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Andrew Apter
Andrew Herman Apter (born December 7, 1956) is an American historian, professor at University of California, Los Angeles, and Director of the African Studies Center. He was field director of Black Atlantic Studies, for the Social Science Research Council. Awards *2010 Guggenheim Fellow Works ''Beyond Words: Discourse and Critical Agency in Africa'' University of Chicago Press, 2007, ''Black Critics and Kings: The Hermeneutics of Power in Yoruba Society'' University of Chicago Press, 1992, ''The Pan-African Nation: Oil and the Spectacle of Culture in Nigeria'' University of Chicago Press, 2005, "Atinga Revisited" ''Modernity and its malcontents: ritual and power in postcolonial Africa'', Editors Jean Comaroff, John L. Comaroff, University of Chicago Press, 1993, "IBB = 419: Nigerian Democracy and the Politics of Illusion" ''Civil society and the political imagination in Africa: critical perspectives'', Editors John L. Comaroff, Jean Comaroff, University of Chicago Press, 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of California, Los Angeles
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Its academic roots were established in 1881 as a normal school then known as the southern branch of the California State Normal School which later evolved into San José State University. The branch was transferred to the University of California, becoming the Southern Branch of UC in 1919, making it the second-oldest of the ten-campus University of California system after the University of California, Berkeley. UCLA offers 337 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in a range of disciplines, enrolling about 31,600 undergraduate and 14,300 graduate and professional students annually. It received 174,914 undergraduate applications for Fall 2022, including transfers, making it the most applied-to university in the United States. The university is organized into the College of Letters and Science and twelve professional schools. Six ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
