Academic Year 2011 - 2012 Welcome
Our department welcomes back Wayne Marshall. Professor Marshall will be teaching his course AAAS 171A: Reggae, Race and Nation in the Fall. This is a one time opportunity -- not to be missed!
We also weclome our Madeleine Haas Russell Visiting professor, Pashington Obeng, who is joining our faculty for the academic year. His Fall course is AAAS 109A: Religion in Africa.
We are also pleased to welcome our Allen-Berenson Fellow in African & Afro-American Studies and Women's & Gender Studies, Professor Grace Leslie who will be at Brandeis for 2 years. Her Fall 2011 course is AAAS 156A: The Civil Rights Movement (with a focus on Gender and Sexuality in the Civil Rights Movement)
Faculty Opportunity
Chair, Department of African and Afro-American Studies
Brandeis University seeks nominations for a Full or Associate Professor of African-American studies in any discipline, who will chair the Department of African and Afro-American Studies, beginning Fall 2012. This is an exciting opportunity ro shape the future of the department.
The successful candidate will demonstrate an excellent record of research, publication, and teaching as well as relevant leadership experience. Academic discipline, period and specialization are open. The appointment is full-time in the department, though the apointee will of course be free to seek affiliation with the relevant department in his or her discipline.
Review of applications will begin October 15, 2011 and continue until the position is filled. Please send a letter of application, curriculum vitae and the names of three references to
Professor Faith Smith,
Department of African and Afro-American Studies,
Brandeis University,
MS 092, Waltham, MA 02454-9110
Brandeis University is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a culturally diverse intellectual community and strongly encourages applications from women and members of historically underrepresented groups.
Current Events
AAAS Film Series on the Civil Rights Movement
On the following Mondays in Mandel Center for Humanities G12 @ 6 30
October 3rd- Freedom Riders
November 7th - A Place of Rage
November 28th - Living with Pride: Ruth Ellis @ 100
Future Events
Just Performance: Enacting Justice in the Wake of Violence
December 1-2, 2011
Brandeis University
This two-day symposium will explore the performative dimensions of justice-seeking in the aftermath of violence, with a focus on Cambodia, Peru and the United States. What do public ritual, theater, truth commissions and criminal trials each offer as justice-seeking strategies? How does performance satisfy the human need to understand violence and reconstruct dignity in its wake?
Symposium sessions will run all day Thursday and end at 2pm on Friday.
This symposium is hosted by the Center in collaboration with Northeastern University School of Law, and cosponsored by African and Afro-American Studies, Latin American and Latino Studies, Legal Studies, the Master's Program in Coexistence and Conflict, and the Office of the Arts.
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