Sign up for our newsletter and event information. Dr. Mitchells teaching and research interests are in African American literary and cultural studies; African American Studies; Black women writers; Black feminist theories; race and representation, race and politics, African American music, African American history, slavery in the US; the American South; gender and racial politics; and race in America. Shewas a Humanities Center Fellow at the University of Michigan during the 2017/18 academic year and is a recent recipient of the Shirley Verrett Award for outstanding teaching of performance. https://guides.library.georgetown.edu/afam, Booth Family Center for Special Collections, Instructional and Research Materials - COVID-19 Pandemic page, Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial 4.0 International License. Its important, says Taylor, to explore a much more diverse set of issues and challenges but also opportunities.. Sheearned aPh.D. in History from New York University andhas previously taught at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Idol Family ProfessorProfessor, Departments of African American Studies and Performing Arts. 37th and O St NW Angelyn Mitchell, Ph.D. This website works best with modern browsers such as the latest versions of Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge. | Details of our policy, Georgetown University Library The African Studies Program at the School of Foreign Service sponsors this certificate program available to all Georgetown undergraduates. A new open access course, Black Performance as Social Protest is under development for theFutureLearndigital platform. Dr. Robert J. Patterson is a professor of African American Studies and served as the inaugural chair of the Department of African American Studies at Georgetown University (2016-2019). Professor Lahra Smith, named director of AfSP in the fall of 2020. , has expressed a commitment to grow the selection of topics taught with regard to arts, music and environmental issues. She was recently Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and a Professor of Theatre at the University of Michigan where she promoted interdisciplinary and intercultural performance initiatives. Regional arm of the United Nations, mandated to support the economic and social development of its 53 member States. Her research project also examines the contemporary landscape of affordable housing policy and politics to better understand why low-income black women remain vulnerable to eviction, displacement, and housing insecurity in cities like the District of Columbia.
Dr. Gonzalez extends the reach of her scholarship through public engagement. If you continue with this browser, you may see unexpected results. Primary faculty members have the opportunity to have a joint or affiliate faculty status with other units (departments, programs, schools) that align well with the mission and intellectual interests of those units. Anita Gonzalez, Ph.D. 202-687-7607. LaMonda Horton-Stallings, Ph.D. Welcome to the African American Studies Research Guide! Data on population, health, HIV, and nutrition through more than 200 surveys in 75 countries. Has many online statistics for National Accounts, Labour Statistics, Industrial Statistics, Environmental Statistics, Trade Statistics, Agricultural Statistics, Prices, Education Statistics, Demographic Statistics, Health, Transport, Household Surveys, Population and Housing Census, the Statistics Act, Census Act, etc. Includes data, reports, and graphs. His current book project deconstructs mass political protest behavior most notably the Baltimore Uprising in an effort to understand how cross-cutting influences lead to these methods of resistance, but more importantly, how these influences also shape political agendas to simultaneously reinforce domination even in such acts of resistance. Case 349 - Universal Jurisdiction and the Rwandan Genocide: Global Justice or Vigilante Politics? Her research interests span the 19th-21stcenturies, from Harriet Tubman to Beyonc, and from poetics to performance. Includes data on social, economic, financial, natural resources, infrastructure, governance, partnership, and environmental indicators. Now heading into its 42nd year, AfSP leaders are looking to expand the programs academic offerings and continue to provide more opportunities for students to study and work in the African continent. , Moone was a prominent figure in the Civil Rights Movement and a strong proponent of strengthening bonds of solidarity between Black communities experiencing racism in the United States and their counterparts in apartheid South Africa. Guinea-Bissau and the Hazardous Waste Trade, Case 344 - From Civil War to Civil War: The Struggle for Peace in Sudan and South Sudan. 20057. In French. Dr. DayoF.Gore is an associate professor of African American Studies at Georgetown University. Some of his work appears inSouth Atlantic Quarterly,Black Camera: An International Film Journal,Religion and Literature,The Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion,The Cambridge Companion to African American Womens Writing,The Cambridge Companion to Civil Rights Literature, and theJournal of Popular Music Studies. Washington Dr. Mitchell editedWithin the Circle: An Anthology of African American Literary Criticism from the Harlem Renaissance to the Present(Duke UP, 1994), the first anthology of twentieth-century African American literary and cultural criticism, presenting twentieth-century African American intellectual history. She is also the editor (with Jeanne Theoharis and Komozi Woodard) ofWant to Start A Revolution? Radical Women in the Black Freedom Struggle; co-editor withSarah Haley and Prudence Cumberbatch of a special issue ofSouls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society, titled