Issues and Third World
Development stress the importance of understanding the process of
globalization and the ways in which it influences relationships
among people and nation-states."
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Sample Syllabi:
Anthropology 216 African Diaspora