History Department
Diaspora Letter
August 1, 2002
Sanu da zuwa! Maharba!
Greetings, friends! And welcome to the History Department's African Diaspora Certificate program! This site will give you basic information about the program, the required courses and the History Department Faculty members who teach them. You will also find active links to websites that we think will help you to explore Africa and the African Diaspora.
What
is the African Diaspora Certificate Program?
The African Diaspora
Certificate program was put into place in 1996. The field has grown dramatically
since 1996 as scholars have uncovered and studied vital, new sources of
evidence and pioneered new methodologies and theoretical perspectives
in their work. The public response has been equally dramatic and the history
of the African Diaspora, especially to the Americas, has added important
insights into the ways we think about gender, race, history and memory
here in the United States.
What are Our Goals?
Our goal is to provide
students with opportunities to study the history of Africa and African's
in the Atlantic world, focusing especially on this theme in the United
States, Latin America and the Caribbean. In our teaching and scholarship
we expand the global history of the African experience, which for so long
has been confined to brief glimpses of the Atlantic slave trade.
Who Are We?
As a Department of History,
we are fortunate to have a collective of scholars whose work fully represents
the vitality and originality of the distinct fields of historical scholarship
and teaching that support our African Diaspora Certificate Program.
I would like to invite you to look over the brief faculty statements each of us have posted on the History Department's website and the sample of syllabi, describing courses in our African Diaspora Certificate Program.
Our faculty include:
- Mary Bivins, Ph.D (Michigan State University),Assistant Professor of African History, West Africa, Woman, Islam Culture & Ethnicity.
- Gregory Conerly, Ph.D (University of Iowa), Assistant Professor, post-Civil War U.S., Race, Gender and Sexuality.
- Dillard Poole, Ph.D (Indiana University) Adjunct, Slavery, 19th century Brazil.
- Donald Ramos, Ph.D (University of Florida), Professor of History, Slavery and Race in 18th & 19th century Brazil.
- Dorothy
Salem Ph.D (Kent State University) African American History, Women's
History, Immigration History, Urban History.
- Jose
Sola Ph.D Candidate (University of Connecticut) Puerto Rico, Spanish
Caribbean, Modern Latin America, Colonialism and Imperialism, Popular
culture.
- Robert Shelton, Ph.D (Rice University), Assistant Professor, 19th century US History.
- Karen Sotiropoulos Ph.D (City University of New York), Assistant Professor, African-American History.
- Mark
Tebeau Ph.D (Carnegie Mellon University) US Urban, Social, and Industrial
History; Public History; Social Studies
- Robert Wheeler Ph.D (Brown University) American Colonial and Family History and the Western Reserve
- Regennia Williams Ph.D (Case Western Reserve University), Assistant Professor, African-American History
For further
information contact:
The Department of History, Cleveland State University, 2121 Euclid Avenue,
Cleveland, OH 44115
216-687-3920 Fax: 216-687-5592
Department of History
College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
Cleveland State University
2121 Euclid Ave., RT 1915
Cleveland, OH 44115-2214
Rhodes Tower 1915
1860 E. 22nd Street