Professor Robert Baum is writing the first continent-wide history of African religion, with a focus on indigenous religions.
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AAAS Professor Jesse Weaver Shipley presents a paper at Goldsmiths, University of London: "The Aesthetics of Politics: A Practical Guide to Coups d'Etats."
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Apply now for the Fall 2017 off-campus study program in Accra, Ghana.
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On November 3rd, the first annual forum at Dartmouth for considering the study of Africa in global terms was convened by Professors Naaborko Sackeyfio-Lenoch and Jesse Shipley.
[more]I am a 2015 graduate of Dartmouth College from Clearwater, Florida. While at Dartmouth, I majored in African & African American Studies and served as the President of the Afro-American Society. My senior year, I was awarded a Senior Fellowship to produce a thirty-minute documentary film on the complexity of black male identity. I also received the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship, William Cook-Louise Cook Jacobs Award, and Dean's Plate Award. Now, I am a second-year PhD student in the Department of African American Studies at Northwestern University.
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