Faculty

Our faculty focuses on undergraduate curriculum in the field of Africana Studies which for us includes: African-American literature, folklore, arts, culture, history, and social issues; Caribbean literature, society, and politics; and African history, culture, literature, politics, and social issues.  Our faculty provides students with a range of courses and minors that compliment other majors, and a major that allows students to approach Africana Studies from a variety of methodological and geographical focuses.

We also support and encourage those students whose aim it is to become scholars and researchers in Africana Studies and who will contribute to the growth of the field. As such, we attempt to identify students who are capable of graduate study, and then mentor them as they complete their undergraduate training and prepare for graduate programs. Some of these students are our majors, while others, though they are interested in the areas we cover, have majored in other departments. 

More than just presenting the content material in our classes, as part of its teaching mission, the department aims to provide students with intellectual modalities for critiquing the racial and cultural issues that have shaped American society and the larger world of the African Diaspora. Furthermore, we present our content and concepts in a multi-disciplinary fashion, thus providing students with an array of investigative methods for learning what they are taught.  We believe that we provide an excellent model for introducing multi-disciplinary perspectives in academic discourse.