Africana Studies (AFCA)

Africana Studies is an interdisciplinary program which offers a minor that spans several disciplines, including art, history, literature, music, politics, and sociology.

Program Head: Theodore C. DeLaney

Core Faculty

First date is the year in which the faculty member began regular faculty service at the University. Second date is the year of appointment to the present rank.

Niels-Hugo Blunch, PhD.—(2006)-2012
Associate Professor of Economics
Ph.D., George Washington University

Marc C. Conner, Ph.D.—(1996)-2008
Jo. M and James M. Ballengee Professor of English
Ph.D., Princeton University

Theodore C. DeLaney, Ph.D.—(1995)-2001
Associate Professor of History
Ph.D., College of William and Mary

J. Tyler Dickovick, Ph.D.—(2004)-2010
Associate Professor of Politics
Ph.D., Princeton University

Timothy M. Diette, Ph.D.—(2004)-2013
Associate Professor of Economics
Ph.D., University of North Carolina

Robert Matthew Gildner, Ph.D.—(2012)-2012
Assistant Professor of History
Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin

Mohamed Kamara, Ph.D.—(2001)-2008
Associate Professor of Romance Languages
Ph.D., Tulane University

Lucas E. Morel, Ph.D.—(1999)-2009
Class of 1960 Professor of Ethics and Politics
Ph.D., Claremont Graduate School

David Robert Novack, Ph.D.—(1976)-1988
Professor of Sociology
Ph.D., New York University

Courses listed below meet the requirements of the Africana studies minor, but other courses across the curriculum that include an appropriate proportion of material on Africans or Africans in the Diaspora may be substituted with the approval of the program’s advisory committee. In such cases, students may petition the committee to allow other relevant courses.

Africana Studies Courses

Africana Studies courses are as follows:

• AFCA 130 - Introduction to Africana Studies  
• AFCA 295 - Seminar in Africana Studies  
• AFCA 403 - Directed Individual Study   
• ECON 232 - African-American Human Capital Development: Challenges and Opportunities  
• ECON 233 - Colorism  
• ENGL 350 - Postcolonial Literature  
• ENGL 366 - African-American Literature  
• HIST 131 - Modern Latin America: Túpak Katari to Tupac Shakur    
• HIST 259: The History of the African-American People to 1877  
• HIST 260: The History of the African-American People Since 1877  
• HIST 273 - East Africa: A Thousand Years  
• HIST 276 - History of South Africa  
• HIST 277 - Speaking and Being Zulu in South Africa  
• HIST 366 - Seminar: Slavery in the Americas  
• LACS 257 - Multiculturalism in Latin America: The Case of Brazil  
• LIT 259 - The French Caribbean Novel  
• MUS 221: History of Jazz  
• PHIL 242 - Social Inequality and Fair Opportunity  
• PHIL 243 - Martin Luther King Jr.: Poverty, Justice, and Love  
• POL 215 - International Development  
• POL 250: Black American Politics  
• POL 350 - Seminar: Ralph Ellison and the American Dream  
• POL 360 - Seminar: Lincoln’s Statesmanship  
• POV 243 - Martin Luther King Jr.: Poverty, Justice, and Love  
• PSYC 269 - Stereotyping, Prejudice, and Discrimination  
• SOC 228: Race and Ethnic Relations