AFRICAN HISTORY PROJECT

Recent hires have made African history and the African diaspora an area of great strength for the NYU Department of History. With additional faculty hiring, support for graduate students and undergraduate scholarships, NYU can become the pre-eminent location in the country for the study of African history and the African diaspora. The African History Project is also ideally positioned to make use of a new category of professorship in Arts and Science, the Global Distinguished Professor. These special professorships are intended to take advantage of the increasingly international character of scholarship and to attract the worlds leading scholars to Arts and Science departments. The University enters into multi-year agreements with these scholars for recurring visits of four to fifteen weeks duration each year. During these visits, they are fully involved in the teaching and scholarly enterprise of a department, and as recurring visitors they become members of the departments extended faculty.

In support of the African History Project, the University is seeking funding for faculty chairs, distinguished global professorships, graduate fellowships, research and travel grants for undergraduate and graduate students.