Dear Rice community,
We are pleased to announce that Sherwin K. Bryant, a leading scholar of slavery and race and early modern African diaspora history, will join Rice University Jan. 1, 2024, as director of the Center for African and African American Studies and an associate professor in the Department of History.
Sherwin is an associate professor of African American studies and history at Northwestern University. He is the former co-director of the Andean Cultures and Histories Working Group in the Weinberg Center for Area and International Studies and is a former director of the Center for African American History.
Sherwin’s work explores the lives of people of African descent in Latin America, especially in the north Andean regions of what is now Ecuador and Colombia. You can read more about him and his work in Rice News.
As a scholar of Latin America, Sherwin expands the reach of CAAAS in exciting ways. We look forward to working with him to help the center grow its reach and profile on campus and beyond.
Please join us in welcoming Sherwin if you see him visiting campus this week.
Warm regards,
Amy Dittmar, Howard R. Hughes Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs
Kathleen Canning, Dean of the School of Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of History
Rachel Kimbro, Dean of the School of Social Sciences and the Herbert S. Autrey Chair in Social Sciences