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Director Afro-American Studies: Dr. Zuberi
Dr. Zuberi’s research has focused on African and African Diaspora populations and the methods of analyzing human difference, developed in his books, Swing Low, Sweet Chariot: The Mortality Cost of Colonizing Liberia in the Nineteenth-Century (University of Chicago Press in 1995) and Thicker Than Blood: How Racial Statistics Lie (University of Minnesota Press in 2001). He has written more than 35 scholarly articles and co-edited two volumes. Dr. Zuberi co-edited a special issue of the December 2000 Black Scholar on Transcending Traditions: African, African Diaspora, and African American Studies in the 21st Century; and a special issue of March 2000 the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science on The Study of African American Problems: Papers in Honor of W.E.B. Du Bois. He currently directs two research projects: the African Census Analysis Project (ACAP) and the Interracial Contact and Social Stratification Project (ICSSP). Almanac, Vol. 48, No. 7, October 9, 2001 |
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Dr.
Tukufu Zuberi, professor of sociology, has been named the director
of the Afro-American Studies Program. At Penn since 1988, he has
served as chair of the Graduate Group in Demography (1995-1998),
and as Director of African Studies (1999-2000). He has also taught
at Mekerere University in Kampala, Uganda and the University of
Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. 
