Of Mediation and Movement: Global Africa as Contested Terrain

Come join students, faculty, and members of the Boston Community to welcome Professor Michael Gomez. He is currently Silver Professor of History and Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University, having served as the founding director of the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD) from its inception in 2000 to 2007, and is currently series editor of the Cambridge Studies on the African Diaspora, Cambridge University Press. He has chaired History departments at both NYU and Spelman College, and also served as President of UNESCO's International Scientific Committee for the Slave Route Project from 2009 to 2011.

Host or Publisher African American & Black Diaspora Studies Program