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New course offering from our AAAS Affiliate faculty member, Dr. Clara Rodriguez. SOCI 3670 L01: Hispanic Women MW 11:30am-12:45pm This course integrates readings from various disciplines and focuses on the experiences of Latinas in their home countries and the US.
Check out this new Fall 2022 course offering from AAAS's Dr. Mark Naison @McFiredogg
Check out this new EP3 Fall 2022 course offering from AAAS Faculty member Dr. Tyesha Maddox @TyeshaMaddoxPhD AFAM 3630: Harlem Century RH: Tues & Fris 11:30am-12:45pm LC: Tues 6-8:45pm Harlem Century examines the history, people, and culture of Harlem from 1900 to the present.
Fall 2022 Course w/ AAAS Affiliate Faculty, Dr. Sasha Panaram ENGL 4008: Black Letters M & Th: 10-11:15am & 11:30-12:45pm This course will consider the letters Black writers exchanged and how they helped to found what we understand as African American & Caribbean literature.
NEW 2022 Summer Session 1 course! This course is a general introduction to the people, culture, and history of the Caribbean region. Entirely online with a combination of synchronous Zoom meetings Mons & Weds 10 - 11:15 am and asynchronous modules. Register now!
I'm excited to share a video I made with @danieljoslyn95 on the History of Mutual Aid (made possible by Villanova’s Albert Lepage Center @lepagevu). This video historicizes the COVID-19 pandemic & the importance of this long history of community work! vimeo.com/667302454
Tomorrow!! There's still time to register: bit.ly/BlackGaze
The AAAS Department invite you to our Annual Black History Month Lecture. Dr Tina Campt will be presenting her book, A Black Gaze: Artists Changing How We See Thursday, February 3rd at 6 pm on Zoom. Register: bit.ly/BlackGaze This lecture is free and open to the public.
More upcoming Black History Month events! Historian and black feminist Giovana Xavier talks with Dr. Yuko Miki, about The History of Black Beauty - A View from Brazil. Audience Q&A to follow. Thursday, February 10, 2022 @ 12-1pm Register in Advance: bit.ly/3rc39kl
Congratulations, Dr. Tyler!🥳
Behold, my book baby has arrived, & she’s beautiful! I’m a little teary-eyed, but they are tears of joy.
The Department of AAAS would like to congratulate Nelsy M. Rivera in her new role as the Director of Academic Personnel in the Office of the Dean of Faculty of Arts & Sciences. We also want to thank Nelsy for her 9 years of service to AAAS. Thank you and Congratulations!!
With less than two weeks before we say goodbye to October, we want to reintroduce you to Fr. R. Bentley Anderson. Fr. Anderson’s research deals with the issue of race and religion in the southern U.S and South Africa in the post-World War II period.
As you all gear up for midterms, we want to take a moment to reintroduce you to Dr. Jane Edward, Associate Clinical Professor and Director of African Immigration Research for the BAAHP. She has been engaging the African community of the Bronx for over ten years!
We hope your week is off to a great start! We want to reintroduce you all to Dr. Laurie Lambert. This will be her fifth year with the Department of African & African American Studies. Her most popular course is Black Feminism: Theory and Expression.
As we round out the month of September, we would like to reintroduce you to Dr. Mark Chapman. This is his 29th year with the Dept. of African & African American Studies at Fordham! His most popular courses are Martin L. King Jr. & Malcolm X as well as The Black Prison Experience.
This week we want to reintroduce you to Dr. Tyesha Maddox, assistant professor of African & African American Studies. This is her fifth year at Fordham and her first year teaching AFAM 3560 "We Can't Breathe"...The History of Black Protest.
Check out our very own faculty member of the week, Dr. Mark Naison aka Notorious Ph.D., providing commentary on the hysteria surrounding Critical Race Theory. Mark Naison - CRT Hysteria youtu.be/vwmaXJrafFc via @YouTube
Now that the semester is in full swing, we want to reintroduce you to our wonderful faculty. This week, we want to highlight Mark Naison, Ph.D. He is the longest serving member of the department. This is his 51st year teaching at Fordham!!
#OnThisDay in 1915, Carter G. Woodson founded @ASALH.
Welcome back everyone! We are excited to share our newsletter for Academic Year 2021-2022. As always, this has been a labor of love and the collaboration from alumni, students, and faculty is reflected in the final product :) fordham.edu/downloads/file…
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Kirsten Swinth @kswinth
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Sasha Ann Panaram @SashaPanaram
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