Academic Year 2012 - 2013 Welcome
The Department of African and Afro-American Studies is delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Chad Williams as our new department chair, beginning in Fall 2012. A historian, his book, Torchbearers of Democracy: African American Soldiers in the World War I Era (University of North Carolina Press), won the 2011 Liberty Legacy Foundation Award for the best book on any aspect of the struggle for civil rights in the US from the nation’s founding to the present, the 2011 Distinguished Book Award for US History from the Society for Military History and was selected as 2011 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title. Dr. Williams holds a PhD in History from Princeton University, and is currently an Associate Professor of History at Hamilton College, where he teaches courses such as the African Diaspora in African-American History, African-American Military History and W.E.B. Du Bois and the Black Intellectual Tradition. In his first semester at Brandeis in the fall, he will teach AAAS 5A, "Introduction to Afro-American Studies." We are extremely happy to welcome Professor Williams to our campus, and to our department.
Events:
Commencement 2012
The Brandeis University commencement ceremony begins at Gosman Sports and Convocation Center at 10:30am for the entire graduating class. The African and Afro-American Studies mini-commencement ceremony will be held at 4:00pm in Sherman Function Hall. The student speaker for the mini-commencement is Ethan Geringer-Sameth, AAAS major '12.
Sunday May 20, 2012.
Tickets not required for mini-commencement ceremony
See full commencment schedule for undergraduate students here
Haiti on Screen: The Case of Moloch Tropical
Haitian poet and activist Patrick Sylvain visiting from Brown University will talk to us about the representation of Haiti's political leadership in 2010 film by Raoul Peck. "Screening in the Tropics" is supported by the Brandeis African and Afro-American Studies Department, the Latin American Studies Department, and the English Department. Patrick Sylvain's latest collection of poetry, entitled Love, Lust & Loss is pictured above.
Wednesday April 25, 2012.
2:00-3:20pm in the Mandel Center for the Humanities, Room G11
This event is open to all
Meet the Majors Event
Prospective and current majors of the African and Afro-American Studies & American Studies Departments are welcome. Join us for discussion, sundaes, and a chance to meet other students and professors in the departments.
Monday March 26, 2012.
5:00pm in the Reading Room on the third floor of the Mandel Center for the Humanities
Shaping Membership Negotiating Homelands;
The African Diaspora in South Asia
Madeleine Haas Russell Visiting Professor Pashington Obeng
Thursday March 15, 2012.
4:45pm in the Atrium of the Mandel Center for the Humanities
Open to the public, free refreshments will be served
Monstrous Intimacies
Visiting from Tufts University's English and American Studies departments, Professor Christina Sharpe discussed her book Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects.
Friday November 18, 2011.
12:30pm in Lown 202
Open to the public