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