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Please join us for our 2012 Graduation Celebration on Friday, May 11th at 12 noon.

Shirley Du Bois Reading Room, 2nd Floor, New Africa House

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See our Fall 2012 Course Guide as you prepare to register for your fall courses.

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The Du Bois Department is offering some exciting learning opportunities this summer and fall. Check it out:

Summer Program on Afro-Cuban & Afro-Caribbean Studies

The UMass Summer Program on Afro-Cuban/Afro-Caribbean History, Culture, and Politics is accepting applications for a program that includes a two-week trip to Cuba. We will first meet at UMass (or online) beginning June 11, for the two classes, one by Prof. Lao-Montes on Afro-Cuban Studies and another one by Prof. Shabazz on Afro-Caribbean Studies. We will then be in Cuba from June 26 to July 10, with students earning 6 credits (graduate or advanced undergraduate) in Sociology and Afro-American Studies. The trip in Cuba includes lectures from scholars, artists, musicians, religious leaders, and community workers, and visits to cultural sites and community centers in Havana, Guanabacoa, Mantanzas, and Santa Clara. It also includes a visit to Varadero Beach as well as participation in the Caribbean Festival in Santiago. To apply online go to http://www.ipo.umass.edu/?go=SummerCuba and for futher information write to lao@soc.umass.edu or shabazz@afroam/umass.edu. Information sessions will be held at 12 noon each Wednesday in April at 309 New Africa House. For the program leaflet, click here. 

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On-Line Course Offering for Summer 2012: AFROAM 236, History of the Civil Rights Movement. Go to http://www.umassulearn.net/ to register.

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On-Line Course Offering for Fall 2012:  AFROAM 390E. Race, Ethnicity & Gender in the U.S.: Sport in the African American Experience (Instructor: J. Anthony Guillory), an interdisciplinary course focused on the complex relationship between sport culture and African American history. The course will explore the different motivations that led African Americans to engage sport in light of the political, economic and cultural realities of the late 1890s up to the 1970s. It will also analyze some of the institutions that African Americans used to facilitate their interests in organized sport. Go to http://www.umassulearn.net/ to register.

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*Now Accepting Applications!

 

 

The Graduate Certificate in African Diaspora Studies

A Graduate Certificate in African Diaspora Studies in the W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst will introduce students to the current scholarship on the African Diaspora as well as a basic grounding in the historical, political, literary, and cultural responses of African peoples to their diasporic conditions. Check out the The Graduate Certificate in African Diaspora Studies website for details.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Lilly Teaching Fellows

The Center for Teaching and Faculty Development (CTFD), which supports the professional development and achievement of faculty, has announced the 2012-13 Lilly Teaching Fellows.

The eight fellows are Jane Anderson, Anthropology, Andrew McGregor, Computer Science, Jesse Rhodes, Political Science, Britt Rusert, Afro-American Studies, Felipe Salles, Music and Dance, Adrian Staub, Psychology, Angela Willey, Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies, and Melissa Wooten, Sociology.

The Lilly Fellowship is a competitive award program, established in 1986, that enables promising junior faculty to cultivate teaching excellence in a special yearlong collaboration. The fellows assess their teaching and their students' learning through classroom visits; review of course materials; and student feedback. Lilly Teaching Fellows attend an intensive retreat and bi-weekly seminar sessions on college teaching, design and implement a course design project, and work with mentors to anticipate many of the challenges and rewards of faculty life at UMass Amherst.

Click here for the full article in the Loop.

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Professors Kabria Baumgartner and Jonathan Fenderson completed an edited volume of the Journal of African American Studies, with James Stewart. It is focused on the Black Studies Movement.    Also, see Emeritus Professor Ekwueme Michael Thelwell's commentary "History and Memory: The Tyranny and Prejudice of Experience".

Click on the following link to the table of contents: http://www.springerlink.com/content/1559-1646/16/1/

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Professor Jonathan Fenderson won the Black Metropolis Research Consortium Short-term Fellowship for the summer. It was granted by the Black Metropolis Research Consortium and sponsored by the Mellon Foundation. See http://www.blackmetropolisresearch.org/shortTerm.html for details.

 

 

 

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