African Studies

The African Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary forum for graduate students and faculty whose work concerns the material and sociocultural lives of people of the African continent and its discursively constituted diasporas, presently and historically. Student participants tend mostly to come from the Anthropology Department, but the workshop also has active members in the fields of history, literature, political science, religious studies, and history of culture and ecnourages cross-disiplinary collaboration and exchange. In addition to regular presentations by students, faculty, and invited guests, the workshop hosts biannual Red Lion Seminars jointly with Northwestern University.