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About IRAAS
“Envisioning the academy as a site of critical engagement for social transformation. . .”
IRAAS is an intellectual community that bridges scholarship, teaching, and public life.
We envision the project of African American Studies as a multi-disciplinary enterprise. Our faculty
employ an array of theoretical approaches and methodological strategies to examine historical and
contemporary formations in black culture, politics, and society.
The Institute has a rich tradition of scholarship which capitalizes upon our unique location in New York
City, especially the dynamic community of Harlem. Currently, IRAAS engages in a broad program of
research and teaching that attends to the diversity of black experiences in the global diaspora.
IRAAS understands education to be a necessarily transformative endeavor. To this end, our mission is
threefold:
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To prepare students to become critical thinkers and global citizens;
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To facilitate and support innovative research (working groups, collaborative and individual
projects, and faculty/student grants);
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To disseminate knowledge through academic and public forums including IRAAS
“Conversations,” lectures, roundtable discussions, conferences, and new media platforms.
The Institute for Research in African-American Studies of Columbia University, founded in July 1993
by Dr. Manning Marable, is an academic resource center. The purposes and activities of the Institute for
Research in African-American Studies are grounded within the best scholarship of the black intellectual
tradition. Towards that end, the Institute administers the Undergraduate and Master's degree programs in
African-American Studies at Columbia University; regularly sponsors academic conferences, lectures
and forums on a wide variety of topics; produced the scholarly publication SOULS: A Critical Journal
of Black Politics, Culture and Society, which is distributed throughout the U.S. and internationally from
1995 to 2011.
Our address:
758 Schermerhorn
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Mail Code 5512
Columbia University
1200 Amsterdam
Avenue
New York, NY 10027
Telephone:
212.854.7080
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