Randolph Stakeman

Associate Professor of History, Director of Africana Studies

Phone (207) 725-3646
Title Associate Professor of History and Africana Studies Emeritus
Department AFRICANA STUDIES
2nd Title Associate Professor of History and Africana Studies Emeritus
2nd Department HISTORY
Work Location Russwurm African American Ctr.
E-Mail rstakema@bowdoin.edu

Randy Stakeman A.B. (Wesleyan)
A.M., Ph.D. (Stanford)






Q&A: What has been one of your favorite classes to teach?

I liked my first-year seminar called the "Invention of Africa", which looked at popular culture conception of Africa and traced its roots to slave trade and colonialism. I like it because we could use a broad range of materials to talk about-from the theoretical pieces, the philosophers, to a videotape of the WWF and an art exhibit.

Professor Stakeman is back from a semester abroad, which he spent in South Africa, setting up a study abroad program in Capetown.