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Inclusive Scholarship: Developing Black Studies in the United States 187 Reviewers’ Recommendations The department faculty members need to address gender inside and outside the classroom, as well as in their relations with the Gender Studies program; it was an important factor shaping the interactions and conflict around the Black Atlantic Seminar. Indeed, significant changes seem to have occurred since this review was initiated. In making final additions to this report, the consultant found that Maultsby and Burnim were no longer listed as faculty on the department’s Web site but are now listed as faculty in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology. Professor Valerie Grim remains a faculty member in the Department of Afro-American Studies. Staffing does seem as if it will be an issue in sustaining the master’s program. University of California, Berkeley The Project Entitled “African Diaspora Studies, Multiculturalism, and Identity Construction: The Development of a Comprehensive Multidisciplinary Framework,” the Ford project at the University of California at Berkeley had two primary components. The first involved the development of critical methodologies and analytical frameworks for African American Studies, particularly from an African diasporan perspective. The main institutional platform for this portion of the project was the Department of African American Studies new doctoral program, the initial year of which coincided with the first year of the Ford funding. The second component of the project involved the building and strengthening of networks within and without the university, as well as the allocation of support for scholarly resources on campus, technological and otherwise. Although the unit itself is called the Department of African American Studies, its new Ph.D. program has, by design, a decidedly African Diasporan orientation; one distinguished by a strong Caribbeanist strain. In addition, there has been a willingness to set this Diasporan focus within a comparative analytical framework—that is, within one informed by the recognition that the field of Diaspora Studies is not limited to scholarship
188 Inclusive Scholarship: Developing Black Studies in the United States on African populations. Accordingly, the faculty in African American Studies has been giving a great deal of attention in the 1990s to how such critical approaches to African American Studies, as a discipline, might be institutionalized—especially in terms of a graduate program. The Ford project was conceived, in part, to support efforts on this front. One practical manifestation of this approach was the attempt to nurture faculty and graduate student research, especially when it involved faculty-student collaboration. Three such joint faculty-student efforts were to be supported with allocations of $5,000 per year.A related component of the Ford project was the establishing of monthly faculty and graduate student working-paper colloquia on the theme “Multiculturalism, Identity, and Diaspora.” Modeled on the department’s St. Clair Drake Forum, these regular meetings were intended to enhance graduate student training,bring together faculty members with common research interests, and formalize links among three key units on the UCB campus: the Department of African American Studies, the Department of Ethnic Studies, and the Center for the Teaching and Study of American Cultures. Ford funds also provided for a graduate research assistant who could aid the members of the department in their work on this project. Finally, the project supported an African American Studies faculty seminar that focused on “doctoral program curriculum development” and that generated a four hundred page course reader. This Ford project reflected the department’s commitment to nurturing connections with individuals and academic units outside of Berkeley. Ford funding supported a “Conditions in the African Diaspora” lecture series that brought to campus two foreign scholars per year. The Ford grant also enabled the convening of “African Diaspora Studies on the Eve of the 21st Century,” a majorconferenceinthespringof 1998.Thisconferencewasproposedto“bring together scholars with disparate understandings of the field and with different theoretical and analytical perspectives in an attempt to begin to develop some comprehensiveunderstandingof AfricanDiasporaStudiesandwhatitencompasses.”Another important element proposed for this conference (as it applied to African American Studies) was the “coordination of the resources, efforts and offerings of all the campuses of the University of California.” This had already begun “through the formation of the African American Studies Inter-
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