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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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Temple University
Department of African American Studies
Degrees Awarded: MA, PhD
The mission of the Department of African-American Studies is to provide an intellectual arena in which students learn to critically examine, analyze, and interpret the experiences, traditions, and dynamics of people of African descent. The department’s guiding philosophy is African-centered in that we believe that the specific cultural and historical experiences of African people must inform and guide research, analysis, interpretation, and action involving African peoples.
The Faculty expect of our students excellence, a spirit of inquiry, thoroughness, integrity, and creative will. We encourage our students to develop an appreciation for an understanding of various methods of research, to engage an arena of intellectual perspectives, to be able to critically apply these perspectives in their work, and to further the expansion of the discipline through publications, conferences and community service. It is the goal of the department that graduates of our MA and PhD programs be prepared to engage in a diverse range of intellectual issues from aesthetic, sociological, political, economic, anthropological, historical, and psychological perspectives that affect the lives of Africans on the continent and in the diaspora.
African American Studies Faculty
ABARRY, Abu (Ph.D., State Univ. of New York, Buffalo, 1977) Temple Univ.
ANADOLU-OKROR, Nilgun (Ph.D., Hacettepe Univ., Ankara, Turkiye, 1984) Temple Univ.
ASANTE, Molefi Kete (Ph.D., Univ. California, Los Angeles, 1968) Temple Univ.
FORBES, Ella (Ph.D., Temple Univ., 1991) Temple Univ.
MAZAMA, Ama (Ph.D., Univ. of La Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris III, France, 1987) Temple Univ.
NORMENT, Nathaniel, Jr. (Ph.D., Fordham University, 1984) Temple Univ.
PETERSON, Charles, Jr. (M.A. Binghamton Univ., 1995) Temple Univ.
Contact
Department of African American Studies
1115 W. Berks Street
8th Floof, Gladfelter Hall
Philadelphia, PA 19122
Phone: 215/204-5073
Fax: 215/204-5953
E-mail:
www.temple.edu/AAS/
Chair/Director: Nathaniel Norment, Jr.
Graduate Director: Ella Forbes
Admissions
Temple University
Temple University Graduate School
Carnell Hall Room 501, 1803 North Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA 19122
Telephone: 215.204.1380
Fax: 215.204.8781
e-mail:
http://mdev.temple.edu/gradschool/grad_school/
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