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The Africana Studies program is able to offer a rich curriculum because it draws upon the expertise
of faculty from all over the campus, whose teaching and scholarship
cover an impressive array of academic fields: literatures, history,
sciences, the arts, sociology, political science, and education are
all represented in the courses offered, and cross-listed, in the program.
Faculty
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Staff
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Recent faculty honors
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Timothy Longman was a visiting fellow at the Human Rights Center at the University of California, Berkeley, 2001-2006. He has worked
on research projects on post-genocide Rwanda funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Hewlett Foundation, and
the Sandler Family Supporting Foundation. In 2003, he and two colleagues were awarded a grant from the United States Institute for
Peace, with additional funding from the MacArthur Foundation, to work with the Rwandan Ministry of Education on developing a new
history curriculum for Rwandan secondary schools.
- Women at Sea: Travel Writing and the Margins of Caribbean
Discourse, a collection of essays co-edited with Ivette Romero-Cesareo
(Marist College), was published in January (2001) by St. Martin's/Palgrave.
It includes Ms. Paravisini-Gebert's essay "Cross Dressing
on the Margins of Empire: Women Pirates and the Narrative of the
Caribbean."
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Healing Cultures: Art and Religion as Curative Practices
in the Caribbean, a collection of essays co-edited with Margarite
Fernandez Olmos (Brooklyn College), was published in February
2001 by St. Martin's/Palgrave.
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The Dominican Republic: Literature and Culture, a special
volume of Callaloo (23:3, Summer 2000), co-edited with Consuelo
Lopez Springfield (University of Wisconsin at Madison), appeared
in January 2001. It includes Ms. Paravisini-Gebert's essay
"Allotropes: The Short Stories of Angela Hernandez Nunez"
and her translations of 12 short stories by contemporary Dominican
writers.
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"'Self-Styled Columbuses': The Discovery and
Exploration of Dominica's Boiling Lake" appeared in
the current volume of the Jean Rhys Review (11:2, Spring
2001).
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Published
"Saturday Sinners and Sunday Saints: The
Nightclub as Urban Menace in 1940s Race Movies," in John
Giggie and Diane Winston, eds., Faith in the Market: Religion
and The Rise of Urban Commercial Culture (Rutgers University
Press, 2002).
- Hollywood Be Thy Name: African-American Religion in American Film,
1929-1949 (University of California Press, 2007)
- "Truths that Liberate the Soul: Eva Jessye and the Politics of Religious Performance," in R. Marie Griffith and Barbara D. Savage, eds., Women and
Religion in the African Diaspora: Knowledge, Power, and Performance (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006)
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