Department of Africana Studies

The curriculum allows students to develop research, communication, and collaboration skills and habits through academic courses that combine subject areas drawn from anthropology, art history, history, literature, music, political economy, and theater, among other fields of research.

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VIDEO: Why Africana Studies?
Produced and Edited by Jordyn Birmingham

History

Student Research

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  "Cotton Town" Reveals Maine's Links to the Slave Trade

  The opening of a new exhibit by Bowdoin students at the Maine Maritime Museum in Bath sheds light on Maine's economic ties to the cotton industry and slavery.
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  Bowdoin Originals: 1960s Civil Rights Broadsides Come to Light

  In the summer of 1964, David Anderson ’55 found a pair of prints at a local bookshop featuring two prominent American abolitionists: William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass. He recently donated them to Bowdoin.
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  Africana Studies Becomes a Department

  More than half a century after it was established at Bowdoin, the Africana Studies Program is now becoming a fully fledged academic department. The change was announced at the March 9 faculty meeting and is effective immediately.