Africana Studies
Africana Studies is an interdisciplinary major that explores the scholarship on the history and cultural traditions, and the political and economic circumstances which together define over 1.2 billion people of African descent. Students take a common set of core courses, and may select one of three tracks in which to concentrate:
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African Studies
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African-American Studies
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African-Diaspora Studies
The central mission of the Program is to prepare students for lifelong learning, graduate study in various fields, and careers in private and public organizations worldwide. Africana Studies seeks to develop a habit of thinking that is inter-disciplinarily analytical and a habit of heart that is cross-culturally empathetic. Embracing more than the centrality of race, it is designed to apply a comparative lens to the study of imperial, national, ethnic, linguistic, and religious currents and intersections in Africa, and its far-flung Diaspora in North America, the Caribbean Basin, Latin America, the Middle East, South Asia, and Western Europe.
Music faculty to present Black History Month performances
Members of William & Mary's music faculty will present performances -- both on stage and on TV -- in honor of Black History Month in the next few weeks.Anna Swanson '13 responds to "Soo What Do You do with an Africana Major?”
Anna Swanson, an Africana Studies major and Class 2013 gave a "Chapel Talk" at the Episcopal Academy on December 1, 2011. In this presentation to her high school, Anna provides an eloquent reflection on her experience in international service learning and study abroad--especially in Africa. 
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Job Opening in Africana Studies: Mellon Fellow
AFST invites applications from recent Ph.D.s for the position of a Mellon Faculty Fellow in the humanities or humanistic social sciences. All application materials must be submitted online at https://jobs.wm.edu.
