Department office: 3105 James Hall
Phone: 718.951.5597

Full-time Faculty

Professor(s): Cunningham, Day
Associate Professor(s): Byam, Cumberbatch, Fraser
Assistant Professor(s): Ranjitsingh
Lecturer(s): Gibson

Offering a multidisciplinary perspective on the study of people of African descent in Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States, the department offers courses focusing on the histories, cultures, politics, and societies of Africa and its diaspora. The department offers courses that augment other graduate majors. The department also offers study-abroad opportunities which provides an in-depth experience in a selected country of the African diaspora in cooperation with a host institution in that country. Summer seminars have taken place in Barbados, Brazil, Cuba, Ghana, Haiti, Jamaica, Panama, and Trinidad.

Courses

The following inactive course(s) will only be offered if there is sufficient demand:

• AFST. 7010X Black Research Methodology

• AFST. 7020X Black Community Organizations and Participation

• AFST. 7030X The Political Economy of the Caribbean

• AFST. 7060X Modern South Africa

• AFST. 7070X Independent Research and Study