Tomorrow marks the first day of classes (although my classes don’t technically start until next week since my classes are on Tuesdays and Wednesdays). I’m really looking forward to this quarter’s classes because I think they will be directly relevant to the direction my project is taking. I’ll be taking:
Kris Peterson‘s “Theorizing Africa” (ANTH 289)
Main course readings include:
- Basma Abdel Aziz, The Queue (Melville House, 2016)
- Achille Mbembe, Critique of Black Reason (Duke University Press, 2017)
- Omolade Adunbi, Oil Wealth and Insurgency in Nigeria (Indiana University Press 2015)
Kris has stressed that this is less of an “Anthropology of Africa” course and more of an multi-disciplinary critical theory course. It’s catered to those who are studying Africa as much as it is catered to those who want to further their interest in radical theory and the de-centering of European/Anglo-American thought (regardless of your area of study). It also is geared toward thinking about how to scale research and writing in a way that can effortlessly cross disciplines and literatures while remaining grounded in anthropological principles (particularly of method). So this course is hopefully going to be an example of how to think and analyze across time, event, and theory.
Kavita Philip‘s “Science, Gender, Race & Empire” (HIST 290)
Main course readings include:
- Mona Domosh and Joni Seager, ed Putting Women in Place
- Sandra Harding ed The Racial Economy of Science
This course explores the interconnected histories of science, gender, race, and empire. I’ll hopefully know more but I’m looking forward to taking my first history course at UCI…
Angela Okune 
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