Africa History
Graduate students are encouraged to consider Africa as
a field of comparative study. In the past, students in US history have
completed minor field requirements in Africa, focusing on environmental
history and the African diaspora. Because the UO offers no training
in African languages, only students with existing fluency in an African
language should consider applying for the MA and PhD programs in African
history.
FAIR, Laura.
Associate Professor (Ph.D., 1994, Minnesota), specializes in urban history
of twentieth century East Africa, with a particular focus on issues
of ethnicity, gender, and popular culture. Her publications include
Pastimes and Politics: Culture, Community and Identity in Post-abolition
Urban Zanzibar, 1890-1945 (Ohio, 2001). She is currently working
on a history of commercial cinema in Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda.
The University of
Oregon does not have a formal academic program in African studies. Courses
with content on Africa may be offered in the Anthropology, Dance, English,
Geography, History, Humanities, International Studies, Journalism, Linguistics,
Music, and Romance Language departments. The African studies committee
seeks to encourage teaching and scholarship on Africa, with an emphasis
on sub-Saharan Africa. The committee also seeks funding to expand African
studies resources and organizes campus and local community events pertaining
to Africa in cooperation with the African Students Assocation. In addition,
the committee supports faculty and student research on Africa in collaboration
with the Research Interest Group on African Studies funded by the Oregon
Humanities Center.
Fertility, Sexuality and Motherhood (Fair)
Post-colonial African Film and Politics (Fair)
Colonial Urban Africa (Fair)
Swahili Coast (Fair)
Urban South Africa (Fair)
Ethnicity in African History and Historiography (Fair)
