历史哲学博士-非洲历史

范德比尔特大学的历史系继续在地理和主题上进行多样化，非洲历史是我们提供的最新博士学位领域。我们的非洲历史博士课程旨在培养同时拥有广泛而深刻的非洲过去知识的学者和教师。我们训练非洲的学术历史学家，他们以活跃于该领域的历史学，方法论和辩论为基础，但他们也认识并说明了非洲与世界其他地区和全球事件的联系。我们欢迎有前途的研究生提出申请希望对非洲过去的核心历史方法以及人种学方法进行严格的培训。将对研究生进行培训，挖掘和理解档案，口头，人种学，语言学和其他非常规资源，并利用非洲广阔的物质文化提供的线索来重建和审视过去
Vanderbilt University's History Department continues to diversify geographically and thematically, with African history being the latest doctoral field to be added to our offerings. Our doctoral program in African history is designed to produce scholars and teachers who possess a simultaneously broad and deep knowledge of the African past. We train academic historians of Africa who are grounded in the historiographies, methodologies, and debates that animate the field, but who also recognize and account for Africa's connections to the rest of the world and to global events.<br><br>We welcome applications from prospective graduate students who desire rigorous training in the core historical methodologies as well as in ethnographic approaches to the African past. Graduate students will be trained to mine and make sense of archival, oral, ethnographic, linguistic, and other unconventional sources as well as to utilize clues offered by Africa's vast material culture to reconstruct and interrogate the past. The goal is to develop our students into producers of new knowledge about Africa and effective teachers of African history.<br><br>Students can expect to be trained in the social, economic, and political histories of the continent while exploring themes as diverse as gender, technology, trade, religion, colonialism, nationalism, healing practices, slavery, intellectual production, among others. Students will be trained to appreciate the dominant dynamics of Africa's precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial histories while recognizing the parallels and overlaps between these periods. Our courses explore trans-regional patterns but also cover the peculiar historical features of particular regions.