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Columbia U.: Columbia U. hires new Africana studies professors.
(From University Wire)
Byline: Kira Goldenberg
Barnard has hired two new faculty members for its Africana studies program, echoing Columbia University-wide efforts to rejuvenate African-related scholarship.
The new faculty members are Severine Autesserre in political science and Abosede George in history. Autesserre is a specialist on the Congo, completing a post-doctoral year at Yale University, and George teaches African history with joint appointments in history and international studies at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn.
The two hires represent a move by Barnard to expand its Africana studies program, which students say has been lacking resources due to a rapid succession of program directors-three in four years.
Current director Kim Hall, an English professor, called the hires a "baby step," because she sees program-specific senior faculty as necessary to help its growth. Unlike academic departments, which can hire their own tenure-track faculty, programs draw on professors across disciplines. Because Africana studies is a program, participants expressed concern that the new hires will not be able to devote sufficient energy to enriching the major can that replace But Barnard Provost Elizabeth Boylan expressed confidence that the hires would be beneficial.
"Both of them will strengthen the social science side of the Africana studies program," she said.
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