Africana Studies

James Madison University

Events

June 10-July 9, 2006 - Tentative dates for the JMU Summer  in Ghana Program.

Courses

Dr. Lamont King will teach the new course AFST 200: Introduction to Africana Studies during the Fall 2005 semester.  This course will serve as a requirement for the revised Africana Studies minor.

The Africana Studies program has received an "Internationalization at Home" grant from the Office of International Programs for the development of a capstone course during summer 2005 that will become a required element of the revised Africana Studies minor.

Faculty News

Dr. Melinda Adams recently published “Regional Networking among African Women’s Organizations: The Case of the African Union” in Transnational Feminisms: Women’s Global Activism and Human Rights edited by Myra Marx Ferree and Aili Mari Tripp (New York: NYU Press, 2005). Dr. Adams will present a paper entitled “Gender Equity Policies in the African Union” at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association in September. She will also present a paper at the African Studies Association meeting in November.

Dr. Mark D. DeLancey recently published “Moving East, Facing West:  Islam as an Intercultural Mediator in Urban Planning in the Sokoto Empire” in African Urban Spaces in Historical Perspectives edited by Steven J. Salm and Toyin Falola [Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora 21.  Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2005], pp. 2-21.  "A Review of In Senghor’s Shadow: Art, Politics, and the Avant-Garde in Senegal, 1960-1995 by Elizabeth Harney,”  in The International Journal of African Historical Studies (Boston) is forthcoming.

Dr. J. Peter Pham was appointed to serve as a U.S. delegate to monitor the first round of national elections in Liberia (http://www.jmu.edu/jmuweb/general/news/general5837.shtml).  He also recently published a book entitled Child Soldiers, Adult Interests: The Global Dimensions of the Sierra Leonean Tragedy (Hauppage, NY: Nova Science Publishers, 2005).  Dr. Pham was was appointed director of JMU's Nelson Institute for International and Public Affairs (www.jmu.edu/nelsoninstitute) and added to the institute's programming an Africa componenent.  A chapter by Dr. Pham entitled, "Hesistant Home Repair or Successful Restoration? Foreign Policymaking in the George W. Bush Administration, the Conflict in Liberia, and the Case for Humanitarian Non- Intervention," was published in The President and Foreign Policy, edited by Glenn P. Hastedt and Anthony J Eksterowicz (Hauppage, NY: Nova Science Publishers, 2005), 99-113.  Dr. Pham also carried out research in the Horn of Africa region this summer and subsequently briefed a Congressional subcommittee (http://www.jmu.edu/jmuweb/general/news/general5576.shtml).