Results for "Center for African and African American Studies"

Website: http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/caaas/

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Shirley Thompson

Affiliated Departments:
John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies, American Studies, African and African Diaspora Studies
Research Interests:

The cultural richness of American (U.S. and other) spaces; nineteenth century cultural history; narratives of slavery and freedom; race and ethnicity; African American literature; historiography

Almeida Toribio

Affiliated Departments:
John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, Spanish and Portuguese, African and African Diaspora Studies
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Juliet E K Walker

Affiliated Departments:
John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies, History, African and African Diaspora Studies
Research Interests:

African American history; antebellum slavery; black business history and political economy; black intellectual history; African American women's history
Professor Walker is presently engaged in a book-…

Samuel Watkins

Affiliated Departments:
Radio-Television-Film, John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies, African and African Diaspora Studies
Research Interests:

The "new urban market” (a dynamic web of industries, products, market segments, sensibilities, and cultural narratives that signal the arrival of profound shifts in how entertainment and educational media…

Jennifer M Wilks

Affiliated Departments:
African and African Diaspora Studies, Comparative Literature, English, John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies
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Professor Wilks recently finished Carmen in Diaspora: Adaptation, Race, and Opera's Most Famous Character (forthcoming from Oxford University Press), a cultural history of adaptations of the Carmen story set…

Helena Woodard

Affiliated Departments:
John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies, Comparative Literature, English, African and African Diaspora Studies
Research Interests:

American literature; 18th century British literature; literary theory; ethnic and Third World literature; women, gender, and literature