Black Women Labor: Economics, Culture and Politics (JanuaryMarch 2016) and most recentlycontributed an article to the collection We Could Turn this Whole World Over: Black Womens Internationalism in the Twentieth CenturyfromUniversity of Illinois Press(2018). Press, 2007). Additionally, her work presents the organizing challenges low-income black women tenant activists in D.C. face as they organize to combat the citys reduction and privatization of affordable housing. Currently, he is working on a book titledBlack Equity, Black Equality: Reparation and Black CommunitiesandUS Slave Narratives: A Very Short Introduction,which is under contract with Oxford University Press. Her innovative stagings of historical and cross-cultural experiences have appeared on PBS national television and at Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors, The Working Theatre, Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre, New York Live Arts, Tribeca Performing Arts Center, and other national and international venues. Real-time database tracking all reported international humanitarian aid. World Bank time series statistical data covering 1960 to the present, with forecast data for up to seven years, for the 210 countries reporting public and publicly-guaranteed companies. Dr. Soyica Colbertis a Professor of African American and Theater and Performance Studies at Georgetown University. Participants must take a total of six courses and demonstrate proficiency in an African language: Arabic, French, Portuguese, Spanish, or Swahili. Associate Professor of African American Studies. Dr. Zandria F. Robinson is a writer and sociologist working at the intersections of race, gender, popular culture, and the U.S. South. Dr. Patterson also has published articles on W.E.B. This website works best with modern browsers such as the latest versions of Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge. Her short librettoCourthouse Bellswill be produced by Boston Opera Collaborative in 2021-22. She is a member of several professional organizations, including the College Language Association, the Toni Morrison Society, the American Studies Association, and the Modern Language Association. Herwork has been supported by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard University and the Tamiment Library and Robert Wagner Labor Archives at New York University. Associate Professor of English and African American StudiesFounding Director, African American Studies Program, 2003-2013. At the end of 2021, the Henry Luce Foundation awarded AfSP and the Asian Studies Program a grant. https://guides.library.georgetown.edu/Africa, Booth Family Center for Special Collections, Kenya National Bureau of Statistics -- KNBS, National Bureau of Statistics -- Tanzania, African Development Bank -- African Statistical Journal, Afristat, l'Observatoire Economique et Statistique d'Afrique Subsaharienne, Botswana. Dr. MarcusBoard is an assistant professor of African American Studies at Georgetown University. Based in Bogota, Columbia. This guide highlights some of the key resources available for researching topics in African American Studies. She is co-editor and contributing author toBlack Sexual Economies: Race and Sex in a Culture of Capital(2019)andWord Hustle: Critical Essays and Reflections on the Works of Donald Goines(2011). In 2017, shecompletedher graduate studies at Rutgers University in the Womens and Gender Studies Department. Dr. Mitchell founded Georgetown Universitys African American Studies Program in 2003 and served as its first director from 2003-2013. Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1960s. Gonzalez also directs, devises and writes theatrical works. DayoF.Gore,Ph.D.Associate Professor of African American Studies. His current research uses neoliberalism and political behavior to make epistemological interventions with respect to domination and resistance. Use the menu to the left to explore specific resources. Funk the Erotic: Transaesthetics and Black Sexual Culturesreceived the Alan Bray Memorial Award from the MLA GL/Q Caucus, the 2016 Emily Toth Award for Best Single Work by One or More Authors in Womens Studies from the Popular Culture Studies Association/American Culture Association (PCA/ACA), and it wasa2016 Finalist for the 28th Annual Lambda Literary Awards for LGBTQ Studies. 
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She is the author ofThe Freedom to Remember: Narrative, Slavery, & Gender in Contemporary Black Womens Fiction(Rutgers UP, 2002), a study of gender, memory and history in contemporary novels about US slavery by Black women which posits that remembering is foundational to the afterlives of slavery. Former AfSP director, Scott Taylor stresses the need to move away from crisis narratives,, which often construct Africa as a monolithic entity perpetually contending with conflict, poverty and corruption. For too long African Studies have been placed on the back burner, said Moone. Dr. Robinsons first book, This Aint Chicago: Race, Class, and Regional Identity in the Post-Soul South (University of North Carolina Press, 2014) won the Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Outstanding Book Award from the Division of Racial and Ethnic Minorities of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Copyright 2022 Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown University. Dubois, Toni Morrison, African American Womens writing in the 19th and 20th centuries, civil rights, Tyler Perrys films, slaverys legacies, the film 12 Years a Slave, and rhythm and blues music and culture. She is also a recipient of the Georgetown College Deans Award for Excellence in Teaching (2015). She has published articles in theRadical History Review,Modern Drama,Performance Research International, andDance Research Journal.
