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Yale University
Department of African-American Studies
Degrees Awarded: PhD
In 1993-94, African-American Studies developed a unique graduate program in cooperation with a number of other departments and programs across the university. This program, which grew out of the MA program that African and African-American Studies had launched in 1978, now offers a Joint Doctoral Degree in African-American Studies and another field or discipline.
Each applicant in the program selects a single disciplinary department or interdisciplinary program which the African-American Studies Program considers to be his or her primary field of study. The departments and programs with which a Joint Ph.D. with African-American Studies is currently offered are: American Studies, Anthropology, English, French, History, History of Art, Italian Language and Literature, Political Science, Psychology, Religious Studies, Sociology, and Spanish and Portuguese (see end of page for links to department homepages).
Each student then selects an area of concentration in consultation with the Directors of Graduate Studies in African-American Studies and the joint department or program. The benefit of this degree program is that the area of concentration is flexible and open. For instance, a student pursuing a joint doctoral degree in African-American Studies and American Studies may wish to focus on Cultural Studies, women’s discourses/history, consumer cultures, African American social movements or American globalism. Students with an interest in a joint degree with Sociology, Psychology, or Political Science may wish to concentrate on topics already established within a single discipline, such as constructions of race and ethnicity, social identity and social movements, or urban politics.
An area of concentration must be either a field of study offered by a department or fall within the rubric of such a field. The Yale Graduate School’s annual catalogue, Programs and Policies, offers descriptions of fields of study within each participating department or program. Also check out the individual departments’ homepage. Students who intend to apply for the Joint Ph.D. ought to contact the prospective department and request a description of all their doctoral requirements and courses.
African American Studies Faculty
CARBY, Hazel (African-American Studies, American Studies)
COHEN, Cathy (African American Studies, Political Science)
GILROY, Paul (African-American Studies and Sociology)
GRIFFITH, Ezra (Psychiatry)
JAYNES, Gerald D. (Economics, African-American Studies)
KUTZINSKI, Vera (English, African-American Studies, American Studies)
MILLER, Christopher L. (French, African-American Studies)
STEPTO, Robert (English, African-American Studies, American Studies)
SZWED, John (Anthropology, African- American Studies, American Studies, Music)
THOMPSON, Robert (History of Art)
Assistant Professors
BASZILE, Jennifer (African-American Studies, History)
HOLLOWAY, Jonathan (African-American Studies, History)
JONES, Kellie (African- American Studies, History of Art)
NELSON, Alondra; African American Studies, Sociology
PABST, Naomi; African American Studies
Lecturers
NORCOTT, Flemming (African-American Studies, Law School)
THOMAS, Gerald (History, African-American Studies)
Courtesy Appointments
COMACHO, Alicia Schmidt (Assistant Prof, American Studies)
GEORGE, Nadine (Assistant Prof, Theater Studies)
GILMORE, Glenda (Prof, History)
JACOBSON, Matthew (Associate Prof, American Studies, History)
JONES, Serene (Associate Prof, Divinity School)
KRASNER, David (Assistant Prof, English, Theater Studies)
PAULIN, Diana (Assistant Prof, American Studies)
PESSAR, Patricia (Associate Prof - adjunct, American Studies, Anthropology, Sociology)
ROACH, Joseph (Prof, English, Theater Studies)
Research Fellow
FEIMSTER, Crystal (History)
Contact
Department of African-American Studies
PO Box 203388
Yale Station
New Haven, CT 06520-3388
Phone: (203) 432-1170
Fax: (203) 432-2102
E-mail:
www.yale.edu/afamstudies/
Chair/Director: Gerald Jaynes
Graduate Director: Matthew Jacobson
Admissions
Yale University
Graduate School of Arts & Sciences Admissions Office
Box 208323
New Haven, CT 06520-8323
Telephone: 203-432-2773
Fax: 203-432-6724
e-mail:
http://www.yale.edu/graduateschool/admissions/
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