African Studies is interdisciplinary and faculty are in more than 15 different disciplines at Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke and Smith Colleges and the University of Massachusetts. For
a listing of faculty by department click here. Links to faculty’s home departments are provided on each faculty web page. In addition, three of the colleges have departments or programs with a focus on Africa.
Amherst College
Black Studies Department
Department Coordinator: Karla Keyes
Tel: (413) 542-5800
Fax: (413) 542-2133
E-mail: blackstudies@amherst.edu
Mitzi Goheen, Chair
Mailing Address:
Department of Black Studies
Amherst College
AC #2251
Amherst, MA 01002-5000
Shipping Address:
Department of Black Studies
Amherst College
108 Cooper House
86 College Street
Amherst, MA 01002
Mount Holyoke College
African American and African Studies Program
Tel: 413-538-2377/2577
Fax: 413-538-2513
Mount Holyoke College
50 College Street
South Hadley, MA 01075-6402
The Program Office is located in 312 Skinner Hall.
Contacts:
Holly J. Sharac, Senior Administrative Assistant: hsharac@mtholyoke.edu
Holly E. Hanson, Chair: hhanson@mtholyoke.edu
Smith College
African Studies Department
Director: Greg White
Government Department
gwhite@email.smith.edu
Tel: 413-585-3542
Smith College
Northampton, MA 01063
fax: 413-585-3389
Judy H. Fountain, Social Sciences Academic Secretary
(413)585-3602
jfountai@email.smith.edu
413-585-3602
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies
Tel: 413-545-2751
Fax: 413-545-0628
325 New Africa House
180 Infirmary Way
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Amherst, MA 01003-9289 USA
Chair of Department: Professor Amilcar Shabazz
Graduate Program Director: Professor Robert Paul Wolff
Head Secretary: Tricia Loveland