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African and African Diaspora Studies

Organization Description

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

Department Leadership

Walter Hill

Walter Hill

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

Latest News

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.