Africana Studies at New York University is part of the Department ofSocial and Cultural Analysis. Africana Studies is an interdisciplinaryundertaking devoted to scholarship on the histories, political and culturalmovements, institutions, economies and identities of Africans and the Africandiaspora across the globe. Africa’s own overlapping modernities and thetransnational migrations of its peoples–whether forced or voluntary--havecomplicated the meanings of “black” and “African” identities and experiences,prompting us to rethink the geographical boundaries and conceptual paradigmssurrounding the production of knowledge about Africa and its diasporiccommunities.

NYU's location in one of the western hemisphere’s most cosmopolitan cities–hometo many of the broad constituencies we aim to study in relation to their othercontinental settings--places us in a privileged position to lead and shape thedevelopment of Africana Studies in the 21st century. Accordingly, the programis a site for interdisciplinary and cross-cultural teaching and research in thehistories, cultures, economies, politics, and languages and cultural practicesof Africans in Africa, the Americas–North and South, the Caribbean, Europe,Asia-Pacific and the Middle-East. Theprogram maintains close relationships with community programming and researchactivities by NYU's Institute of African-American Affairsand Africa House.

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