2022 Office of the Vice President for Global Engagement. 37th & O Streets, N.W. Dr. Patterson has worked with governmental agencies, school systems, and other organizations to develop solutions that increase diversity, cultivate inclusion, and provide equity of access and outcomes. Zandria F. Robinson,Ph.D. Following the class, I focused my studies on global health in East Africa, engaged in public health research about a low-income community in South Africa and even traveled to Kenya during spring break to learn about development and global health, Cho says. Her interdisciplinary performance projects include projection mapping ofThe Snark (new window)andThe Living Lakes (new window)in the Duderstadt Center, developing a performance installation and lecture series titled Conjuring the Caribbean, leading a team to develop the interactive historical website19thCenturyActs (new window), and foundingAnishinaaabe Theatre Exchange (new window)in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan to engage Ojibwe communities in dialogue through theatrical performance. 2022 Office of the Vice President for Global Engagement, Skip to Georgetown Global Engagement Menu, Collaborative on Global Children's Issues, Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life, Initiative on Innovation, Development and Evaluation, Initiative for U.S.-China Dialogue on Global Issues, Institute for the Study of International Migration. Joint faculty are members of other units (departments, programs, schools) who also hold an appointment (either courtesy or shared) in the Department of African American Studies. She is available as a consultant for diversity training, inclusive teaching initiatives, and progressive curricular reforms, all areas of her expertise. D.C. Dr. Pattersons teaching interests and courses mirror his research projects and he has taught a range of courses that examine black cultural production, racial equity, and the legacies of slavery. Sponsored by the Walsh School of Foreign Service, the African Studies Program offers a graduate certificate and an undergraduate certificate or minor focusing on historical and contemporary aspects of political and cultural life on the African continent. She has alsopublished essays inAfrican American Review,South-Atlantic Quarterly,GLQ,Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society,the Journal of Bisexuality, Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire, Black Camera, Obsidian III, Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses, CR: The New Centennial Rveview, Western Journal of Black Studies, Feminist Formations, MELUS,and numerous edited collections. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial 4.0 International License. Dr. Rosemary Ndubuizu is an assistant professor of African American Studies at Georgetown University. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in the Department of Political Science, where he also earned an MA in 2011 and has a second MA in Social Sciences. Detailed data on Africa, containing over 1,600 indicators, covering 53 African countries from1961 to present. African Development Bank. Marcus Board, Jr., Ph.D.AssistantProfessor of African American Studies. She is the co-editor of theCambridge Companion to African American Womens Writing(Cambridge UP, 2009), a collection of essays chronicling the literary history and traditions of Black women writers from 18th century to the present. He has also appeared on MSNBC, Fox Soul, and the British Broadcasting Channel, as well as additional media platforms, to discuss his expertise in slaverys legacies, reparations, and racial equity more broadly. Her second monograph, Chocolate Cities: The Black Map of American Life (University of California Press, 2018), co-authored with long-time collaborator Marcus Anthony Hunter (UCLA), won the 2018 CHOICE Award for Outstanding Academic Title and the Robert E. Park Book Award from the Community and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association. With Africa coming into its own, however, it is becoming increasingly important that we have well-qualified representatives in Africa., This requires deconstructing Western mischaracterizations of the continent. 20057. Affiliate faculty are members of other units (departments, programs, schools) whose research and/or teaching interests align well with the mission of the Department of African American Studies. This focus on African agency undergirds AfSPs most recent initiative. Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. Georgetown University Office of the Vice President for Global Engagement, 37th and O Streets, N. W. Dr. Angelyn Mitchell is an associate professor in the Departments of English and African American Studies. At SFS, a school focused on international affairs, faculty and administrators responded to this wider movement by creating new curricula that incorporated the histories, politics and cultural experiences of Black communities outside the United States, namely in the African continent and its global diaspora. Her edited and authored books arePerformance, Dance and Political Economy(Bloomsbury),Black Performance Theory(Duke),Afro-Mexico: Dancing Between Myth and Reality(U-Texas Press), andJarochos Soul(Rowan Littlefield). Topics covered include population characteristics and growth, economic development and employment, education and social indicators. Washington 202-687-7607. This guide is not intended to be comprehensive. Choropleth mapping and data graphing for IMF time series, including variables from World Economic Outlook, Balance of Payments Statistics, Government Finance Statistics, AFR Regional Economic Outlook, and Joint IMF-OECD Statistics. If you continue with this browser, you may see unexpected results. Washington, DC 20057, We study a large continent that is often under-appreciated by the west for its innovation and creativity,, of the community of scholars and students she leads as the director of, (AfSP) at the Walsh School of Foreign Service (SFS). Full text articles. Both shared and courtesy joint faculty typically teach courses within the department, and typically enjoy the governance privileges and responsibilities accorded to faculty whose primary appointment resides within the Department. Information and documents on the Francophone West and Central African economic zone, Zone Franc CFA. Both tenure-line and non-tenure line faculty constitute our affiliate and are important members of our intellectual community, and their courses often are cross-listed to help the department deliver its curriculum. Originally from Inglewood, CA, Dr. Ndubuizu relocated to the Bay Area to complete her undergraduate studies at Stanford University. 37th & O Streets, N.W. Satellite imagery data and digital mapping data (in ArcINFO export format) and attributed data for African regions and countries. Chair and Professor of African American Studies. 
