The Institute of African Studies offers an active community of scholars and a lively focus of activity to persons interested in Africa. It has fourteen core faculty members drawn from the College of Arts and Sciences, the School of Law and the School of Public Health. An associated faculty of twenty-two is drawn from the School of Arts and Sciences and other divisions of the university. The Institute promotes interdisciplinary teaching and research on Africa, administers an undergraduate minor and, as of Fall 2004, a new major. The Institute also coordinates graduate training in African Studies at Emory. The Institute runs an on-going seminar in African studies, hosts visiting African scholars, and regularly sponsors conferences, exhibitions, and special events on Africa. With its resources and activities, the Institute of African Studies encourages and supports rich and diverse Africanist teaching, scholarship, and outreach.

We welcome you and encourage you to browse the pages of this newly redesigned and updated web site. Here, you will find a detailed description of all aspects of the Institute's activities and mission, past, present and future. We invite you to visit us often as some of our resources are updated and expanded on a regular basis. We have added new pages describing our undergraduate programs as well as our graduate activities. The site now hosts several searchable databases and archives, including undergraduate and graduate course atlases, archived and planned events as well as a searchable catalog for Emory's film and visual collections. We are also the proud host of Cultural Crossings: A Gender Imagebase (Africa and the Caribbean), a joint project of Emory University and the University of West Indies, which is funded in part by a Fulbright grant.