Donald Carter, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Africana Studies
(dcarter@hamilton.edu) Donald Martin Carter, associate professor of Africana Studies, comes to Hamilton from the Department of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. He previously taught at Dickinson College and Stanford University. Carter received a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and is author of States of Grace: Senegalese in Italy and the New European Immigration, published in 1997. His research interests include culture theory, racial formation, visual culture, Diaspora, invisibility and transnational cultural politics.
Shelley Haley, Ph.D., Professor of Classics and Africana Studies
(shaley@hamilton.edu) A member of the Hamilton faculty since 1989, Haley's areas of interest are Roman literature and history; ancient Egypt; women's issues; and Africana studies. She earned a Ph.D. in classical studies from the University of Michigan. An expert on Cleopatra, Haley has appeared on the BBC's TimeWatch segment on Cleopatra, and was interviewed for The Learning Channel's series, "Rome: Power & Glory." She was a contributor to the African American Women Writers Series, 1910-1940 (1995) and has published articles in classical journals such as Historia, Classical World and Classica et Mediaevalia. Haley spent a month in South Africa in 1999, where she lectured on the classics as a foreign research fellow.
Haley served a four-year term as chief reader for the AP Latin Exam. As of July 1, she was appointed as the chair of the AP Latin Exam Development Committee. Haley has lectured nationally and internationally on the topic of increasing the representation of students of color in Latin, ancient Greek and classics classrooms. She has also lectured nationally and internationally on her research concerning the role of a classical education in the lives and careers of 19th century college-educated Black women. She published a chapter titled, "Lucian's 'Leaena and Clonarium'" Voyeurism or a Challenge to Assumptions?" in Nancy S. Rabinowitz and Lisa Auanger (eds.), Among Women: From the Homosocial to the Homoerotic in the Ancient World, Austin, TX: University of Texas Press (2002).
Haley was a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Washington University-St. Louis in November 2002, and participated in the Oxford Round Table in April, 2003.
Angel David Nieves, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Africana Studies
(anieves@hamilton.edu) Angel David Nieves joined the Hamilton faculty as associate professor of Africana Studies. He taught in the School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at the University of Maryland, College Park, from 2003-2008. Nieves completed his doctoral work in architectural history and Africana Studies at Cornell University in 2001. His forthcoming book, ‘We Shall Independent Be:’ African American Place-Making and the Struggle to Claim Space in the U.S. (University Press of Colorado, June 2008), examines African American efforts to claim space in American society despite fierce resistance. Nieves has published essays in the International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics, Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies, and in several edited collections, most recently in Black Geographies and the Politics of Place on Africadian (Afro-Canadian) forced removals. His digital research and scholarship have also been featured on MSNBC.com and in Newsweek. Nieves’ scholarly work and community-based activism critically engages with issues of memory, heritage preservation, gender and nationalism at the intersections of race and the built environment in cities across the Global South from New Orleans to Johannesburg, South Africa.
Nigel Westmaas, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Africana Studies
(nwestmaa@hamilton.edu) Nigel Westmaas, assistant professor Africana studies, joined the Hamilton faculty in 2006. He earned his master’s and Ph.D. from SUNY Binghamton and bachelor’s degree from the University of Guyana. He has published numerous articles in journals and magazines, including Against the Current, Small Axe, Emancipation Magazine and An Introductory Reader for Women’s Studies in Guyana.
The Africana Studies Department's emphasis on research and the senior project gives top students the opportunity to publish their work in scholarly journals and present it at research conferences such as the Caribbean Studies Association conference in Curacao. The department offers a course devoted entirely to research skills and methods.
Cultural Conversations
The emphasis in the department is on small classes, one-on-one student-teacher interaction and continual attention to writing and speaking skills. Participation and engagement are crucial in every Hamilton course, but they are especially valuable in the study of other cultures — culture is a conversation.
On the Cutting-Edge
Africana studies provides a window on some of today's most fascinating topics and emerging issues: world music; film and representation; gender, sexuality and feminism; and the blending of popular and political culture in hip-hop.
Intersections
The Africana Studies Department brings together distinguished faculty members from a range of disciplines and interests, from African philosophy and development to contemporary African-American political and social thought to classical history and literature. The interdisciplinary breadth of the department makes it not only a valuable and important major, but also an attractive minor for students seeking greater historical and cultural perspective in their own fields.
The Africana Studies Department's emphasis on research and the senior project gives top students the opportunity to publish their work in scholarly journals and present it at research conferences such as the Caribbean Studies Association conference in Curacao. The department offers a course devoted entirely to research skills and methods.
