ÿþ<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>HU History:Chair statement</TITLE> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> </HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR=#FFFFFF text="#000000" link="#FF9900" vlink="#FF9900" alink="#FF6600" LEFTMARGIN=0 TOPMARGIN=0 MARGINWIDTH=0 MARGINHEIGHT=0> <TABLE WIDTH=100% BORDER=0 CELLPADDING=0 CELLSPACING=0> <!--DWLayoutTable--> <TR> <TD height="147" COLSPAN=5 background="images/banner_bg.jpg"> <IMG SRC="images/banner.jpg" WIDTH=800 HEIGHT=147 ALT=""></TD> <TR background="images/bottum_bar.gif"> <TD height="27">&nbsp;</TD> <TD COLSPAN=3 valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <!--DWLayoutTable--> <tr> <td width="799" height="27" valign="middle" background="images/bottum_bar.gif"> <div align="center"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong><a href="chair.html">CHAIR STATEMENT</a> |<a href="faculty.html"> FACULTY</a> | <a href="graduate.html">GRADUATE</a> | <a href="undergraduate.html">UNDERGRADUATE</a> | <a href="courses.htm">COURSES</a> | <a href="events.html">NEWS AND EVENTS</a> | <a href="Links.html">LINKS</a> |<a href="INDEX.HTML"> HOME</a> | <a href="HTTP://WWW.COAS.HOWARD.EDU">COAS</a> </strong></font></div></td> </tr> </table></TD></TR> <TR> <TD width="1" height="408"><!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->&nbsp; </TD> <TD width="1">&nbsp;</TD> <TD width="747" valign="top"><blockquote> <p><font size="4" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Statement From Chair</strong></font></p> <p><font size="2"face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The Department of History at Howard University seeks to foster an appreciation of both the profundity and diversity of human experience. It has a faculty which studies many of the main areas of the world. The Department is particularly involved with Africa and the United States. American history is one of the Department's strengths and its Americanist faculty are actively engaged in relating the major themes of the United States experience to issues of particular relevance to the African American community. It is in the intersection of race, class and gender that much of our research is carried out. The interconnections between African-American history and its broader context offer our students a chance to study the particular without being particularistic; it offers an opportunity to observe the whole American mosaic through the prism of previously understudied or marginalized communities.</p> <p>One of the most exciting developments within the Department has been the burgeoning interest in public history. Howard is involved in various projects which touch on the historic development of surrounding communities as well as teaching aimed at archivists, museologists and preservationists. The Department has won numerous grants from the National Park Service for the training of interns and is actively working with the National African-American Civil War Memorial on the development of a museum to African-American soldiers. This project has received a major grant from the Kellogg Foundation.</p> <p>Africa is another focus of the Department's teaching and research. Howard was a pioneer in the teaching of African history in the United States. The Department is especially fortunate to have three Africanists whose areas of specialization cover almost areas of the continent. Central, West and Northeastern Africa are particularly well covered. The university is also the sponsor of the Howard University Republic of South Africa Project (HURSAP). The project is aimed at facilitating visits and seminars with faculty, staff and administrators at Howard University and several South African universities.</p> <p>Because the twin poles of teaching and research interest are Africa and the Americas, the Department has developed a keen interest in the African Diaspora. The graduate program includes Diasporic Studies as both a major and minor field. Scholars within the Department study topics areas as diverse as the Caribbean, Brazil and the African presence in Asia.</p> <p>The History Department at Howard plans to increase its offering to include wider areas of the world. Looking at the increasing inter-relatedness of humankind, we shall endeavor to expand not only geographically, but also to explore issues of emerging ethnicities, globalization, and gender roles. Howard University welcomes you.</p> </blockquote></TD> <TD width="277" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <!--DWLayoutTable--> <tr> <td width="277" height="408" valign="top"><blockquote> <div align="left"> <p align="left"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><img src="images/medford.jpg" width="226" height="298"></font></p> <font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Edna Greene Medford</b><br> Professor of History<br> Telephone: 202-806-9326<br> Fax: 202-806-4471<br> Email: <a href="mailto:emedford@howard.edu">emedford@howard.edu</a></font><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br> </font> </div> </blockquote></td> </tr> </table></TD> </TR> </TR> </TABLE> </BODY> </HTML>