Doctor's degree African-American Studies - Northwestern University

Doctor's degree African-American Studies from Northwestern University is a Campus Ph.D African American degree that prepares you for a Liberal Arts career. African American Studies , by its very nature, is an interdisciplinary field. It acquaints the student with myriad ways of thinking (historical, sociological, literary, quantitative analysis), researching, and writing about the diverse experiences of African Americans in the United States and of African descended people throughout the African Diaspora (from dispersion, colonialism, the slave trade and slavery, through emancipation, decolonization, independence, and postcolonialism). African American Studies brings together the voluminous scholarship generated by past and present historians; political scientists; sociologists; cultural, literary, and performance studies critics; and scholars working on diverse topics and constructions of class, race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. The Department offers advanced graduate training through a PhD in African American Studies. Three substantive areas form the basis of this program: 1. Expressive Arts and Cultural Studies; 2. Histories; 3. Politics, Society, and Culture. Each of these areas is populated by scholars within the department who focus their research within a domestic and/or international context. The Ph.D. program in African American Studies provides students with the historical background in the experiences of people of African descent, the analytic preparation to carry out rigorous empirical research, and the professional development to pursue careers in academia or beyond. Traditionally the social sciences and humanities have found their subject matter within the contours of the western nation-state system and the European and American lineage of western history and philosophy. The first wave of intellectual developments in Black Studies and African American Studies from the 1960s onwards challenged the neglect and exclusion of critical analyses of Atlantic slavery, western colonialism and American racism; and facilitated research in the expressive traditions of Black cultural and political movements and the racial dynamics of contemporary social life and public policy. This was an extremely important period of nation-centered and historiographic scholarship, opening up new fields of sustained inquiry, and underwriting the longevity and vitality of the African American intellectual tradition. Consequently, over the last 40 years African American Studies with its emphasis on national intellectual inclusiveness and critique has to a considerable extent influenced, if not transformed, the epistemologies and methodologies of the social sciences and humanities in the US. At the same time, the scholarship produced by African American Studies has been disseminated through a dynamic transnational circuit of intellectuals, literary movements and knowledge production across the urban centers of Latin America, Canada, the Caribbean, Africa and Europe. View more details on Northwestern University . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related African American courses.