African American Studies Department
- Department of African American Studies
- Atrium Building 643 (A-643)
- Dr. Marta Effinger-Crichlow
- Professor and Interim Chair
- Phone: 718.260.5254
- E-mail: meffinger@citytech.cuny.edu
- Ms. Hazel Gibbs
- Administrative Assistant
- Phone: 718.260.5205
- Fax: 718.254.8556
- E-mail: hgibbs@citytech.cuny.edu
Mission Statement of the African American Studies Department
The African American Studies Department is designed to bring into disciplinary focus, through inter-departmental and multicultural course offerings in Liberal Arts and Sciences, the history and culture of Africans and their descendents, throughout the diaspora from antiquity to the present. Readings and classrooms lectures bring research, critical analysis, synthesis, and interpretation to bear on the contributions of peoples of African descent to the genesis and the development of human civilization. African American Studies is fundamentally concerned with the stimulation of intellectual growth and the development of humanist principles.
