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Events
Jan. 9 | Call for papers: Identities and Technocultures
A 2-day conference about American culture and technologies that examines how new technologies dominate and define Americaness in the US and abroad. Co-sponsored by the University of Iowa Center for Ethnic Studies and the Arts (CESA) and the Mid-America American Studies Association (MAASA).
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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
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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/
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