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Faculty Winners of Hauser Grants

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Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham and John Mugane were awarded the competitive Hauser Innovation grant by the Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching (HILT) for “Portraits in Multimedia: A Social Engagement Project in African and African American Studies.”...

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Faculty Advisor Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham Victor S. Thomas Professor of History and of African and African American Studies ebhiggin@fas.harvard.edu p: (617) 495-7828 Student Advisor

2014 Social Engagement Initiative Symposium

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In the Department of African and African American Studies, students and faculty combine rigorous academic study with practical experience to solve real-world problems at the 2014 AAAS Social Engagement Initiative Symposium.

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What We Do The Social Engagement Initiative in the Department of African and African American Studies at Harvard University promotes academically informed civic responsibility among undergraduate and graduate students. Begun in academic year 2006-2007...

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About Social Engagement Social Engagement is first and foremost a method of learning that foregrounds empirical, practical elements of real world issues that are of scholarly interest to our faculty and students. Classes Designated as Social Engagement...

Alejandro de la Fuente

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A historian of Latin America and the Caribbean who specializes in the study of comparative slavery and race relations, Professor de la Fuente joined Harvard University after holding faculty appointments at the University of Pittsburgh, the University of...

Emmanuel K. Akyeampong

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Professor Akyeampong joined the History faculty at Harvard upon receiving his Ph.D. in African History from the University of Virginia in 1993. He received his master's degree at Wake Forest University in North Carolina in 1989, where he concentrated on...

Chérie Rivers Ndaliko

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Chérie Rivers Ndaliko is an interdisciplinary scholar who studies radical arts interventions in conflict regions of Africa through ethnomusicology, film studies, and cultural theory. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Music at...

Thesis Requirements

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1. Academic Essay Students must write academically rigorous essays on projects that they have established and operate in Africa or the Americas. The Social Engagement thesis requires mastery of an array of disciplinary perspectives. Although each student...

Kay Kaufman Shelemay

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Kay Kaufman Shelemay is the G. Gordon Watts Professor of Music at Harvard University and a former Chair of the Department of Music. An ethnomusicologist specializing in musics of Africa, the Middle East, and the urban United States, she received her Ph.D...

David R. Williams

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David R. Williams is the Florence and Laura Norman Professor of Public Health at the Harvard School of Public Health and Professor of African and African American Studies and of Sociology at Harvard University. His first 6 years as a faculty member were...