Cultural Conversations
The emphasis in the department is on small classes, one-on-one student-teacher interaction and continual attention to writing and speaking skills. Participation and engagement are crucial in every Hamilton course, but they are especially valuable in the study of other cultures — culture is a conversation.
On the Cutting-Edge
Africana studies provides a window on some of today's most fascinating topics and emerging issues: world music; film and representation; gender, sexuality and feminism; and the blending of popular and political culture in hip-hop.
Intersections
The Africana Studies Department brings together distinguished faculty members from a range of disciplines and interests, from African philosophy and development to contemporary African-American political and social thought to classical history and literature. The interdisciplinary breadth of the department makes it not only a valuable and important major, but also an attractive minor for students seeking greater historical and cultural perspective in their own fields.
The Africana Studies Department's emphasis on research and the senior project gives top students the opportunity to publish their work in scholarly journals and present it at research conferences such as the Caribbean Studies Association conference in Curacao. The department offers a course devoted entirely to research skills and methods.
Cultural Conversations
The emphasis in the department is on small classes, one-on-one student-teacher interaction and continual attention to writing and speaking skills. Participation and engagement are crucial in every Hamilton course, but they are especially valuable in the study of other cultures — culture is a conversation.
On the Cutting-Edge
Africana studies provides a window on some of today's most fascinating topics and emerging issues: world music; film and representation; gender, sexuality and feminism; and the blending of popular and political culture in hip-hop.
Intersections
The Africana Studies Department brings together distinguished faculty members from a range of disciplines and interests, from African philosophy and development to contemporary African-American political and social thought to classical history and literature. The interdisciplinary breadth of the department makes it not only a valuable and important major, but also an attractive minor for students seeking greater historical and cultural perspective in their own fields.
The Africana Studies Department's emphasis on research and the senior project gives top students the opportunity to publish their work in scholarly journals and present it at research conferences such as the Caribbean Studies Association conference in Curacao. The department offers a course devoted entirely to research skills and methods.
Cultural Conversations
The emphasis in the department is on small classes, one-on-one student-teacher interaction and continual attention to writing and speaking skills. Participation and engagement are crucial in every Hamilton course, but they are especially valuable in the study of other cultures — culture is a conversation.
On the Cutting-Edge
Africana studies provides a window on some of today's most fascinating topics and emerging issues: world music; film and representation; gender, sexuality and feminism; and the blending of popular and political culture in hip-hop.
Intersections
The Africana Studies Department brings together distinguished faculty members from a range of disciplines and interests, from African philosophy and development to contemporary African-American political and social thought to classical history and literature. The interdisciplinary breadth of the department makes it not only a valuable and important major, but also an attractive minor for students seeking greater historical and cultural perspective in their own fields.
AFTER HAMILTON
Hamilton graduates who concentrated in Africana Studies are pursuing careers in a variety of fields, including:
Financial Analyst, Lazard Capital Markets
Volunteer, U.S. Peace Corps
Ad Sales Analyst, Weather Channel
Assistant Project Coordinator, Democracy Program, The Carter Center
Donald Martin Carter, associate professor of Africana Studies, comes to Hamilton from the Department of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. He previously taught at Dickinson College and Stanford University. Carter received a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and is author of States of Grace: Senegalese in Italy and the New European Immigration, published in 1997. His research interests include culture theory, racial formation, visual culture, Diaspora, invisibility and transnational cultural politics.
Angel David Nieves joined the Hamilton faculty as associate professor of Africana Studies. He taught in the School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at the University of Maryland, College Park, from 2003-2008. Nieves completed his doctoral work in architectural history and Africana Studies at Cornell University in 2001. His forthcoming book, ‘We Shall Independent Be:’ African American Place-Making and the Struggle to Claim Space in the U.S. (University Press of Colorado, June 2008), examines African American efforts to claim space in American society despite fierce resistance. Nieves has published essays in the International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics, Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies, and in several edited collections, most recently in Black Geographies and the Politics of Place on Africadian (Afro-Canadian) forced removals. His digital research and scholarship have also been featured on MSNBC.com and in Newsweek. Nieves’ scholarly work and community-based activism critically engages with issues of memory, heritage preservation, gender and nationalism at the intersections of race and the built environment in cities across the Global South from New Orleans to Johannesburg, South Africa.
Nigel Westmaas, assistant professor Africana studies, joined the Hamilton faculty in 2006. He earned his master’s and Ph.D. from SUNY Binghamton and bachelor’s degree from the University of Guyana. He has published numerous articles in journals and magazines, including Against the Current, Small Axe, Emancipation Magazine and An Introductory Reader for Women’s Studies in Guyana.
