Faculty Research

Faculty Research Grants & Awards

Africana Studies faculty are nationally and internationally recognized and have won a number of prestigious grants, fellowships and awards, including:

  • Guggenheim Fellowship
  • Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship
  • Smithsonian Fellowship
  • Woodrow Wilson Fellowship
  • Senior Getty Program Grant
  • Society for the Humanities Fellowship (Cornell University)
  • Senior Gender Fellowship (UCLA)
  • Center for Advanced Study Fellowship (Stanford University)
  • Center for HIV/AIDS Educational Studies and Training Fellowship (NYU)
  • National University Humanities Center Fellowship

Areas Of Faculty Research

  • African & African American literatures
  • African & African diaspora history
  • African & African diaspora ar
  • African labor history
  • African women & feminism
  • Black nationalisms
  • Black psychological development & mental health
  • Classical & post-colonial literature & criticism
  • Democracy & globalization
  • Folklore & mythology
  • Jazz studies
  • Hip-hop studies
  • Lesbian, gay, bisexual & transgender psychology
  • Muslim peoples of the world
  • Oral literature
  • Pan-Africanism
  • Third world politics
  • West African history