African Studies

Faculty of the Committee on African Studies

K. Anthony Appiah, Senior Fellow of the Society of Fellows (Chair)
Leila Ahmed, Professor of Women’s Studies in Religion (Divinity School)
Emmanuel K. Akyeampong, Professor of History (on leave 2001-02)
Ali S. Asani, Professor of the Practice of Indo-Muslim Languages and Culture
Robert H. Bates, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government
Suzanne P. Blier, Professor of the History of Art and Architecture
Samba Diop, Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures
Felton James Earls, Professor of Social Medicine and Professor of Human Behavior and Development in the School of Public Health and Child Psychiatry (Medical School)
Caroline M. Elkins, Assistant Professor of History
Deborah D. Foster, Senior Lecturer on Folklore and Mythology
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities
Suzanne Grant Lewis, Assistant Professor of Education (School of Education)
Allan G. Hill, Andelot Professor of Demography (Public Health)
Sanjeev Khagram, Assistant Professor in Public Policy (Kennedy School)
Michael Robert Kremer, Professor of Economics (on leave spring term)
Harry S. Martin III, Professor of Law and Library (Law School)
J. Lorand Matory, Professor of Anthropology and of Afro-American Studies (on leave spring term)
Pauline E. Peters, Lecturer on Anthropology
Kay Kaufman Shelemay, G. Gordon Watts Professor of Music
Richard Wolf, Assistant Professor of Music (on leave 2002-03)

The Committee on African Studies is a multidisciplinary group of scholars appointed to coordinate teaching and research on Africa within Harvard’s departments and faculties. It is primarily concerned with the planned development of African studies in the University as a whole. Since it is also the Committee’s goal to advance knowledge and understanding of African peoples throughout the University, it sponsors lectures, seminars, conferences, films, and exhibitions on Africa. Its noncredit Africa Seminar is open to all students and faculty members. The Committee offers undergraduate summer grants for senior honors thesis study and graduate dissertation research grants for travel to Africa.

The courses listed below deal either directly or indirectly with the study of Africa. A more detailed description of these courses may be found in this catalog under the appropriate department or committee. Other relevant courses are listed in the catalogs of the schools of Public Health, Education, Law, Divinity, Business, and the Kennedy School of Government. Each September, the Committee publishes “African Studies at Harvard,” a University-wide guide to courses, faculty, and programs. The guide is posted at our website: www.fas.harvard.edu/~cafrica. A printed version is available at the Committee’s administrative office in Coolidge Hall 202, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138, or by calling (617) 495-5265. The fax number is (617) 496-5183, and email is cafrica@fas.harvard.edu.

(Core) Foreign Cultures 70; Historical Study B-52, B-57; Literature and Arts B-27, B-78; Social Analysis 52, 56;

Afro-American Studies 128, 165y, 169;

Anthropology 105, 123, 139, 140, 256, 277;

English 167p;

Folklore and Mythology 113;

French 42, 70c, 188, 194, 289r;

Government 90km, 1100, 2162, 2197;

History 1901, 1903, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1915, 1920, 1921, 2909;

History of Art and Architecture 196;

History of Science 153;

Linguistics 140;

Medical Sciences 322;

Music 178r;

(Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations) Swahili A, 120ar, 120br;

Religion 1017, 1551, 2800;

Social Studies 98aa, 98ca, 98cr;

Women’s Studies 110c.