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 (none)
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.