Binghamton University Africana Studies

Africana Studies professor receives research grant

Zanzibar has a complex history that includes a sultanate and a 1964 revolution. It’s the research focus of Assistant Professor of Africana Studies Nathaniel Mathews, who recently received a grant from the Oman Studies Centre in Berlin, Germany.

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Africana Studies at Binghamton University is a multidisciplinary field that focuses on African peoples and cultures and their descendants in the New World. It adopts an intellectual approach that is sensitive to the history, interests and outlook of African peoples everywhere in the context of the social, political, religious and economic systems of the wider world. Learn More.