Please refer to the Library'sInstructional and Research Materials - COVID-19 Pandemic pagefor further information about accessing Library materials as we transition to a virtual learning environment. covered AfSPs conception and highlighted Moones involvement. In 2006, she moved to D.C. and eventually became a community organizer with OrganizingNeighborhood Equity DC, a D.C.-based community organization that organizes long-time Washingtonians of color to campaign for more local and federal investments in affordable housing and living-wage jobs. 
He is the author ofDestructive Desires: Rhythm and Blues Culture and the Politics of Racial Equality(Rutgers University Press, 2019) andExodus Politics: Civil Rights and Leadership in African American Literature and Culture(UVA Press, 2013), co-editor ofThe PsychicHold of Slavery: Legacies in American Expressive Culture(Rutgers University Press, 2016), and editor of the award-winningBlack Cultural Production After Civil Rights(University of Illinois Press, 2019). Dr. Anita Gonzalez is a professor of African American Studies and Performing Arts, and is co-founder and Research Professor of the Racial Justice Institute. With a growing, youthful and diverse population, the 55 countries of Africa provide so many educational and career opportunities for Georgetown students, she remarks. Statistics for Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroun, Centrafrique, Comores, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Gabon, Guinee-Bissau, Guinee Equatoriale, Mali, Mauritanie, Niger, Senegal, Tchad, Togo, Guinee-Bissau et la Mauritanie. She is currently working on two forthcoming book projects, a monograph, Becoming Free: An Intellectual Biography of Lorraine Hansberry, and a co-edited collection, Race and Performance After Repetition. Prior to joining the department, she was an Associate Professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies and the Critical Gender Studies program at the University of California, San Diego and Chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies and founding Director of the Black Studies Project at UCSD. Locals are superimposed on FAO soil and agro-climate maps of Africa. , Allie Cho (SFS22), describes how her freshman proseminar class, Africa in the American Imagination, cultivated her interest in African studies and led her to pursue in-depth research on public health in various African countries, including through the Kenya trip. Now in its seventh year. Rosemary Ndubuizu,Ph.D.AssistantProfessor of African American Studies. Gonzalez is a member of the National Theatre Conference, Lincoln Center Directors Lab, League of Professional Women in Theatre, the Players Club NYC, and the Dramatists Guild. Specifically, Dr. Board conducts interdisciplinary and mixed methodological analyses of political attitudes and behaviors, with a particular emphasis on variations across race, class, and gender. Colbert edited the Black Performance special issue ofAfrican American Review(2012) and co-editedThe Psychic Hold of Slavery(Rutgers University Press, 2016). In 2017, Dr. Mitchell was named byDiverse: Issues in Higher Educationone of 25 outstanding women leaders in higher education, making a difference in the world by tackling some of higher educations toughest challenges and exhibiting extraordinary leadership skills. In 2020, Dr. Mitchell received the Distinguished Leader Award from the GU African American Alumni Advisory Board. of Illinois Press, 2015);Mutha is HalfaWord! Learn More About Certificate in African Studies, Department of French and Francophone Studies, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University Office of the Vice President for Global Engagement, 37th and O Streets, N. W. Dr. Board earned his BAin Africana Studies and Political Science from the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) in 2007. brings business and policy leaders together to discuss how agriculture, entrepreneurship and technology can create sustainable growth in Africa. : Intersections of Folklore, Vernacular, Myth, and Queerness in Black Female Culture(Ohio State Univ. Professor of African American Studies. Rates 21 rich countries on how much they help poor countries build prosperity, good government, and security. Professor, Departments of African American Studies and Performing Arts. She created amassive open online course Storytelling for Social Change that has reached over 38,000 learners to date. Powered by Shopify, Case 211 - Key Decisions in the Somalia Intervention, Case 244 - Watershed in Rwanda: The Evolution of President Clinton's Humanitarian Intervention Policy, Case 267 - Shell in Nigeria: Corporate Social Responsibility and the Ogoni Crisis, Case 191 - Hazardous Waste Trade, North and South: The Case of Italy and Koko, Nigeria, Case 210 - Operation Restore Hope: The