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African Diaspora, Ph.D. highlights emerging scholarship and scholars in the field of African diaspora history.  This may include scholarship as it relates to the history of men and women of African, African-American, Afro-Caribbean, Afro-Latin American, Afro-Latina/o, Afro-Asian and Afro-European descent.

At African Diaspora, Ph.D. we believe that intellectual production and social justice go hand in hand.  We also believe that African diaspora historical study is inherently interdisciplinary.  Do not be surprised if some of the work you find here is not in book form.  African Diaspora, Ph.D. honors the activists, artists, teachers, researchers, librarians, bloggers, and others who bring depth to our work.

Please explore the site and leave comments.  Alongside this page will be other pages meant to serve as resources for professors and graduate students, including reading lists, classroom exercises, workshop activities, roundtable questions and other digital media.  If you would like to submit something of your own, please send us an email.

2 Replies

  1. ciphersankofa

    March 15, 2010 at 7:55 pm

    do you have access to a list of african diaspora phd programs?

    • jmjohnso

      March 15, 2010 at 11:56 pm

      ciphersankofa,

      Finding a comprehensive list is no easy task. This is definitely something those who do African diaspora as an academic pursuit need to seriously take on. Thank you for asking such an important question. A few ideas below:

      A list of black studies related degree granting graduate programs was compiled by eBlack Studies, a project led by Abdul Alkalimat, Professor of African-American Studies and Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois: http://eblackstudies.org/graduate.html. The list appears to be current as of 2006, when Northwestern created their Ph.D. in African American Studies) but it does not include programs where African diaspora is the field of study under another discipline (example: New York University’s African Diaspora field of study in their History Department) . Still, it may be the best place to start.

      A 2006 thread on H-Net discussed degree granting programs in Atlantic World History; many of these programs also cover period of slavery and the slave trade and may be “diasporic” in scope if not name: http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=H-Africa&month=0608&week=e&msg=uuoz4xAokQWmUFD7zgf3xA&user=&pw=

      Finally, although fairly specialized, in 2009, Christopher Fennell compiled a list of African Diaspora archaeology graduate programs: http://www.diaspora.uiuc.edu/news0609/news0609.html#8

      If you find others, please come back and leave links in the comments. I will compile anything I find and create a new page under “Graduate Study” here at African Diaspora, Ph.D.

      Thank you for visiting!


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