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Assistant Professor of Africana Studies Nigel Westmaas has been appointed to the editorial board of a new peer reviewed journal. The Journal of Race and Global Social Change (JRGSC) is “committed to the study of race, its social construction, and resistance within the global context.”
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Assistant Professor of Africana Studies Nigel Westmaas published a book review in the Fall 2012 issue of the Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History.
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Assistant Professor of Africana Studies Nigel Westmaas addresses Charles Dickens’ attitude to the non-white world in a commentary published in Pambazuka News, an online Pan-African website.
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A guest column written by Assistant Professor of Africana Studies Nigel Westmaas was published Dec. 19 in the Stabroeck News (Georgetown, Guyana). “Knowing Our Past: Current demonstrations and histories of public protest in Guyana” appeared in the paper’s weekly “In the Diaspora” column and focused on the reaction of state media, pundits and government spokespersons to the protests that followed Guyana’s recent elections.
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Assistant Professor of Africana Studies Nigel Westmaas was a guest on WFRG Radio Free Georgia to discuss the national elections in Guyana and the Congo.
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Nigel Westmaas, assistant professor of African studies, has co-written (with Juanita De Barros from McMaster University) an historical commentary on British Guiana (Guyana) that records Marcus Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) work in the colony in the early 20th century.
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Assistant Professor of Africana Studies Nigel Westmaas was the guest speaker at a Caribbean Students Association-sponsored event at the State University of New York (SUNY) Cortland on April 27.
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Assistant Professor of African Studies Nigel Westmaas presented a paper at the National Association of African American Studies conference in Baton Rouge, La., on Feb. 14. His paper “Teaching Caribbean History in the North American Academy: Pitfalls, Pedagogy and Performance” discussed the strategic use of comparison in theme and topic, the content and design of effective syllabi, and the general classroom environment and receptivity in teaching Caribbean history in America.
On January 12, the first anniversary of the horrific Haitian earthquake, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies Nigel Westmaas was a guest on WRFG (Radio Free Georgia, Atlanta) 89.3.
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