The Minor / Faculty / Program Web Pages

Location: Howley Hall 301
Phone: 401-865-2907
Fax: 401-865-1222

The Black Studies Program seeks to provide students with clear, precise, reliable, and accurate knowledge about the African-American community within the framework of a liberal arts education at a religious institution of higher learning.

The program fosters a strong grounding in the African-American community's contemporary state, history and traditions, unique culture, collective experience, and antecedent connection with Africa and African history.

To that end, teaching, analysis, and research within the program are directed toward the community's world view, core beliefs, structures of relationships, patterns of moral and ethical discourse, political thought and action, experience of and response to racism, cultural motifs, and historical foundations.

The Minor
A minor in black studies is available.

For detailed information on the requirements for the black studies minor, as well as course listings and descriptions, please see the on-line undergraduate catalog. 

The Faculty
Professors
Anthony D. Affigne, Ph.D. (Political Science)
Eric L. Hirsch, Ph.D., Director  (Sociology)

Assistant Professor
Matthew B. Dowling, Ph.D. (History)

Visit the Web pages maintained by the Black Studies Program: http://www.providence.edu/afro/