The African Studies Center at Penn is an interdisciplinary program that offers undergraduate students an opportunity to explore the historic and cultural diversity of sub-Saharan African peoples.

          The major and minor courses of study provide an understanding of the dynamics of the continent's social, political and economic systems and insights into the profound impact of African societies on many countries in Europe, the Near East, and particularly North and South America and the Caribbean.

    African Studies' course offerings are included in the Departments of Anthropology, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Comparative Literature, Economics, English, Folklore and Folklife, History, History of Art, History and Sociology of Science, International Studies & Business, Linguistics, Music, Philosophy, Political Science, Religious Studies, Romance Languages, Sociology, and Women's Studies, as well as the Schools of Education, Social Work, Nursing, Wharton, and the Penn Language Center.

    Scholarly activities of Africanists on the Penn campus are coordinated by Penn faculty associated with the African Studies Center. The program also includes visiting scholars and interested academics throughout the Philadelphia area. The Center works to keep the Penn community abreast of current research, events, and scholarship, and maintains a large network of Africanists who exchange information on courses and activities.

    The African Studies Center is a member of a consortium that includes Haverford, Bryn Mawr and Swarthmore Colleges. Students may take courses for credit at any consortium campus.

T - Tenured Faculty; U - Not tenured Faculty

  Roger Abrahams, Professor (T), Folklore & Folklife
  Houston Baker, Professor (T), English; Director, Center for the Study of Black
     Literature and Culture
  Rita Barnard, Assoc. Professor (T), English
  Sandra T. Barnes, Professor (T), Anthropology
  Herman Beavers, Professor (T), English; Director, Afro-American Studies
     Center
  Jere Behrman, Professor (T), Economics
  Dan Ben-Amos, Professor (T), Folklore & Folklife
  Thomas M. Callaghy, Professor (T), Political Science
  Lee V. Cassanelli, Assoc. Professor (T), History
  Richard Estes, Professor (T), School of Social Work
  Steven Feierman, Professor (T), History; History & Sociology of Science
  Renee Fox, Professor (T), Sociology
  Marja Hoek-Smit, Lecturer (U), Wharton School
  Rebecca Huss-Ashmore, Assoc. Professor (T), Anthropology
  Sr. Rose Kershbaumer, Spec. Projects Coordinator(Core Faculty), Nursing
  Igor Kopytoff, Professor (T), Anthropology
  Henrika Kuklick, Professor (T), History & Sociology of Science
  Mark Liberman, Professor (T), Linguistics
  Mohamed Maamouri, Assoc. Director, International Literacy Institute, College
     of Education
  Alan Mann Professor (T), Anthropology
  Tukufu Zuberi, Assoc. Professor (T), Population Studies; Director, African
     Studies Center
  Lydie Moudileno , Asst. Professor (U), Romance Languages
  Kwaku Ohene-Frempong, Director, Sickle Cell Center, CHOP
  Alwiya Omar, Lecturer, African Languages Coordinator, Linguistics; Penn
     Language Center
  Howard Pack, Professor (T), Wharton School
  John W. Roberts, Assoc. Professor (T), Folklore & Folklife
  Ahmed Shariff, Lecturer, Political Sciences
  Louise Shoemaker, Professor (T), Emeritus, School of Social Work
  Donald Silberberg, Professor, Neurology; Senior Assoc. Dean, and Director
     International Medical Programs
  David Silverman, Professor (T), Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
  Joyce Thompson, Professor(T), Nursing
  Etienne Van de Walle, Professor (T), Population Studies
  Daniel A. Wagner, Professor (T), College of Education; Director, International
     Literacy Institute
  Joseph Washington, Professor (T), Emeritus, Religious Studies
  Susan Watkins, Professor (T), Sociology; Population Studies
  Josef Wegner, Asst. Professor (U), Asian & Middle Eastern Studies

Lynette Loose
Program Coordinator
lloose@sas.upenn.edu

University of Pennsylvania
645 Williams Hall
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305
Telephone:(215) 898-6971
Fax:(215) 573-8130

Tukufu Zuberi
Director
tukufu@pop.upenn.edu