About African Diaspora, Ph.D.
African Diaspora, Ph.D. highlights scholarship and scholars in the field of Atlantic African Diaspora history. A curated blog, African Diaspora, Ph.D. creates an online space to discuss and share books, articles, reviews, and news relevant to the field. Feel free to explore the site and leave comments.
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About Atlantic African Diaspora History
Atlantic African Diaspora histories explore the life and culture of people of African descent in Africa, Europe, and the Americas. The period of Atlantic slavery and slave trading is of special interest. More specific themes include:
- Forced migrations of Africans from across the African continent to the Americas and to Europe
- Communities formed by people of African descent on both sides of the Atlantic
- Alliances forged and broken and the impact of slavery, slave trades, colonization, revolution, and emancipation on societies of color (some “black,” others not) as they formed.
Atlantic African Diaspora history intersects with Atlantic and national histories of empire and the early modern world. The field is also interdisciplinary, supporting and supported by research emerging from the fields of African, Africana/African-American, and Latin American studies; women, gender, and sexuality studies; and feminist, post-colonial, and race theory.
do you have access to a list of african diaspora phd programs?
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!