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African and African Diaspora Studies

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African and African Diaspora Studies is designed to help students explore, examine and critically analyze the African presence in a global context, stretching back to antiquity in Europe and Asia, and for centuries in the Americas.

Kent Hall 306
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Walter Hill

Walter Hill

Professor of Political Science | African and African Diaspora Studies Chair & Contact

Latest News

Elisia Lewis '25 won first prize at the Phi Alpha Theta conference at Bowie State University on Sat., April 12, for her paper, “Rebranding Racial… View more

Lee Capristo

April 22, 2025, 8:23 a.m.

Professor Emerita Merideth Taylor has authored a new book, "Making a Way Out of No Way: Lives of Labor, Love, and Resistance" (New Village Press,… View more
Lee Capristo

Sept. 25, 2024, 5:02 p.m.

Walter Hill, professor of political science and coordinator of African and African Diaspora Studies, wrote a chapter in the just-published "Early… View more
Lee Capristo

Sept. 17, 2024, 4:57 p.m.

Jeffrey Lamar Coleman, professor of English, has three poems included in the poetry anthology “Where We Stand: Poems of Black Resilience” (Cherry… View more

Jeffrey Coleman

Feb. 18, 2022, 9:16 a.m.

Jeffrey Lamar Coleman, professor of English, published "Singing Is Swinging: The Soul Force of Twentieth Century Black Protest Music" in… View more

Jeffrey Coleman

Aug. 29, 2021, 10:58 p.m.

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