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Department of Cultures, Societies, and Global Studies Program

Africana Studies Program

Africana Studies is an interdisciplinary program with a mission of teaching and conducting research in social sciences and humanities fields on the historical and contemporary experiences across the global African Diaspora.

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Learn about students who studied Africana Studies.

Savita Maharaj

  • Savita is from Boston and is a graduate of the Boston Latin School.
  • Originally a Cultural Anthropology major, Savita later became an English major with minors in Africana Studies and Writing Studies.
  • Through the service-learning course, Boston in Literature, Savita volunteered with 826 Boston to tutor in English. She is now a service-learning teaching assistant.
  • For her final project in Post-Colonial Women's Writers with Professor Aljoe, she researched Carnival and its cultural significance to Trinidad and Tobago.
  • Inspired by Professor Aljoe, Savita joined the Early Caribbean Digital Archive, working on an exhibit about Caribbean Carnival and creating and gathering teaching materials.
  • In 2020, she began a co-op with the Africana Studies program to learn more about the field of Black Studies.
  • Savita wants to work to better her own community. In the future, she hopes to become a high school teacher or a college professor. ..

Asiah Stewart

  • Asiah came into Northeastern as a Nursing major, but quickly switched to a Psychology major. She began her African American Studies minor in her sophomore year.
  • Asiah joined SIS (Sisters in Solidarity) in her sophomore year and stayed with the group through her junior year. She loved celebrating Black womanhood and bringing things from the classroom to the group.
  • During her Human Services dialogue to London, Asiah took classes while doing an internship where she worked with young adults experiencing homelessness and mental illness.
  • One of Asiah's favorite courses at Northeastern was The African-American Experience through Music with Professor Eric Jackson, where she learned about the Slave Bible for the first time.
  • Asiah's two fields of study often overlapped. For example, she took a sociology course which discussed implicit bias, and then took an AFAM class with Gia Barboza where they also discussed implicit bias.
  • The pandemic and the resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement inspired Asiah to go back into nursing post-grad. She plans to use her Psychology and African American studies knowledge in the field.
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Africana Studies at Northeastern

Africana Studies is a truly global and interdisciplinary degree. College graduates with Africana Studies degrees have become doctors, lawyers, entertainers, politicians, public health professionals, diplomats, professors, astronauts, journalists, engineers, artists, poets, executives, entrepreneurs, and more! Africana Studies also relates to numerous other fields allowing students to take advantage of the field’s interdisciplinary nature by taking courses in other fields, or by pursuing a double major, combined degree, or a minor in another subject

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