• Cert Degree Requirements
• Curriculum

The Program of African Studies (PAS) serves as a center of graduate training where students find support for the development of their own multidisciplinary programs of study. The program is a place of informal interaction for faculty, students, visiting scholars, and others from the University as well as well as the Chicago area. Formally constituted research activities are undertaken in the following thematic areas: Governance and Development, Africa in the Islamic World, the African Diaspora, the Impact of HIV/AIDS in Africa, and the African Humanities. Northwestern ’s Herskovits Library of African Studies, a part of the University Library since 1954, provides an unparalleled resource for Africanist research and training, annually attracting hundreds of visiting scholars from the United States and abroad.

While academic degrees are granted only through departments (as a research center, PAS is nonadmitting), the program awards graduate Certificates in African Studies to those who fulfill interdisciplinary course requirements. The program organizes conferences, workshops, lectures, and research programs, often in cooperation with Northwestern's academic departments, professional schools, and specialized centers PAS also undertakes efforts to enable graduate students to secure funding from various internal and external sources to support their dissertation research in Africa.

Faculty

The primary appointment for those faculty with joint or affiliate status in another program is noted in parentheses.