Publications: Directory of Graduate Programs

Ohio State University
Department of African American and African Studies

Degrees Awarded: MA

Academic System: Quarter

Deadlines: 1/15, 5/14 (financial aid)

The Master of Arts degree is available to students interested in graduate work. Like the Bachelor of Arts program, the master’s provides students a rich variety of academic options and encourages community-based learning. Graduate students may elect to pursue the African American Studies concentration (minimum of 50 quarter hours) or the African Studies concentration (minimum of 55 quarter hours). Both focus areas give MA students a broad-based interdisciplinary education, including research opportunities and community service projects sponsored by the department. In addition, a graduate minor in AAAS is available to students pursuing advanced degrees in other disciplines.
Core Faculty

AKO-ADOUNVO, Gifty, Assistant Professor

AVORGBEDOR, Daniel (PhD, Indiana Univ., 1986) Assistant Professor of African American and African Studies and Music; African and African American music

BARCHIESI, Franco (PhD, Witwatersrand, 2006); Southern African labor movements, collective identities, civil societies, social movements, and social citizenship

COLE, Festus

CONTEH-MORGAN, John (PhD, Sussex Univ., England, 1978) Associate Professor of African American and African Studies; French; and Italian; Francophone African-Caribbean literature and twentieth century French drama

FYLE, Magbaily Cecil (PhD, Northwestern Univ., 1976) Professor of African American and African Studies; African historyGOINGS, Kenneth (PhD, Princeton, 1977) Professor of African American and African Studies; Urban history

JEWELL, Karen Sue (PhD, Ohio State Univ., 1976) Assistant Professor of African American and African Studies; Black women and the family; Black American sociology

KORANG, Kwaku Larbi, Assistant Professor of African American and African Studies

MAZRUL, Alamin (PhD, Stanford Univ., 1981) Associate Professor of African American and African Studies; Sociolinguistics, African literature, and the politics of cultural production

McDANIEL, William T. (PhD, Univ. of Iowa, 1974) Professor of African American and African Studies and Music; Director of Jazz Studies, School of Music; Music arranging and composition; Jazz performance; Black music history

MOWOE, Isaac James (PhD, Ohio State Univ., 1976, JD Capital Univ., 1982) Associate Professor of African American and African Studies; African politics and law

MPHANDE, Lupenga (PhD, Univ. of Texas, 1989) Associate Professor of African American and African Studies; African literature, language, and politics; society and culture

MYERS, Linda James (PhD, Ohio State Univ., 1975) Associate Professor of African American and African Studies and Psychology; Psychology, gender issues and international health

NELSON, William E. (PhD, Univ. of Illinois, 1971) Research Professor of African American and African Studies and Political Science; Black urban politics, race and ethnic relations, public policy

NEWSUM, Horace (PhD, Univ. of Michigan, 1977) Associate Professor of African American and African Studies; Black literature and African political economy

PIERCE, Paulette (PhD, City Univ. of New York, Graduate School, 1982) Associate Professor of African American and African Studies; Political sociology and gender issues

POGGO, Scopas (PhD, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, 1975) Assistant Professor of African American and African Studies; African and African American history

RUCKER, Walter C. (PhD, University of California, Riverside, 1999) Assistant Professor of African American and African Studies; Atlantic world/African disasporic history, Pan-Africanism, slave culture and resistance, black social movements

SHIPLEY, Maurice W. (PhD, Univ. of Illinois) Professor of African American and African Studies; African American literature and Black women writers

SIKAINGA, Ahmad Alawad M. (PhD, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, 1986) Associate Professor of African American and African Studies and History; African history

UPTON, James (PhD, Ohio State Univ., 1976) Associate Professor of African American and African Studies; Political sociology, political history and research methodology

WANZO, Rebecca (PhD, Duke University) Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies and African American Studies; 19th and 20th century US literature, African American literature and culture, cultural studies, gender studies

Contact

Department of African American and African Studies
230 N. Oval Mall
486 University Hall
Columbus, OH 43210
Phone: 614/292-3700
Fax: 614/292-2293
http://aaas.ohio-state.edu

Chair: Kenneth W. Goings
Graduate Director: W. Maurice Shipley

Admissions

Ohio State University
Graduate Studies
The Ohio State University
Lincoln Tower, 3rd Floor
1800 Cannon Drive
Columbus, Ohio 43210-1270
Phone: 614-292-9444
Fax: 614-292-3895
http://www-afa.adm.ohio-state.edu/grad/