Dr. Francis DubeAssociate Professor
History and GeographyDr. Francis Dube is an Associate Professor of History at Morgan State University, where he teaches African history, Environmental history, and World history. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa. His research interests are in the history of medicine and public health, global health, and environmental history. He is the author of Public Health at the Border of Zimbabwe and Mozambique, 1890–1940: African Experiences in a Contested Space(Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). Dr. Dube is currently working on his second monograph tentatively titled, Livestock Diseases, the Environment and History in Zimbabwe, 1890-1954.
You can learn more about Dr. Dube here: https://www.morgan.edu/history-and-geography/faculty-and-staff/francis-dube
Dr. Denise Jarrett
Associate Professor / Acting Director
Women, Gender, and Sexuality StudiesDenise M. Jarrett, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor at Morgan State University, specializing in Caribbean Literature and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies in the Department of English and Language Arts. At Morgan State, she currently serves as Director, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of English and is a University Marshal. She has a special interest in Caribbean Literature, Postcolonial Literature, Ethnic and Cultural Studies, Black Cultural Productions, Adolescence Literature, and Women and Gender Studies. Mainly using postcolonial readings, her scholarship publications include encyclopedia biographies, journal articles, and book chapters on Caribbean authors’ works, postcolonial multicultural studies, and gender studies.
Dr. Jarrett is a reviewer on Postcolonial and Ethnic and Cultural Studies for CHOICE and a peer reviewer for several literary organizations. She serves on alumni committees and is cofounder and board member of The A. Oliver and Inez Frazer Scholarship Fund (AOIF), Jamaica.
Dr. Jarrett’s notable awards are Morgan State University-Certificate of Service, 2019 and The Mico University College’s 185th Commemorative Awards (“The Quintessential Miconian who embodies the high ideals of your alma mater” Jamaica), 2021.
Dr. Natasha Pratt-HarrisAssociate Professor
Sociology & AnthropologyDr. Natasha C. Pratt-Harris is an associate professor and coordinator of the graduate programs in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Morgan State University in Baltimore, MD. She is also a trained statistician and methodologist. She has published in the peer-reviewed African Journal of Criminology and Justice Studies. She is currently conducting a qualitative research study about Black males who report that they have wrongful convictions on their criminal record.
Dr. Pratt-Harris teaches Community-Based Corrections, Criminology, Jails and Prisons, Juvenile Delinquency, Research Methods (also in Criminal Justice), Police and Society, Social Problems, the Sociology of Deviance, the Sociology of Law, and Statistics, where she addresses “dis-proportionality” at various stages throughout the juvenile and adult criminal justice system. Dr. Pratt-Harris also supervises students who are interning with criminal justice agencies. She is currently co-writing (submitted) an interdisciplinary article for the Journal of Human Behavior for the Social Environment that critically assesses police-involved shootings (homicides) of unarmed black males.
