Full-time Faculty
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Oscar de la Torre, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Director of the Honors Program
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Honore Missihoun, Ph.D.
Assistant Teaching Professor
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Tanure Ojaide, Ph.D.
Frank Porter Graham Professor of Africana Studies
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Debra C. Smith, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Associate Chair, Undergraduate Coordinator
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