Ann Swidler Dept of Sociology religion, culture, Africa, AIDS, political sociology, theory, development, NGOs, public impact research/scholarship, community-engaged research/scholarship, research practice partnership, community-based research partnerships, social justice research
Ula Y. Taylor Dept of African American Studies 20th century African American history, African American women's history, black feminist theory, black nationalism
Soraya Tlatli Dept of French francophone literature, colonial and postcolonial studies, literature and psychoanalysis, twentieth-century continental philosophy
Bryan Wagner Dept of English community-engaged research/scholarship, research practice partnership, community-based research partnerships
William White Dept of Anthropology historical archaeology, African American archaeology, historic preservation, heritage conservation, community based participatory research
Martha Wilfahrt Dept of Political Science African politics, political economy of development, redistributive politics
Laurie Wilkie Dept of Anthropology anthropology, historical archaeology, oral history, material culture and ethnic identity, family and gender relations; North America, Northern California, Caribbean. Bahamas, African consumerism, creolization, multi-ethnic community
Frank C. Worrell School of Education development, education, cognition, academic talent development, adolescence, African American, at-risk youth, English-speaking Caribbean, ethnic identity, gifted, psychosocial development, racial identity, school psychology, teacher effectiveness, Trinidad and Tobago, time perspective