16th April 2023 10:11:58 AM
2 mins readProf. Ato Quayson, a graduate of the University of Ghana, has been chosen to head the new department of African and African American Studies at Stanford University in the UK.After the institution's Board of Trustees accepts the establishment of a department and it is formally opened in January 2024, this is anticipated to occur.Ato Quayson is currently an English professor and the Jean G. and Morris M.
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Doyle Professor of Multidisciplinary Studies at Stanford.His areas of interest in research are urban studies, contemporary diaspora studies, and African post-colonial literature.Prof Quayson is said to have been a prominent contributor to the proposed department.
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According to Stanford’s website, he chaired the committee that issued a report with recommendations for its funding, staffing, faculty hiring, curriculum, and major and minor requirements.From his undergraduate studies at the University of Ghana, Prof Quayson took his Ph.D.
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from the University of Cambridge, after which he held a Junior Research Fellowship at Wolfson College, Oxford before returning to Cambridge to become Reader in Commonwealth and Postcolonial Literature in the Faculty of English from 1995-2005.He was also Director of the Centre for African Studies and a Fellow of Pembroke College while at Cambridge.
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Prior to Stanford he was Professor of African and Postcolonial Literature at New York University (2017-2019) and Professor of English and inaugural Director of the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto (2005-2017).In 2016 he was appointed University Professor at the University of Toronto, the highest distinction that the university can bestow.
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