Department of African American Studies Records, 1969-2016

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Collection Overview

Creator:

Princeton University. Dept. of African American Studies.

Title:

Department of African American Studies Records

Repository:

Princeton University Archives

Permanent URL:

http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/jd472w46j

Dates:

1969-2016

Size:

2 boxes and 1 websites

Storage Note:

Mudd Manuscript Library (scamudd): Box 1-2

Language:

English

Abstract: The Department of African American Studies at Princeton University is an academic department of Princeton University. The records consist of course proposals and descriptions, proposals for a post-doctoral program, and meeting minutes and correspondence of the interdepartmental committee as well as past versions of the department's website.

Collection Description & Creator Information

Scope and Contents

Consists of course proposals and descriptions, proposals for a post-doctoral program, and meeting minutes and correspondence of the interdepartmental committee. The origin of the bulk of the correspondence is committee member Professor Steve Slaby. Much of it pertains to the appointment of new program chairman Cornel West in 1987-88. Also included in the collection is a report to the Rockefellar Foundation describing the Program's graduate and faculty research from 1970-1977. Also includes a compilation of Program in African American Studies Memoirs. The collection also contains past versions of the department's websites.

Collection Creator Biography:

Princeton University. Dept. of African American Studies.

The Department of African American Studies at Princeton University is an academic department of Princeton University. Organized in 1969 under the title Afro-American Studies, the program was funded early on by generous grants from the Ford Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation. Professors in the program have included such notable names in African American literature and scholarship as Toni Morrison and Cornel West, who served as chairman from 1988-1994.

In 2006, the program became the Center for African American Studies, with English scholar Valerie Smith (later Dean of the College) serving as the Center's first chair until her 2011 appointment as the Dean of the College. Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., professor in the Religion Department, succeeded Smith as chair of the Center. In the spring of 2015, the Center achieved Department status and became the Department of African American Studies, with professor Glaude, Jr. serving as the Department's first chair.

Collection History

Acquisition:: Materials have been transferred in the following accessions: AR.2007.094, AR.2012.073, and AR.2014.068.
Appraisal: No appraisal information is available.
Processing Information: This collection was processed by Mudd Library staff in 2012. Finding aid written by Mudd Library staff in 2012 and edited by Jarrett M. Drake in 2014.

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