The program's distinguished alumni continue to contribute to its international prominence. Alumni involvement is a vital part of the 60th anniversary's success.
Alumni Speaker Series
Every month, one member of our alumni community will give a lecture at Northwestern University.
November's featured alum is Ibrahim Sundiata
Dr. Ibrahim K. Sundiata is a professor at Brandeis University and a former chair of the Department of History at Howard University. In 2002-2003 he was a fellow at Harvard University's W.E.B. Du Bois Institute. He received his B. A. from Ohio Wesleyan University and his Ph.D. from Northwestern University. He is the author of Black Scandal: America and the Liberian Labor Crisis, 1929-1936 (1980) and Equatorial Guinea: Colonialism, State Terror, and the Search for Stability (1990) which won a Choice Book Award. His book, From Slaving to Neoslavery: the Bight of Biafra and Fernando Po in the Era of Abolition, 1827-1930 was published by the University of Wisconsin Press in 1996. His latest project, Brothers and Strangers: Slavery and the Black Zion was published in 2003 by Duke University Press and reviewed at Front List Books. In progress is Race Tracts: Sex, Gender, Class at the Turn of the Millennium, an examination of race and its intersection with other social signifiers.
Sundiata has been the recipient of Ford, Woodrow Wilson, and Fulbright Grants, and he taught at Rutgers University, Northwestern University, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and the Universidade Federal da Bahia. Dr. Sundiata is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Recently, Professor Sundiata has been awarded the Jeanette Lerman-Neubaur '69 and Joseph Neubauer Prize for Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring, 2004-2005.
See the Events Series for upcoming lectures.
How to Reconnect
If you are a PAS alum, we encourage you to participate in our anniversary! Please fill out the form below, and we will contact you about how you can get involved in PAS and the 60th anniversary celebration.
