This group explores the role of African and African-descended peoples in shaping global (and particularly Atlantic) histories. Central to such a project is the study of slavery and colonization and their variegated legacies on both sides of the Atlantic. Members of our group are also concerned with the relationship between race and nation in the Americas, as well as broader questions of the constitution, mediation, and interaction of black subjectivities across the globe. We focus on historical processes, such as labor migrations, anticolonial movements, and circuits of intellectual and cultural production that highlight the connections among local, national, and transnational contexts. In all these pursuits, we maintain abiding interest in often closely linked questions of citizenship, rights consciousness, race, gender, sexuality, and culture.
Department of History: African Diaspora, Atlantic Studies
2521 Haven Hall
Associate Professor of History & Women's and Gender Studies, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor
Associate Professor of History
Associate Professor of German Studies
Associate Professor of Musicology (School of Music, Theatre, and Dance)
Associate Professor of History, Director, Institute for the Humanities; Mary Fair Croushore Professor of the Humanities
