Department News
- New Geoffrey Canada Chair Deepens Interdisciplinary Focus of Africana Studies
- Scholars Question Boundaries Between Indigenous, Scientific Knowledge
- Five Faculty Members Earn Tenure in 2008
- Fishing Lake Mweru: A Surprising Tale of Adaptation and Survival
- A Pipeline Runs Through It: Central Africa's Big Dig
Faculty Publications
Our faculty members are outstanding, engaged scholars, researchers, and artists »
Russwurm Center
The African American Society is housed in the Russwurm African American Center.
New Faculty Members
Meet two new additions to the program; David Gordon and Guy Mark Foster have recently joined the faculty.
The Africana Studies Program at Bowdoin College, like many others in the country, grew out of the African American freedom movement of the 1960s and 1970s. However, in recent decades, Bowdoin's Africana Studies Program has grown into a dynamic interdisciplinary field that engages the historical, political, social, cultural, and artistic experiences of African Americans and other peoples of African descent in the Americas, Africa, Europe, and other regions around the world. From broad thematic, national, global, and theoretical perspectives, Africana Studies courses draw from the expertise of our distinguished faculty members in various disciplinary and interdisciplinary programs in the humanities and social sciences. Africana Studies faculty members are deeply committed to encouraging our majors and minors to acquire the essential analytical, writing, and communication skills that will prepare them for the modern professions and post-graduate studies in graduate and professional schools. Students interested in the Africana Studies major or minor are encouraged to meet with the program director.
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Contact Information
Location: Adams Hall, 3rd Floor
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Program Coordinator: Glynis Wears Siegel
Program Phone: (207) 725-3272
Program Fax: (207) 725-3766
Mailing Address: 7200 College Station, Brunswick, Maine 04011-8472