Core faculty

Jesse Shipley, Assistant Professor of Africa and African Diaspora Studies and Anthropology

B.A., Brown University; M.A., Ph.D., Socio-Cultural Anthropology University of Chicago 2003. Areas of interest include Ghana and the African Diaspora; global racial politics race; British colonialism, postcolonial states, and national citizenship; mass media, popular culture and performance. Awards: Fulbright-IIE Dissertation Grant, Accra, Ghana (1998–99); Wenner-Gren Foundation Grant for Dissertation Research (1998–2000) Accra, Ghana; Residential Predoctoral Fellowship, Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies, University of Virginia (2001–03). Publications include: "From Visuality to Postcolonial African Politics: An Interview with Mohamed Saidou N'Daou." Public Culture 2004; "'The Best Tradition Goes On': Popular Theater and Televised Soap in Neoliberal Ghana" (in Neoliberalism and Social Reproduction in Africa; University of Chicago Press, forthcoming); Coauthor, "African/Diaspora History: W. E. B. DuBois and Pan-Africanism in Ghana" (in Ghana in Africa and the World: Essays in honor of Adu Boahen (Africa World Press, 2003);  (Bard 2003-  )

Office: Hopson 304
Phone: 845-758-7201
E-mail: shipley@bard.edu