• » Sonya Donaldson, visiting assistant professor of Africana studies
• » Amy Jordan, associate professor of African American history
• » Christopher M. Tinson, assistant professor of African American studies

• » Beauty: The Experience and Struggle of Females within the African Diaspora
• » Health Disparity: Diabetes and African Americans in Boston
• » The Trotters of Boston: Fighting Jim Crow from “Freedom’s Birthplace”
• » Politics of Difference: African-Americans Encountering Islam
• » What it Feels Like for a Girl: Black and Mixed-Race Women’s Identity Construction

• » Twentieth Century Social Transformation in the African Diaspora
• » African-Americans and the News “Media Event”
• » African-American Perspectives on the Blues
• » African-American Poetry
• » Black Nationalism
• » Commodities of Desire: Gendered Signs, Racialized Representations, and Pop Culture
• » Critical Race Theory: The Color of Law, Politics, and Gender
• » Equal Protection of the Laws: Gender, Sex, and Race Discrimination in America
• » Gender, Race, and Class
• » The Harlem Renaissance and Negritude
• » Interpreting the “Movement”: Civil Rights and Black Power Struggles of the Late 20th Century

• » Race, Science, and Politics
• » Reading, Writing, and Citizenship: African-American Educational Campaigns

The Five College African Studies Certificate Program
Faculty from the Five Colleges continue to be invested in sustaining African-American studies across disciplines. Over thirty courses each semester are taught on African studies through the consortium. The Five College African Studies Certificate Program was created in 1997 to provide students access to a diverse listing of courses. An African Studies Council was designed by faculty members to oversee the certificate program, sponsor lectures and cultural events, and sustain residencies by distinguished scholars.

The Center for Crossroads in the Study of the Americas (CISA)
Founded in 1997, the Center for Crossroads in the Study of the Americas (CISA) brings together faculty from the Five College consortium who wish to work together to explore relational aspects of identity in the Americas. Instead of adopting a bipolar, “North-South” approach, CISA has developed a “triangular” model for its work, where the three sides are formed by the “Old World” (Africa, Asia, Europe), the polities of the New World, and the indigenous peoples of the Americas.

This conception of the Americas as a crossroads seeks to promote an awareness of the historical and material inter-relationality of citizenship, migration, diaspora, and nationhood. The Center sponsors a number of faculty seminars, curriculum development groups, student symposia, a visiting faculty program, and public events.

Multicultural and International Student Services
The office of multicultural and international student services (MISS) is housed in the Lebrón-Wiggins-Pran Cultural Center.

MISS provides a network of comprehensive services and innovative programs that support and advance the intellectual, personal, cultural, and social development of students of color and international students.

MISS and the Cultural Center work closely with multicultural student groups that make up SOURCE (Students of Under-Represented Cultures and Ethnicities). These groups serve the following populations: indigenous; mixed heritag;, queer people of color and international students; Asian/Asian American; Latino/a American; African/African American; international; James Baldwin Scholars; and women of color and international women.

Additionally, the international student advisor is housed in MISS to assist international students with U.S. immigration and employment regulations, cross-cultural adjustment, and much more.