Africana Studies | Current Students
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Africana Studies Minor Requirements
For more information contact, Dr. Andrew J. Rosa, Africana Studies Program Coordinator (andrew.rosa@wku.edu or 270.745.3841).
Recent Student Spotlights
Tani Washington graduated in Spring 2024 with a double-major in International Affairs and History and a double minor in Africana Studies and Economics. From 2021 to 2024, she served as the student ambassador for the Africana Studies program - a position that allowed her to organize several program events. As a student researcher, Tani focused on speculative history of the African Diaspora, racialized theories of democratization, and nation building in the African context. After studying abroad in Senegal during the summer of 2023, she completed her undergraduate thesis - "Viva Wakanda: What Afrofuturism Gives to an Emancipated Diaspora."
Tani Washington '24 is WKU's First Gaither Junior Fellow
Lamont Jack Pearley is the Executive Director/ Founder of Jack Dappa Blues Heritage Preservation Foundation and the African American Folklorist magazine. He's an applied folklorist, African American traditional music historian, and traditional country blues practitioner inducted into the New York Blues Hall of Fame as Great Blues Historian, and TV/Radio Producer, and Great Blues Artist. He completed an undergraduate degree in Broadcasting with minors in Folklore and Africana Studies and an MA in Folk Studies at WKU.
