DIRECTOR OF AFRICANA STUDIES: Associate Professor Amkpa

Africana Studies at New York University is an interdisciplinary undertaking devoted to scholarship on the histories, political and cultural movements, institutions, economies, and identities of Africans and the African diaspora across the globe. Africa’s own overlapping modernities and the transnational migrations of its peoples—whether forced or voluntary—have complicated the meanings of “black” and “African” identities and experiences, prompting us to rethink the geographical boundaries and conceptual paradigms surrounding the production of knowledge about Africa and its diasporic communities. NYU’s location in one of the western hemisphere’s most cosmopolitan cities—home to many of the broad constituencies we aim to study in relation to their other continental settings—places us in a privileged position to lead and shape the development of Africana studies in the 21st century. Accordingly, the curriculum comprises interdisciplinary and cross-cultural teaching and research in the histories, cultures, economies, politics, and languages and cultural practices of Africans in Africa, the Americas (North and South), the Caribbean, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and the Middle East. The program is administered from within the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, and it maintains close relationships with community programming and research activities by NYU’s Institute of African American Affairs and Africa House.

Africana Studies offers programs leading to B.A., B.A./M.A., and M.A. degrees, and a suite of joint M.A. programs with journalism (pending state approval), economics, and museum studies.

Faculty

Professors:
Dash, Morgan, Willis (Tisch)

Associate Professors:
Amkpa (Tisch), Blake, Guerrero (Tisch)

Assistant Professor:
Ralph

Clinical Associate Professor:
Hinton