Bush Administration's Decision to Intervene in Somalia, Case 174 - The United States and South Africa: The 1985 Sanctions Debate, Case 225 - Sustainable Development or Environmental Imperialism? A pastor and longtime member of the NAACP who marched alongside the Rev. He currently serves as the Co-Chair of the College Boards Development Committee for its pilot course in African American Studies. Collectively, the faculty provide a vibrant intellectual community through which we are able to deliver the curriculum and meet the departments mission and learning objectives. Development Ecology Information Service's Map portal to sustainable rural development experiences. She is a founding member and past officer of the Toni Morrison Society, and she currently serves as a member of the Toni Morrison Societys Board of Directors. Dr.Goreiscurrently working on a book length study of black womens transnational travels and activism in the long twentieth century, forthcoming from Princeton University Press as part of its America in the World series. Produced by U.S. Geological Survey. Dr. Ndubuizus teaching interests include social policy, post-civil rights black politics, the black radical tradition including black feminism, social movements, the political economy of non-profits, and women of color feminisms. It looks like you're using Internet Explorer 11 or older. Her next monograph, Soul Power: Race, Place, and the Battle for the Memphis Sound (University of North Carolina Press) examines race, culture, and neighborhood change in South Memphis, former home of the renowned soul music factory Stax Records. Other musical writings includeZora on My Mindabout Black womens empowerment and entrepreneurship andYbor City the Musical (new window)about Cuban unionism and racial division in 1918. that offers lessons in international development and historical analysis through visits with governments, firms and development organizations. Dr. LaMonda Horton-Stallings received her Ph.D in English from Michigan State University. AfSP also leads a week-long alternative. If you have any questions, please email the American Studies Librarian Jieun Kang at jieun.kang@georgetown.edu. Regional statistical compendium. Soyica Diggs Colbert, Ph.D. The conference is the culmination of a student-led collaboration between the McDonough School of Business and AfSP, and this year features keynote speakers such as Strive Masiyiwa, founder and executive chair of Econet and Eloho Omame, general partner and co-founder of FirstCheck Africa. Empire Theme by Pixel Union. From Miniwatts Marketing Group. Colbert has published articles inAmerican Theatre, African American Review, Theatre Survey, Modern Drama,Boundary 2,South Atlantic Quarterly,Scholar and Feminist Online,andTheatre Topicsand in the collections:Black Performance Theory,Contemporary African American Women Playwrights,andAugust Wilson: Completing the Cycle. Robert J. Patterson, Ph.D. to pursue joint research on Africa-China relations. She is co-series editor forthe Dance in Dialogueseries at Bloomsbury Press. Shehas completed three Senior Scholar Fulbright grants and been a resident artist/scholar at Rockefellers Bellagio Center in Italy, and the Warfield Center for African and African American Studies at the University of Texas. Nonetheless, she continues, Our students are full of ideas about how to build pan-African connections, and I will work with them to continue this tradition., The programs creation responded, in part, to a, to establish Black studies programs in higher education, many of which later became departments of.
Dr. Goreis the author ofRadicalism at the Crossroads: African American Women Activists in the Cold War which charts the political commitments and strategic leadership of a network of black women radicals operating within the U.S. left from the 1930s through the 1960s. The Department of African American Studies faculty membership consists of three categoriesprimary, joint, and affiliateand these classifications provide a framework for articulating the faculty members relationships, rights, and responsibilities to our intellectual community. An interdisciplinary scholar who studies how housing policies are shaped by race, gender, political economy, and ideology, her manuscript-in-progress historically and ethnographically traces how low-income black women have been affected by post-1970s changes in public and affordable housing policies and advocacy. Dr. Robinsons teaching interests include Black feminist theory, Black popular culture, urban sociology, and Afro-futurism. Dr. Boards future research will continue to make justice and power related interventions pertaining to neoliberalism, capitalism, white supremacy and patriarchy all while maintaining an emphasis on the ways cooptation can dominate in the absence of observable conflict. 
