Jualynne E. Dodson

Professor Emerita

Jualynne E. Dodson is a professor in the Department of Sociology and the Graduate Program in African American and African Studies at Michigan State University. She founded and has directed the award winning African Atlantic Research Team (AART) for some 15 years and transferred with it to MSU from the University of Colorado, Boulder. Dodson earned a doctoral degree in sociology of religion from the University of California, Berkeley. She was a Ford Foundation post-doctoral Fellow and a Research Fellow at Princeton University, and taught at Yale University and the University of Colorado, Boulder before Michigan State University recruited her to its faculty.