Joyce Kirk

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