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AFRICANA STUDIES
Africana Studies
326 Milbank Hall
www.barnard.edu/africana
This program is supervised by the Committee on Africana Studies:
Director of Africana Studies: Kim F. Hall (Lucyle Hook Professor of English)
Professor of French: Serge Gavronsky
Professor of Anthropology: Lesley Sharp
Assistant Professor of Anthropology: Brian Larkin
Assistant Professor of Dance: Paul Scolieri
Assistant Professor of English: Bashir Abu-Manneh
Assistant Professor of English: Monica Miller
Assistant Professor of French: Kaiama Glover
Assistant Professor of History: Abosede George
Senior Associate of English: Quandra Prettyman
For a complete list of
faculty on leave see:
http://www.barnard.edu/provost/facleavelist.html
The Africana Studies major offers an interdisciplinary, comparative approach to the study of the history, politics, cultures, literatures, and experiences of peoples of African origin in Africa and the African diaspora. In addition to fulfilling the requirements, students focus on a central subject, theme, or set of questions.
In consultation with the program director, each student chooses an adviser from among several departments and works closely with both to define a thematic concentration within the major.
Themes might include Gender and Africa; the Multicultural Caribbean; Media and Social Change; Culture and Politics in the African Diaspora; Prisons and Globalization; Literature, Arts, and National Identity.
A series of required courses spanning the disciplines, the junior colloquium, and the directed research provide a solid foundation for interdisciplinary study. The major offers training in methodology as well as in the use of primary and critical materials, and lays the foundation for the research and writing of a senior thesis.