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Joyce Kirk

  • Associate Professor Emeritus, African & African Diaspora Studies

Education

  • PhD, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Teaching Interests

  • African Americans in South Africa
  • Rites of Passage in Black Societies
  • The effects of HIV/AIDS on South African society
  • The Nature of slavery and its impact on American society
  • The roles of European and African civilizations in the emergence of distinctive patterns in African American culture and society
  • The position, roles and concerns of women in the historical evolution of the African world
  • The development of social and political institutions in the African world, as well as black urban and rural patterns over time

Research Interests

  • Sangomas (traditional doctors/healers), ritual and training in South Africa
  • Sangomas, STDS and HIV/AIDS Prevention in South Africa
  • African, African American women & HIV/AIDS prevention
  • The influence of HIV-AIDS on Families in South Africa
  • Rites of Passage and African American Transformation
  • African Americans and the Education Curriculum
  • African Americans in South Africa in the 20th/21st centuries

Selected Publications

Kirk, J. F.(2009) Bader Grant Annual Report, 2008-2009.10-12.
Kirk, J. F.(1999) Making a Voice: African Resistance to Segregation in South Africa.First Edition, 368. Westview Press.

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